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OpenAI advises simplifying skills and guardrails for the GPT-6 Astra model

Eric Provencher from OpenAI issued recommendations on 12. 9. 2026 on how to shorten skill descriptions, limit mandatory documentation reading in AGENTS.md and reconsider guardrails for the GPT-6 Astra model—according to the company, accumulated rules unnecessarily take up context and stop the model's work prematurely.

New: Eric Provencher from OpenAI issued specific recommendations for simplifying prompts and guardrails; Shorter and more specific prompts improve the performance of the GPT-6 Astra model; Unnecessary guardrails and blanket rules hamper performance; Skills are Markdown files containing instructions that are selected based on their descriptions; Long skill descriptions lead to poor selections and context for you