OpenAI researcher: old Skills now hurt GPT-6 Astra — audit and clean up your AGENTS.md
udmrzn · x · 2026-09-06
- An OpenAI researcher's new article argues that as GPT-6 Astra has grown more capable, earlier Skills patterns like forced full-repo reads and frequent test runs have become context-bloating negative optimizations; coding-agent best practices are shifting fast.
- The post shares a copy-paste prompt for Codex: have the agent read the article, then re-audit all skills and AGENTS.md files under /Projects and remove outdated rules.
Related event: OpenAI Codex member calls for rethinking skills and prompts for GPT-6 Astra(5 posts)→
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