OpenAI publishes guide to rework skills and prompts for GPT-6 Astra, with self-audit prompt
udmrzn · x · 2026-09-13
OpenAI's developer team released a guide on revisiting skills, AGENTS.md, and task prompts for GPT-6 Astra. Key point: defensive instructions written for older models can now cause unnecessary work — e.g., reading all architecture and deployment docs for a typo fix — or make the model stop before finishing a task.
Recommendations:
- Make skill triggers specific and load guidance only when relevant
- Define what "done" looks like
Voxyzai shared a ready-to-use prompt: send the guide link to Astra and ask it to audit your AGENTS.md and Skills for overly broad triggers, mandatory doc reads, redundant checks, conflicting instructions, and confirmation stops — quoting each issue and suggesting the smallest fix.
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