commentary channel is like a tool call without output, without the round trip cost.
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commentary channel is like a tool call without output, without the round trip cost. and you can prompt the model to use commentary channel like this. As a PoC, I now have a prompt asking codex to prefix every commentary with a tag, which makes it much easier to keep track of what's happening with a quick glance. You can parse these structured text and render it in the harness UI. Extending this, it should be possible to do some actual tool calls that don't require output to the model. combined with steering messages for optional feedbacks, it's practically the same functionality as the asy
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