Unofficial community guide
OpenAI Dots
An independent guide to the Dots AI agent — the computer, Slack, and email people expect it to use, and which parts OpenAI has actually published.
Cover: Round saved in this browser, shown on every guide page.
The Dots AI agent, in one paragraph
People say “Dots AI agent” when they want a name for an OpenAI agent that finishes a task instead of stopping at a paragraph. The picture is stable even when the name is not: a ChatGPT thread, a computer with a shell, files, and a browser, a way to meet the agent in Slack, and a wish to meet it in email.
A chat window answers. An agent keeps a goal, chooses a tool, looks at the result, and either stops for a person or takes another step. Once that loop can touch a filesystem or a message someone else will read, the design work is permission, not personality.
- Dots agent VM A computer the agent can work on: a shell, files, and a browser, with a log you can read afterwards. How it is discussed
- Dots in Slack Meeting the agent in a channel your team already uses, with shared authentication on purpose. How it is discussed
- Dots and email Triage and drafts people hope for — with sending kept behind a person. How it is discussed
Five guides, one map of OpenAI Dots
Each guide carries one question, in English and in Chinese. Start with the definition, then follow the links.
- 01 What is OpenAI Dots? A working definition, plus Dots vs Muse and Dots vs Grok Bot. Read guide
- 02 OpenAI Dots features The Dots agent VM, Slack, email, and the controls around them. Read guide
- 03 OpenAI Dots pricing Why there is no official price yet, and where ChatGPT Pro fits. Read guide
- 04 OpenAI Aeon, orbit & O agent The aliases people search alongside Dots, in one glossary. Read guide
- 05 OpenAI Dots templates Community agent briefs that say when to stop. GitHub sign-in. Read guide
Facts from OpenAI. Guesses labeled as guesses.
When a feature is documented, this guide links OpenAI’s page and uses OpenAI’s scope. When it is not, the sentence says “community.”
Published by OpenAI
Cite these for documented behavior.
Community reading
Useful for orientation. Not a specification.
How to read this site
How to read this OpenAI Dots guide
dotsbase is a community guide, not an announcement, a changelog, or a support channel. OpenAI has published other agent surfaces — workspace agents in ChatGPT, and hosted sandboxes on the Agents API — and those pages are the documents to trust when they cover a feature. Dots, as used here, is the word communities reach for when those documents do not yet answer the whole question: what would a personal or team agent from OpenAI feel like if it had a machine and a mailbox?
Facts may change. A setting that is discussed this month can be renamed, narrowed, or never shipped. When the guide describes Dots, it says “community” in the sentence. That word is doing real work: the sentence is a reading of public discussion, not a specification you can file a bug against.
This site will not invent an official price. ChatGPT has its own published plans on OpenAI’s pricing page. As of 29 September 2026, OpenAI’s help center describes ChatGPT Pro at $100 and $200 a month, and says new sign-ups to the $200 plan were paused on 10 September 2026. Those are ChatGPT figures. The OpenAI Dots pricing page repeats them only so they are not quietly recycled into a Dots price.
It will also not dress up a guess as a badge, a stamp, or a private build number. Internal field names, private screenshots, and request paths do not appear here. If a thread says Aeon, orbit, or O, the OpenAI Aeon, orbit, and O agent glossary shows how this guide talks about those words — as searches, not as a client manual.
A practical ten-minute path
- Read the working definition in What is OpenAI Dots and toggle the Dots vs Muse vs Grok Bot table.
- Open OpenAI Dots features and tick only what you would actually turn on. A ticked box is a preference, not a promise.
- Move the slider on OpenAI Dots pricing. None of the four cards states a Dots price. That silence is the point.
- Sign in on OpenAI Dots templates for briefs that tell an agent when to stop.
When the public story changes
Update your reading before you update your workflow. If OpenAI publishes a price, a client, or a rename, the community layer here becomes a historical note and the published page becomes the source. The checklist lives in localStorage so it cannot be mistaken for an account setting; the pricing slider is unitless on purpose.
The Chinese edition is at OpenAI Dots 中文指南, with the same routes under /zh/. Your cover, checklist, and pricing guess are saved per browser, not per language.
OpenAI Dots FAQ
Is OpenAI Dots an official OpenAI product?
This guide has not found an OpenAI product page that uses the name Dots. “OpenAI Dots” is a community name for an OpenAI agent with a computer, Slack, and email. The agent surfaces OpenAI has published are workspace agents in ChatGPT and hosted sandboxes in the Agents API.
What is the Dots AI agent?
In community use, the Dots AI agent is an agent that keeps a goal, uses tools such as a virtual machine, Slack, and email, and stops for a person before anything is sent, paid, or deleted. The What is OpenAI Dots page gives the full working definition.
How much does OpenAI Dots cost?
No official Dots price is published. ChatGPT plans have their own prices on OpenAI’s site, and those are not a Dots price. The pricing page on this site shows only labeled community guesses about plan shape, with no amounts.
Is dotsbase affiliated with OpenAI?
No. dotsbase is an unofficial community site and is not affiliated with OpenAI. Facts link to OpenAI’s own documents; anything else is labeled as a community reading.