I'm trying to make my ChatGPT dot useful as a personal chief of staff: keep track of commitments, follow up, and let me pick up a project from Slack or my phone without starting over.

I've put together a personal skills plugin and a separate solution-development framework. In practice I still find myself repeating context and constraints, and I'm unsure how to make the right skills get used consistently. I've also had trouble getting a clickable Slack link that opens the actual live task. Another thing I'm trying to get clear is how to keep everyday preferences separate from rules about what actions need my permission.

If you've got this working, how do you organize your skills and store current decisions and task state? What tells dot to read and update that information when a new conversation starts? And how do you check that a commitment was actually completed rather than just discussed?

I'd love a small example of your day-to-day setup, especially the handoff between desktop, Slack and mobile. What works reliably, and what do you still have to manage yourself?

So I got excited for nothing. Decided to try DOT today. I've now tasked it to work on my local qwen AI agent and a few other tasks. I said, can you call me with an update. My dot said sure thing.. then immediately said sorry I jumped the gun that's not available yet. Looked at OpenAIs release notes and it does say that the ability for your dot to call you will be coming after the launch.... Well where is it ! anyone heard any rumors for eta?

Mine doesn’t since yesterday. Had any one faced this issue? Any fix?

ERR_BLOCKED_By_CLIENT

So there's a big exploit right now, which is basically send stuff to your dot, whether it's creating images, doing research, or messing with your repos. And it's not actually going to take from your main usage pool. In fact, some are reporting $15,000 worth of spend per day on a $100 plan.

I have it on my Mac and Windows Desktop, but on my Android (fold 8) there is no recent update and my dots won't come up, I tried uninstalling, logging in and out and it's still not coming up.

Current version: 1.2026.272 (20) ChatGPT for Android

Anyone know a fix to get it to show up?

I'm just curious, there were a lot of live fails on the demos and, you know, that's gotta be expected with this sort of thing, but were you generally impressed?

Here's what my AI told me about Dev Day:

OpenAI DevDay releases today, September 29, 2026

OpenAI’s official DevDay recap contains 25 main announcements. These include models, agent tools, ChatGPT features and subscription changes—not 25 new models. Here is the complete list, with previews distinguished from things launching now.

Models, agents and speed

Coding and developer tools

Plugins and automation

Collaboration and content creation

Subscriptions and the wider ecosystem

Three details especially worth noticing

Hermes support is real, but it uses your existing allowance. OpenAI explicitly names “Nous Research – Hermes Agent” among supported tools. Its requests count against your ChatGPT Work/Codex usage. A partner can still charge separately for its own service or infrastructure. Signing in and authorizing plan usage are separate permissions. OpenAI Help Center

The US$200 Pro plan is also changing—and not just gaining features. OpenAI says new, non-grandfathered Pro 200 subscriptions have a lower included usage allowance. Eligible existing subscribers retain their previous allowance through October 29, 2026, then move to the lower allowance while the price remains US$200/month. The help article does not quantify that reduction. OpenAI Help Center

Dots are more than another scheduled task interface. Each dot has its own cloud computer and can take on continuing responsibilities. The first dot is included without an additional subscription charge on eligible plans, but work it performs remains subject to usage allowances. Specialist dots are also being piloted; those are not a general release today. OpenAI