Why Using Astra Inside Claude Code Is the New Meta (& How To Do It)

A user has found that integrating "Astra" as the main model within Claude Code significantly improves orchestration, noting its ability to adhere to plans, handle redirects efficiently, and effectively delegate tasks to subagents. This integration is achieved via a local proxy plugin, "model-gateway," which routes GPT requests to OpenAI and other requests to Anthropic, allowing for flexible mixing of models like Astra orchestrating Opus subagents or Opus orchestrating GPT-5.6 executors.

This report details a novel method for integrating OpenAI's Astra with Claude Code, unlike previous approaches that typically keep these platforms separate.