AI Plugins
Covers the plugin model in AI apps: how ChatGPT plugins, GPT Actions, and Coze plugins extend capabilities, who controls permissions, and where the real boundaries with function calling and MCP lie.
AI plugins are one way to extend AI apps: ChatGPT plugins, GPT Actions, and Coze plugins all fit—capabilities packaged and distributed by the platform, installed on demand. They sit at a different layer than function calling and MCP: function calling is the developer's model-invocation mechanism, MCP a cross-platform connection protocol, plugins the user-facing 'capability store'.
