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A plug-in in the ChatGPT desktop app reads and searches your iMessage, SMS and RCS threads and sends messages through Messages on your behalf. By default nothing goes out until you approve both the text and the recipients. There is a switch that removes that step, and OpenAI's own documentation argues against using it.
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Both shipped on August 21 in public preview. Mention @GitHub in a channel and the agent triages issues, investigates failures, writes changes in a cloud sandbox and opens a pull request, with the conversation attached. The interesting part is not the capability list, which is familiar, but the room it moved into: the place where work gets discussed rather than written.
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Since August 14, auto mode is the default permission mode for new sessions on the Pro, Max, and Team plans. Instead of interrupting at every action, a classifier in the background lets safe actions through and stops risky ones. If you set a default mode yourself, it stays in force until you accept a one-time offer to switch, and a mode an organization mandates does not change automatically. One detail matters for your quota: the classifier calls auto mode makes no longer count against usage limits.
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