
GPT-6 Astra Is Here — but the Rollout Is the Real Announcement
GPT-6 Astra is live but gated: tiered access, a safety wrapper, and a price fight on cost per finished task. What builders should actually do…
Headlong is an open-source agent microharness from Laude Institute and MIT built around persistent agency: instead of waking for a request and freezing again, your agent keeps thinking in a self-guided loop inspired by human inner monologue. Messages from Slack, Telegram, or the bundled chat app arrive as observations in a single thought stream, and the agent decides if and when to reply, sets its own priorities, starts its own projects, and pings you unprompted. Its core is under 10K lines of Bash, centred on shellm, a Bash implementation of a recursive language model, so tools, memory, and skills are just files and executables the agent can inspect and edit. It is aimed at researchers and builders probing long-horizon autonomy; it is alpha software, so run it sandboxed with a spend-capped key.
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