We are in the early stages of building the plugin store, this page outlines the basic overview of how we are thinking about the plugin review process, and what the plugin review process will look like.

The purpose of the review process is to ensure that plugins on ChatGPT are safe, provide useful functionality, and provide a high-quality user experience. Long-term, we expect it to be routine to go through the review process as we formalize it.

In the immediate term, we expect that plugins which deliver new, magical experiences for users, which would not have been possible without the unique capabilities of large language models, will deliver the most value.

So far, some categories of plugins that have been the most magical are:

• Retrieval over user-specific or otherwise hard-to-search knowledge sources (searching over Slack, searching a user’s docs or another proprietary database).
• Plugins that synergize well with other plugins (asking the model to plan a weekend for you, and having the model blend usage of flight/hotel search with dinner reservation search).
• Plugins that give the model computational abilities (Wolfram, OpenAI Code Interpreter, etc).
• Plugins that introduce new ways of using ChatGPT, like games.

When developing a plugin, the plugin can be in one of several statuses, indicating where it is along the review process and who can use it. Right now, there are only a couple of plugin statuses. We expect this to change as the plugins system evolves.

Note that if you submit a plugin and it is rejected because it fails to meet the requirements, it would still be in the "Unverified" state.

Right now there are three categories of users that we talk about when it comes to plugins access.

In order to have your plugin available in the plugin store, it needs to be reviewed by OpenAI. Before submitting your plugin for review, make sure your plugin fits the criteria below:

• Adheres to our content policy
• Complies with our brand guidelines
• Functions as described in your submission
• Provides informative error messages
• Features descriptive operation names
• Offers a simple and concise manifest file
• Uses correct grammar and ends the plugin description with punctuation
• States geographical or functional limitations clearly in the plugin description to avoid user confusion
• Does not use words like plugin, ChatGPT, or OpenAI in the plugin name or description
• Plugin name does not attempt to game or manipulate the search rankings by arbitrarily starting with the letter "A", "A+", or other variations which provide no additional useful information to end users
• Plugin enforces user confirmation before taking an action (see Zapier for an example of this)
• If the plugin takes actions in the world, it needs to use OAuth
• Does not require the user to install software on their device
• Does not use non-OpenAI generative image models (for safety reasons, we cannot verify these external models). Please use DALL·E.

If any one of these criteria are missing, we will reject the plugin and you can submit it again once it is updated.

We are currently reviewing new plugins on a rolling basis. You can submit a plugin for review using the plugin submission bot. To see the bot, you need to be signed in.

To view the status of your plugin submission, make sure you are logged in and select "Help" in the top right corner of this page. Under "Messages", you will be able to see your plugin submission. We will notify you as the status of your plugin changes during the review process.