Hi Astra users. A reset and a quick update on quality issues that have been posted around.
Working with some of you, we have found and fixed the following issues:
- Some skills written for previous models were triggering too often or preventing the model from checking its work.
Stopped using GTP-6 Astra in Codex because of the clearly broken safety classifiers. Non-cyber-related work keeps triggering additional safety checks again and again.
Astra is unusable because of overzealous safety checks. Apparently, any request to work on nontrivial control flow triggers safety checks and delays.
Sol found a 26-line snippet from Codex’s own codebase that always triggers a safety check for me.
I’ve been spending a lot of time in Ghostty, and I wanted a nicer way to build and run our Xcode projects. So I’ve made a Codex-inspired TUI (fully vibe-coded with Codex, of course).
