Astra steering is seriously delayed compared to Sol

What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?

Version 26.901.51231

What subscription do you have?

Pro 200

What platform is your computer?

Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.26200.0 x64

What issue are you seeing?

I noticed steering is super delayed to get to the agent during work compared to Sol. It does respond, but sometimes i've seen it take minutes before it finally registers it. I know you all did some improvements around some of the steering and parallel work capabilities. So maybe just see if there is a way to improve the priority notification of those steered messages because there are times I need to hurry and warn my agent they are about to hit auto-compaction and it just keeps working instead of pausing and preparing for compaction during work.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Just have the agent doing a run of work. And then try and steer it and see how long it takes for it to respond. Figured it might be due to the type of work too where some work is harder to get in front of the agent without risky interruption. but if it can find a sooner way to have a safe pause to read the steer instruction sooner, that would be great.

What is the expected behavior?

Sees the steer instruction as soon as possible to find a save point to pause or address the message.

Additional information

No response

Reproduce the delay by steering an agent during a run, then trace how steering messages are delivered and how the agent reaches a safe pause. Done means steering is registered as soon as practical, including when work is approaching auto-compaction, without unsafe interruption.