Rethinking skills and prompts for GPT-6 Astra: old agent scaffolding is fading
EyalToledano · x · 2026-09-05
The post points to an article titled Rethinking skills and prompts for GPT-6 Astra: coding-agent best practices are changing fast, and what once required heavy handholding and scaffolding no longer does.
- If you've used agents over the past year, you've likely accumulated bloated instructions meant to steer weaker models
- With each model release, more of that steering scaffolding becomes redundant, and the way skills and prompts are organized needs rethinking
Related event: OpenAI Codex member calls for rethinking skills and prompts for GPT-6 Astra(5 posts)→
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