GPT-6 Astra's quiet superpower: persistent notes and searchable context across windows
VraserX · x · 2026-09-04
The author argues GPT-6 Astra's most important feature may be the least flashy: it preserves notes across context windows and can search earlier context instead of repeatedly compressing everything into summaries. For long-running agents, this is a major step toward AI that actually accumulates state over time.
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