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Rethinking skills and prompts for GPT-6 Astra | OpenAI Developers

Sep 11, 2026
Rethinking skills and prompts for GPT-6 Astra | OpenAI Developers
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This post details how to rethink skills and prompts for GPT-6 Astra, focusing on improving agentic workflows. It introduces best practices for writing concise and context-aware skill descriptions, emphasizing progressive disclosure and avoiding overly specific guidance. It also provides updated guidance for `AGENTS.md` to reflect GPT-6 Astra's improved judgment, suggesting adjustments to decision boundaries and persistence instructions to better align with the model's capabilities and desired task completion.

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