OpenAI pairs its GPT-5.6 public rollout with ChatGPT Work, a new agent that handles entire workflows

OpenAI is launching ChatGPT Work, an agent-based product powered by Codex and the now publicly available GPT-5.6. The agent can independently handle complex projects across apps like Google Drive, Slack, and Salesforce.

About two weeks after the Trump administration restricted GPT-5.6 access to select organizations, OpenAI has now gotten approval for a public rollout. The company is also introducing a new product called ChatGPT Work for mobile, web, and desktop. OpenAI describes ChatGPT Work as an agent inside ChatGPT that can operate across apps and files, work for hours on complex projects, and deliver finished outputs like an Excel or Word document based on a given task.Ad The product builds on Codex technology, which until now has mostly been reserved for developers. The new app is likely a step toward merging ChatGPT and Codex into a single “super app.”AdDEC_D_Incontent-1 Plugins are back, and this time the models might keep up The biggest addition in ChatGPT Work is a new “Unified Plugins Directory” that bundles third-party integrations in one place. At launch, the directory includes Google Drive, SharePoint, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Gmail, Outlook, Salesforce, Adobe, Zoom, LinkedIn, GitHub, Canva, and Dropbox, among others. Users can call on specific plugins with an “@” mention or let ChatGPT figure out which data source is relevant on its own. The approach echoes OpenAI’s failed plugin push from 2023. OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman recently admitted that those plugins “didn’t work at all because the models weren’t ready.” With GPT-5.6 behind it, OpenAI expects a different outcome this time.Ad According to OpenAI, ChatGPT Work can handle entire workflows from a single prompt. One example: turning customer research into a campaign brief, generating marketing assets from it, and adapting them for different markets, all while keeping context across every step. From the announcement, it’s hard to tell what’s actually new. Many of the featured functions, like Scheduled Tasks, plugins, or Computer Use, already exist in ChatGPT or Codex, and ChatGPT could already handle long tasks and connect data sources before. Similar to Anthropic’s shift from Claude Code to Cowork, this looks moslty like a rebrand of Codex for knowledge work with local file access, as long as users run the desktop app. Anthropic also just launched Cowork for web and mobile, likely a preemptive move because they knew ChatGPT Work was coming.AdDEC_D_Incontent-2 On security, OpenAI points to an “Auto-Review” feature where advanced models check important actions before they run. OpenAI says Auto-Review blocked 100 percent of attempts to extract protected data during adversarial red-teaming.Ad On web and mobile, Pro, Enterprise, and Edu users get access to ChatGPT Work first. OpenAI says Plus and Business customers will follow in the coming days.