How do I use ChatGPT dots

A ChatGPT dot is an agent designed to keep working on responsibilities over time. You can give it a project to follow, then return with a change or a decision without treating every conversation as a new job.

Start with a small project whose progress you can inspect. A workshop plan with a few deadlines is easier to assess than handing over every unfinished task you own.

1. Check whether your account has access

OpenAI’s dots overview describes a gradual rollout. The currently documented personal Pro rollout excludes the UK, EEA and Switzerland. Business Premium and Enterprise have different rollout conditions, and Enterprise requires administrator enablement.

Check the current access section before troubleshooting a missing button or changing subscriptions. Even an eligible account may not receive a gradual rollout immediately.

2. Create your dot

Follow the introduction in the ChatGPT mobile app, desktop app or desktop browser. The setup guide says mobile web is not supported.

You can choose a name and connect relevant plugins. Connections can be added later. If the first job uses a plan you supply, decide whether it needs another account at all.

The optional connection to your own computer is separate from app connections. OpenAI says local-computer work needs that computer online with the ChatGPT app open. Your dot also has a cloud computer for work that does not need your device.

3. Give it one responsibility

Try a request like the following with a non-sensitive plan.

Help me organise this workshop until 14 November. Use the supplied plan to track unresolved decisions and deadlines. Keep an updated checklist. Draft reminders for my review, but do not send messages or make bookings.

Read the first checklist against the plan. If a venue is provisional pending payment, it should not appear as confirmed. Ask the dot to preserve that condition.

For a timed update, specify when and where you want it, including the time zone and an end date. Ask it to confirm what was set up, then inspect the schedule. An agreeable reply is not the same as an established recurring task.

4. Check activity and action requests

The controls guide describes Activity for delegated work and Scheduled for recurring tasks. Use those views to inspect what is happening.

Read an action request before approving it. A reminder draft is not permission to send to everyone in a channel. Check the audience as well as the text.

OpenAI describes optional custom rules as instructions the dot tries to follow, with the possibility of mistakes. They are separate from app permissions. Do not treat a rule written in conversation as an infallible technical barrier.

Use AI Passport for context you want to reuse

AI Passport holds selected personal context that connected assistants can use with your permission. You might keep a workshop-writing preference asking for unresolved decisions at the top of an update.

Save it through an assistant with a supported Passport connection, then check the proposal before approval. The benefit is reusing that preference when another permitted assistant helps prepare speaker notes or a project brief.

Do not assume connecting Passport in a ChatGPT conversation automatically connects every dot workflow. Use the supported plugin route actually offered in your dot’s account, if available, and review its consent separately.

Otherwise, retrieve the approved preference through your connected assistant and copy a short relevant brief into the dot’s task. That is a manual handoff, not automatic shared memory. Keep the live workshop plan separate so an old preference does not become the source of a current deadline.

5. Stop the right work when the project ends

OpenAI distinguishes pausing the main task from stopping delegated tasks and cancelling schedules. Check each responsibility you want to end. Closing a conversation does not establish that all background work has stopped.

Keep the useful result, then review connections that no longer serve a purpose. Stopping work does not undo a message already sent. The same applies to a preference copied from Passport into a task, which remains subject to the receiving service’s handling.

After one complete project, you will have a better basis for deciding what to delegate next. Look at whether the dot kept the plan accurate and how much correction it required, rather than how confidently it reported progress.