ChatGPT Dots Guides

Start with setup and eligibility, then learn how the cloud computer, channels, and approval controls work. Guides distinguish official documentation, attributed case studies, and editorial recipes.

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How to use ChatGPT dots

Set up your first ChatGPT dot on desktop or in the mobile app, connect apps, assign a first task, and understand approvals and plan eligibility.

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Control

ChatGPT Dots Auto-review: How Action Approvals Work

Understand how ChatGPT dots Auto-review checks planned actions, uses existing approval, and handles blocked steps and required confirmations.

Workspace

ChatGPT Dots Cloud Computer: Access and Permissions

Learn how a ChatGPT dot’s cloud computer, browser, optional local-computer access, and plugin permissions work, based on OpenAI’s documentation.

Control

ChatGPT Dots Controls: Custom Rules and Approvals

Understand ChatGPT dots Activity View, Custom Rules, approvals, and sensitive actions that require you to take over, using OpenAI’s published guidance.

Workflow

Dots Voice Notes to App Prototype: Build a Reviewable First Version

Turn a spoken idea into a scoped app brief, compare candidate approaches, and review a prototype with explicit checks and approval boundaries.

Product

How ChatGPT dots works with Chat, Work and Codex

How a ChatGPT dot starts work in Codex, continues existing threads, uses ChatGPT and Codex context, and reviews or edits Scheduled Tasks in ChatGPT Work.

Case study

How Sam Altman Uses Dots: Two Workflows Worth Testing

An attributed reading of Sam Altman’s Every interview, with practical starting points for morning briefing, email triage, and voice-to-prototype work.

Setup

How to create a ChatGPT dot on mobile

You can now create a ChatGPT dot in the iOS and Android app. Steps, what you can set up on your phone, who is eligible, and what still needs a computer.

Access

Is ChatGPT dots free? Pricing and availability

Who can get ChatGPT dots: Pro, Business Premium and Enterprise beta, 18+, region limits, the first-month usage note, and whether Plus is included.

Workflow

OpenAI Dots Morning Briefing and Email Triage: A Practical Guide

Build a reviewable morning summary and urgent-message policy with named sources, quiet hours, copyable prompts, and manual checks.

Safety

Safety, sign-in, and data

OpenAI describes GPT-6 Astra’s scope, secure sign-in, training controls, and read-only proactive research.

Organizations

Specialist dots for organizations

OpenAI describes specialist dots as organization-owned agents in focused enterprise pilots, plus work with Microsoft on Agent 365.

Channels

Where ChatGPT dots works

Desktop app, desktop web, iOS and Android apps, Slack and Teams: where you can create and use a ChatGPT dot after the October 2026 mobile update.

Access

Why ChatGPT dots isn't showing for you

Not seeing ChatGPT dots? Check plan, age, region and rollout, update the mobile app, and learn which OpenAI pages are newer after the Oct 9 update.