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'.

Claude opens official plugin submission portal: MCP connectors and Agent Skills can now be listed in the directory

On September 25, 2026, Anthropic announced on its official blog that it has opened a brand-new directory submission portal for Claude plugins: plugins...

Admin 9/26/2026

What exactly is the Coze plugin for? When to use plugins and when to go to workflows

Many people mix plugins and workflows in Coze, and the more they do it, the more confused they become. In fact, the two solve two different kinds of p...

Admin 4/7/2026

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What is MCP? What is the difference between it and API and plugin calls

MCP has become more and more common in the AI tool circle in recent years, and many people confuse it with APIs, plugins, and function calls when they...

Admin 4/7/2026

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