OpenAI Workspace Agents

OpenAI Workspace Agents are Codex-powered agents in ChatGPT for shared team workflows that run in the cloud across files, apps, skills, schedules, Slack, memory, and approvals.

Key facts

• Type: Team agent product inside ChatGPT
• Maker: OpenAI
• Availability in source: Research preview for ChatGPT Business, Enterprise, EDU, and ChatGPT for Teachers plans ^[src-084].
• Core capability: Build a team workflow in natural language, connect apps and skills, preview the run, then schedule, share, or deploy the agent in ChatGPT or Slack ^[src-084].
• Example workflows: Meeting prep, software procurement review, lead outreach, product feedback routing, and weekly metrics reporting ^[src-084].
• Memory model: Each agent can keep a persistent file system for notes, contacts, outputs, and reusable state; memory is scoped per ChatGPT user instance or per Slack channel ^[src-084].
• Governance: Builders choose tools, data access, app permissions, schedules, approvals, and sharing; enterprise admins can control who builds, publishes, and uses agents ^[src-084].

Product pattern

Workspace Agents make the "agent as team member" idea concrete. Instead of a custom GPT that answers a prompt, the agent can work across Google Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Slack, Jira, Linear, web search, code, and skills, then preserve its trace and output for audit or reuse ^[src-084].

Related

• See also: OpenAI, Codex (OpenAI)
• Concepts: Codex Automations, Enterprise Agent Governance, Agent Security Boundaries, Human-Agent Collaboration, Everyday Agentic Work

Source references

• ^[src-084] OpenAI Codex, Workspace Agents, Prompt Caching, and Superintelligence Policy cluster (2026-02-09 to 2026-05-08)