ChatGPT Agent (formerly Operator)

The consolidated agentic mode that merges the old Operator browser, Deep Research, and the conversational model into one. It runs in a sandboxed virtual machine with a visual browser, text browser, terminal, and file access, can connect to Gmail and GitHub, fills forms, edits spreadsheets, and pauses for credentials or consequential actions.

• Sandboxed VM with visual browser plus terminal you can watch live
• Connectors for Gmail, GitHub, and document repositories
• Pauses before consequential actions like sending email or making purchases
• Real-time narration of reasoning steps with interrupt and takeover
• Strong on multi-step research and analyst-style modelling tasks

• Pulling a competitor scan across ten UK supplier websites into one table
• Running a recurring weekly check on Companies House for named directors
• Filling out repetitive supplier onboarding forms from a master record
• Building a draft three-statement model from a target's filed accounts
• Booking travel from a brief and a corporate card without intervention

Still slow and brittle on real-world sites with cookie banners, anti-bot challenges, or non-standard layouts. Plus quota burns fast. Claude's Computer Use is now competitive on developer-shaped tasks. For high-volume scraping or structured automation, n8n plus a dedicated scraping service still wins.

Plus subscribers get circa 30 to 40 agent uses per month. Pro gets materially more capacity. Not available on Free or Go.