Documentary continuity answer · checked 8 October 2026 UTC
Before replacing an onboarding GPT link: establish teammate continuity
Change the controlled entry point last—not as proof that conversion worked. Preserve real work, establish replacement access, check the intended teammate’s installation/selection and compare useful familiar output.
Use the five-step onboarding-link decision and stop/fork →
The illustrative situation—and the decision
A creator has a published instructions/reference team-writing GPT in an affected Enterprise workspace. Intended teammates draft from supplied text with that creator’s real team-style reference and required format in ChatGPT web / Chat, reached through one creator-controlled onboarding document. This is not a supplied account, customer, task, reference, prompt/output or observed migration. Published does not necessarily mean publicly shared.
Four separate boundaries matter: preserved real work → replacement shared/permitted → intended recipient installed/selected → useful familiar output. Conversion alone establishes none of the last three. Our ordering of the controlled-document handoff is synthesis, not an official automatic old-GPT-URL redirect. Migration · creator Steps 1–4; Build plugins · testing / sharing.
What changes the next action
- Preserve before conversion: actual audience, instructions/files/template, useful prompts and good results, including a harder case; finish important edits. The original becomes read-only but is documented usable until retirement. This is a state distinction, not this workspace’s retirement date.
- Access and maintenance have owners: private replacement, direct Share plugins, Publish plugins to workspace and universal public listing differ. Use plugins, sharing, Available/Installed policy and web creator/editor prerequisites differ too. Ask the admin if blocked; naming a maintainer does not grant editing.
- Test the recipient route: intended destination, details/plus installation unless admin-installed, new ChatGPT chat and explicit
@plugin/skill selection. Creator access is not recipient evidence. - Compare the real outcome: same text/prompt/reference, saved good result, harder case and normal request. Check facts/style/format/reference use/completeness/time, not assumed model/tools/context equivalence. After adequate evidence, update the controlled destination plus install/select guidance, genuine prompt, maintainer and differences; review preserved/changed files and repeat saved tests after edits.
Missing required access/capability? Hold switching that workflow. An ordinary prompt, reusable skill/project, existing authorized integration or purpose-built solution may suffice; none is a tested drop-in here. Reference-only work needs no app connection. Actual integration dependencies/custom actions and outside audiences need separate verified scope, not an invented MCP rebuild. Migration · Switch after the workflow is ready; Plugin controls · capability chain.
Primary sources and comparison basis
- Moving your custom GPT workflows to plugins: Choose priority migrations; Review workspace permissions; Check installation and app access; Prepare your GPT; creator Steps 1–4; What happens to the original GPT?; Admin FAQ on access, behavior and retirement.
- Build plugins: Before you start / Permissions you need; Using a plugin; Test your plugin / Refine and retest; Edit an existing plugin; Share the plugin with your team; If you cannot create or edit a plugin.
- Plugins: Overview; Universal plugin directory; Install and use a plugin; Choose a specific plugin.
- Plugin controls: introduction; Understand the capability chain; Step 1: Enable plugin availability.
Four undated primary pages independently searched/opened and consequential sections read; snippets were not authority. Private-first/access/transfer limits reconfirmed; recipient route, owning permission/editor prerequisites and controlled handoff precision newly inspected relative to the saved short summary. Changed with evidence: none. Saved claim summaries are not complete comparable archives. No consequential new conflict found; prior conflicts were not refreshed or resolved.
Unfinished evidence is not a prohibition
Actual conversion, reach/sharing/access, installation/selection, reference use, useful output, maintenance/update/retest and alternative equivalence remain NOT RUN / UNKNOWN. No all-plan calendar, guaranteed old-link redirect, stable replacement URL, bookmark/article/fixed-QR repair or outside/public continuity was established. Updating an owned document does not establish those outcomes; absence of verification does not prove those features cannot exist. No account/workspace/host/portal operation, test, participant contact or media inspection occurred.
Only scoped continuity claims earn 8 October. CLI stays 7; public ZIP 6; host/dependency 5; annotations 4; checkout 3; endpoint/recorder 2; checker 1 October. Original 0.1.0 bytes, eight earlier reports, separate 33 checker / 49 recorder histories and ten actual-host NOT RUN cases remain unchanged/unrerun. Analytics disconnected means unknown usage, not zero readership. Missing genuine media prerequisites are not renderer failure. Research/editorial preparation is separate from Runtime validation, delivery and publication.