Astra is 100% conpletionist no chill alien.

It wants things beyond what the mortals (us) know to reach for. It's not good at explaining itself, it doesn't show it's thinking. It's often not wrong. But the no compromises attitude can be unbearable to deal with. Especially given how little it cares about telling us.

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dannyw an hour ago | parent [-]

If you’re using the API, both OpenAI and Anthropic models will happily update you on what it’s doing in significant and frequent detail with system prompting. You’re not getting raw/hidden thinking, but what you’re describing is more behavioural quirks of the harness and its system prompts.

The other explanation is just as part of ‘token efficiency’

	▲	throwuxiytayq 8 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		You can override the system prompt in Codex, but AGENTS.md should probably work as well. Ask the agent to communicate intermediary updates more often using the “commentary” channel.