# OpenAI Dots

Level: connector. Last checked 2026-10-05.

OpenAI announced Dots on 2026-09-29. It works with the plugins and apps you have in ChatGPT, and its proactive work is read-only, with write actions following "ask before" rules.

On 2026-10-05 a user's dot in the Codex app used 0bridge through their ChatGPT setup. It listed 0bridge's tools and read through them. Asked to keep a quote in a Drive folder, it wrote the folder's `README.md`, changed a decision with the version it had read, and kept a record of the conversation in the folder. Drive shows its saves as made by ChatGPT. Chat-app history was off for that account, so it saved the conversation as a Drive file rather than with `bridge__session_save`.

## What to try

Set up 0bridge in ChatGPT first: [ChatGPT](/docs/clients/chatgpt). Dots then has it, with the same rules as ChatGPT: your connected services, Drive, memory on request, and history only while Chat history is on.

If Dots offers a place to paste an MCP URL, use `https://0bridge.dev/mcp` and sign in. If it only takes a URL and a token, use an app token: [Any MCP client](/docs/clients/any-mcp).

## Does Dots have a shell?

We don't know yet. If Dots runs shell commands on a computer of its own, the setup for [agent computers](/docs/agent-vms) could work there. Until someone confirms that it has a shell, we list it as unverified, and we don't say it works.

## Be careful with approvals

If you let Dots approve your coding agents' permission prompts through 0bridge, test it with something harmless first. Until we've seen it work, keep approving from the dashboard or a client you've tested.

## Your dev host from Dots

Dots supports MCP events (OpenAI's documentation names dots alongside Work chats). 0bridge offers three, for the supervisor agent on your own machine: a worker's question (`host.task.question`), a completed task and a failed one. With them a dot can hand work to your machine, tell you when a worker asks something, pass on your answer to that worker, and tell you when the task is done: [Dots and your dev host](/docs/dots).

As of 2026-10-05 this is tested only on a local copy of 0bridge with a stand-in for ChatGPT's receiver. We haven't seen a real dot subscribe to 0bridge's events or receive one. Until then, check with `bridge__host_status` or `bridge__host_questions` rather than waiting for a dot to tell you.

## Tell us

If you try it, tell us what you saw through the [contact form](/contact). We'll move this page to the level it earns, with the date.