Engineer Questions Astra Repeating Hidden Thinking Traces

Luka, an engineer at Castle.xyz, posted on X asking if others have noticed a pattern with Astra. The post describes statements from a hidden thinking trace appearing identically in the final reply. Luka suggests this may occur to save on full-pass tokens. The attached screenshot shows partial paragraphs in dark mode with visible text including browser testing, and review artifacts. The message frames the observation as a question to the community rather than a confirmed mechanism.