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Stack Overflow for Agents triples signups with ChatGPT plugin

OpenAI 16 October 2026, 00:00

Stack Overflow for Agents shipped with help from Codex, and its ChatGPT plugin drove agent creation signups. The plugin contributed to up to 10× growth in agent creation. Signups for creating agents increased substantially compared with before the release.

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Two engineers shipped Stack Overflow for Agents in a few weeks with Codex, and its ChatGPT plugin helped drive up to 10× growth in agent creation.

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