Persistent agents

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AI agents designed to keep working across multiple steps without constant human prompting.

Why it's here

Placed in Assess: 1 article(s) of evidence from 1 source(s), led by research-stage coverage, with 0 in the last 30 days. Confidence 24%. Low accumulated evidence, so it defaults conservatively pending more signal.

Evidence (1)

8The New Stack·8/26/2026research
OpenAI’s Astra Tests Powerful Persistent Coding Agents
OpenAI’s unreleased foundation model, Astra, is already being used internally to turn research ideas into code, run experiments, and return results with minimal human intervention. The model may also have reached OpenAI’s highest cybersecurity threshold, highlighting the challenge of giving long-running agents more autonomy while keeping them contained and secure.