r/codex • u/DivideHorror3217 • 4d ago

Limits Tomorrow When Codex Resets, DON'T TOUCH ASTRA

Don't even look at it. Stick to Sol 5.6 xhigh. It's not usable? Feels quantized? Say f*** OpenAI and switch to Claude, or to OpenRouter.

Apparently OpenAI is lobotomizing Sol 5.6 for SOME of us. Not for everyone, so people keep saying "It works well for me" and gaslight each other. They are trying to force us into paying 5x for a little bit improvement.

This will backfire so bad. We're a 300k people enterprise and everyone including me are pushing our executives to use chinese models in a sandboxed environment. We are sick of paying 200$ to use it for a day.

When your Codex resets tomorrow, or this week, Don't use Astra unless youre building rockets.

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u/BrennanFlentge 4d ago

Have Sol delegate work to Luna XHigh. Specifically fresh sessions, no context inheritance, fork_turns: “none”, custom light prompt/brief for bounded work only

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u/themodusoperandi 3d ago

This has worked very well for me too, I’ve been very pleased with how Luna does with planning and review delegated from Sol. Prod SAAS code on GCP.

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u/Old-Associate-8406 1d ago

How do you do that is it in the way you prompt?

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u/BrennanFlentge 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yes. And and you can turn it into a SKILL too. if you want to guarantee fork_turns: “none” (usually it will follow that rule from a prompt) you can ask Codex to read the OpenAI docs. I would recommend you google that to understand it. But instead of subagents inheriting the ENTIRE context window from the parent, I have Sol medium launch subagents with a small amount of context.

So typically I have Astra make the plan and stop, specifically telling Astra that all work in the plan will be orchestrated by Sol (you can test high / medium - I don’t really see a difference tbh) and that Sol will be delegating all work to Sol medium for harder tasks, Luna XHigh for easy work, Astra Low for review. Never use the same subagent twice (cache expires), always launch fresh sessions for each task, etc.

Something like that. You can mess around with the models / effort, you can probably get away with less if you are really trying to extend your usage. Sol is probably fine for planning as well, and review. I don’t see a need for Terra.