Codex launches Astra: notes persist across context windows without lossy summaries
CShorten30 · x · 2026-09-06
OpenAI introduced Astra, a new way for Codex to preserve and retrieve context when the context window fills. Astra keeps notes across context windows, preserving accumulated details instead of repeatedly compressing them into a single lossy summary — aimed at long-running coding agent tasks. Official post includes instructions on how to enable it.
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