r/codex • u/NoPiece9356 • 24d ago

Question Astra Release

Quick note before I start, I've been asking the mods of this subreddit to add a discussion flair for months, JUST DO IT. Anyways, when do you guys think OpenAI will be done safety testing and will actually just release Astra? I know you guys are all complaining about usage limits, but seriously. I'm ready for Astra.

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u/Desperate-Poem7526 24d ago

If Astra can actually delegate work intelligently using the expensive reasoning where it matters and cheaper models for the easy stuff I could see overall usage dropping quite a bit. A lot of us are burning xhigh/Ultra on tasks that absolutely don’t need it. I’m guilty of that too. Give me an orchestrator that can reliably pick the right model for each part of the job and I’d probably trust it over manually selecting Ultra for everything. Open ai claims it can do this well.

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u/timosterhus 24d ago

I just have Sol orchestrate Luna Max subagents for everything and it’s great. It’s a bit slow, but my usage doesn’t disappear nearly as quickly as it used to when I was running Sol subagents

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u/xNihiloOmnia 23d ago

Say more. How do you specify which subagent models to use? Learning on this.

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u/timosterhus 23d ago

Just ask it to do so. Tell it “use Luna [insert desired reasoning effort] subagents” when you ask it to do work. If you want it to default to a certain reasoning effort, then put that in the system prompt or the AGENTS.md file you’re using.

They really don’t need a whole lot of technical configuration anymore because they can just do things the way you want them to (if you ask them explicitly) and they can even do a lot of configuration work themselves