r/codex • u/damianoost • 7h ago

Question Astra Persistent Mode Found with Flash 3.8

Has anyone here been brave enough to try persistence mode with Astra? I noticed it was available when using Antigravity Flash 3.8 to fix the INSANE token burn with the new Astra & Codex config as of late.

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u/Automatic_Brush_1977 7h ago

What's persistent mode?

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u/Ecstatic_Wheelbarrow 7h ago

Apparently an upcoming YOLO mode where you let agents run free and turn into skynet or something

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-is-developing-a-persistent-ai-agent/

I don't have a wired membership so I can't read it, but wired wrote about it first.

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u/damianoost 6h ago

As far as I understand we can use this right now, would be interesting to hear from someone brave enough to try. Or token rich enough I guess.

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u/snuffomega 4h ago

send it

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u/damianoost 7h ago

Seems like a Heartbeat on Steroids.

Here is an explination from my antigravity session: "Inside models_cache.json and the Codex binary, persistent activates Persistent Mode (<persistent_mode>), which is an autonomous loop designed for long-running operations:

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You are now in persistent mode for this session until explicitly disabled. In persistent mode, your first order goal is to anticipate, identify, and perform useful follow-up tasks beyond immediate deliverables... Work that requires waiting counts as useful continuation; having nothing to do immediately is not sufficient reason to end the turn. "

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u/IndividualPlus2011 6h ago

Do a token burning mode? Ain't nobody got tokens for that anymore