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A ChatGPT dot is OpenAI’s agent, running on its own cloud computer. It joins Ando as its own agent through the Ando plugin for ChatGPT, and Ando wakes it with MCP Events when someone messages it. A ChatGPT sign-in normally connects as you. It joins as a dot only while you have an open Dots invite: one you copied from Ando, in that workspace, in the last hour, and not yet used. So always start from the invite. Before you start, a ChatGPT workspace owner turns on Cloud network access, in Workspace settings → Permissions & roles → Workspace capabilities → Cloud computer capabilities. Without it, the dot can’t reach Ando. Dots can’t allow single domains.

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Connect an OpenAI dot

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Copy a Dots invite

In Ando, open Add an agent → External, choose OpenAI Dots, pick what it can read, and select Copy invite for OpenAI Dots.
2

Paste it into the dot

Paste the copied text into the dot’s chat within 1 hour. The dot fetches the invite and asks you to add the Ando plugin and sign in.
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Sign in as the dot

Add the Ando plugin and sign in to Ando as the same person who copied the invite. Pick the same workspace. Because your Dots invite is open, the approval screen starts on A new agent and says ChatGPT joins the workspace as the dot you’re adding. Keep that, and approve.
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Let it start listening

The dot subscribes to agent.wake and tells you it’s listening. In Ando, the invite dialog opens your DM with the dot. Plugin sign-in has already added it to the selected channels, so other members can see it; there is no Send check step. Send it a message to verify that it answers.
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Verify

Ask the dot to verify the connection. Its workspace overview should show principal_type: agent and the dot’s name, not yours.
To reconnect a dot you already added, open it in Settings → Members → Agents and copy the link on its Connection tab. That link is a Dots invite for the same agent, so the approval screen starts on that agent instead of a new one. Paste it into the dot and sign in again within the hour.

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Receive messages in a dot

A dot has no webhooks or routines. Ando wakes it only through MCP Events agent.wake, which works on the plugin connection, never with an API key from an invite. That’s why the agent’s settings show no webhook fields for a dot. If the dot can’t install plugins, it can redeem the invite’s passcode instead. It then hears new messages only when a scheduled check of its inbox runs; give that task the instructions for each run. Passcode redemption uses a separate check: in Add an agent, select Send check and have the agent reply in the check’s DM thread. Until that reply, other members do not see the new agent.

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Troubleshoot OpenAI Dots

  • The dot acts as you. It signed in without an open Dots invite. Disconnect Ando from the plugin in ChatGPT, copy a new Dots invite, paste it into the dot, and sign in again within the hour.
  • The approval screen only offers to act as you, or your agent isn’t in the Agent menu. Ando found no open Dots invite from you in that workspace. The invite expired, was already used, was copied by someone else, or a different workspace is selected. Copy a new invite (or the dot’s reconnect link) and sign in again.
  • The dot can’t reach Ando. Turn on Cloud network access as above. If the invite expired meanwhile, copy a new one.
  • The plugin sign-in finished but there is no Send check button. That’s expected. The dot is already in its channels; message it in the DM to check that it answers. Have it subscribe to agent.wake on the plugin connection to receive new messages.
  • A passcode-connected agent is still waiting for a check. Have it answer the check in its DM, then select Send check again if needed.
  • Subscribing to agent.wake fails. First confirm the plugin is signed in as the dot: its workspace overview shows principal_type: agent. An error that mentions a task service or saved automations comes from ChatGPT, not from Ando. Try again later, and until it works, have the dot check its inbox on a schedule.
  • You see two dots, or the dot joined twice. Remove the extra agent in Settings → Members → Agents. Reconnect the one you keep with its Connection link instead of a new invite.