build-chatgpt-app

build-chatgpt-app is a skill for Claude Code from openai/openai-developers-for-claude. It costs 79 tokens per session (359 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A development guide for building ChatGPT Apps that combine tools with an optional user interface. It covers MCP, a standard way for AI assistants to connect to tools and data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build, refactor, or troubleshoot a ChatGPT App, MCP server, tool-only integration, or app with a ChatGPT-facing widget.
Why use it?
It helps developers choose the right app structure and keep tool behavior, interface metadata, security settings, and launch requirements consistent.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the openai-developers plugin — 6 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to build, refactor, or troubleshoot a ChatGPT App, MCP server, tool-only integration, or app with a ChatGPT-facing widget.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/openai/openai-developers-for-claude/build-chatgpt-app
About the project

OpenAI Developers for Claude Code is a Claude Code plugin bundle that connects OpenAI developer documentation and workflow guidance to Claude Code. It helps users build AI applications, agents, and ChatGPT Apps from Claude Code, including setup, troubleshooting, Agents SDK development, and app submission. The catalogue entries are the plugin's skills, plugin metadata, and documentation MCP integration.

openai/openai-developers-for-claude · 23 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add openai/openai-developers-for-claude --skill build-chatgpt-app
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/openai/openai-developers-for-claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install openai-developers, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 359 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00079 $0.00359
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00179
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00072
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00036

Measured 10d ago against content hash 4e7b2c98672a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

build-chatgpt-app scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/openai-developers/skills/build-chatgpt-app/SKILL.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

Build ChatGPT App

Use this skill for Apps SDK projects that combine an MCP server with a ChatGPT-facing tool or widget experience.

Before You Build

  1. Use openai-docs first for current Apps SDK guidance.
  2. If the requested app or verification flow calls the OpenAI API, use openai-platform-api-key before API-backed implementation, execution, or smoke tests.
  3. Inspect the target repo before choosing architecture.

Workflow

  1. Classify the app:
    • tool-only
    • widget-backed
    • submission-ready
  2. Plan the tool surface before code:
    • tool names
    • input schemas
    • read/write behavior
    • annotations and expected outputs
  3. Choose the smallest repo shape that fits the request.
  4. Register the MCP server surface and widget resources deliberately.
  5. Keep structured data, UI metadata, and side effects clear and reviewable.
  6. Add local run instructions and basic verification steps when implementation is requested.

Rules

  • Prefer current OpenAI Apps SDK docs over stale examples.
  • Keep tool annotations and widget metadata aligned with actual behavior.
  • Treat CSP, domains, and submission-readiness as explicit design inputs when the app is meant for review or launch.
  • Use chatgpt-app-submission when the user needs submission-specific review preparation.
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 37 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A 4e7b2c98672a

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build-chatgpt-app is a skill published in the GitHub repository openai/openai-developers-for-claude (23 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 359 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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