Research log.
OpenAI’s plugins: a marketplace in the making?OpenAI is expanding its plugin ecosystem. A map of 4,142 catalog records shows its breadth; discovery, repeat use and publisher economics will determine what it becomes.Read the report →
MCP tool selection: getting called for the right requestWe tested five applications on flight-search requests. Trip.com was selected most often on the general questions. The results changed across tool-sourced question sets, and the counts left an important question open: when was a call actually appropriate?Read the report →
One description change, and a published ChatGPT app lost the first call in 9 of 10 chatsTwo flight-search tools live in the same ChatGPT conversation, one fixed request, 40 fresh chats. Changing nothing but the test connector's tool description moved the host's first call from 0 of 10 to 9 of 10, back to 0 when I put the old text back, and to 9 again with a description a real publisher could ship.Read the report →