Astra will remember your corrections — users demand a way to find and fix the bad ones
Any-Farm-1033 · reddit · 2026-09-04
OpenAI has confirmed that Astra, its long-running agent, will retain project state and user corrections across jobs. A Reddit post argues the hard part isn't remembering — it's making memories inspectable.
- Corrections age badly: "use UTC in this repo" belongs in durable memory, but "skip this flaky test today" should expire. Storing both identically makes behavior a week later impossible to explain.
- Users should be able to click a strange tool action, see which saved correction caused it, then inspect, re-scope, delete, or give it an expiration date. A memory screen that just says "learned your preferences" isn't enough.
- The author proposes durable instructions live in a project-owned store, replayed at run start, so history stays portable across model switches via gateways like TokenRouter.
Saving a correction is easy; finding the bad one six runs later is where the product earns or loses trust.
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