As developers, we are no strangers to the concept of AI agents.
We leverage powerful frameworks like LangChain and CrewAI to build sophisticated systems capable of reasoning and executing tasks. However, this has always required significant engineering effort, from selecting tools and writing custom code to managing complex states.
But what if we could leverage this powerful agentic capability without writing a single line of code? Introduced on July 17, 2025, this is the promise behind OpenAI’s new ChatGPT agent, a major update integrating autonomous task execution directly into the familiar ChatGPT interface. This is not a new SDK for us to build with, but a ready-to-use tool that anyone can use direct using plain English prompting.
The agent is a powerful evolution of OpenAI’s previous research, unifying the web-browsing and interaction skills of