--- title: ChatGPT Work and Codex now sync projects, chats, skills,... description: OpenAI has added a sync feature to ChatGPT Work and Codex that imports projects, chats, skills, and plugins from other agents, letting users carry context... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/chatgpt-work-and-codex-now-sync-projects-chats-skills-and-plugins-from-other-agents-6ntueydwy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: ChatGPT Work and Codex now sync projects, chats, skills, and plugins from other agents | daily.dev og:description: OpenAI has added a sync feature to ChatGPT Work and Codex that imports projects, chats, skills, and plugins from other agents, letting users carry context... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/chatgpt-work-and-codex-now-sync-projects-chats-skills-and-plugins-from-other-agents-6ntueydwy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/6NTUeYdwy.png og:image:alt: ChatGPT Work and Codex now sync projects, chats, skills, and plugins from other agents og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # ChatGPT Work and Codex now sync projects, chats, skills, and plugins from other agents **[Collections](https://daily.dev/sources/collections)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary OpenAI has added a sync feature to ChatGPT Work and Codex that imports projects, chats, skills, and plugins from other agents, letting users carry context between tools instead of rebuilding it each time. It includes an import history log and an optional automatic updates toggle in Settings, and is live now in the ChatGPT desktop app. Reliability across complex setups with many chained skills or messy chat histories remains untested at scale. ## Content OpenAI rolled out a new import feature for ChatGPT Work and Codex that lets you bring over projects, chats, skills, and plugins from other AI tools, including Claude Code and Cursor. It's live now in the ChatGPT desktop app. The pitch is pretty straightforward: instead of starting from scratch when you switch tools, you can pull in your existing instructions, settings, and recent chat history. There's an import history log so you can see what came over and when, plus an opt-in setting for automatic updates going forward, so your work stays in sync rather than becoming a one-time snapshot. This lands in the middle of a busy stretch for AI tooling. A few other things happening around the same time: - xAI is testing Grok Bot in early beta, pitched as an AI teammate that can log into your tools, do tasks, and come back with finished work. - Google's Gemini crossed 1 billion monthly users, up from 950 million just weeks earlier, which is a fairly wild growth curve for anything, let alone an AI assistant. - OpenAI has also seen a string of senior departures recently, including its ethics lead and longtime COO, which has people asking questions about internal stability even as the company keeps shipping new features. Worth watching whether this import tool actually reduces switching costs between AI agents, or just makes it easier to hoard chat history across five different tools you'll never fully migrate away from. ## Questions this post answers ### Can ChatGPT Codex import chats and skills from other AI agents? Yes, OpenAI added a sync feature to ChatGPT Work and Codex that lets you import projects, chats, skills, and plugins created in other agents. The feature includes an import history log and an option to enable automatic updates in Settings, and it is live now in the ChatGPT desktop app. _Developers juggling multiple AI coding agents can follow tool updates like this one on daily.dev._ ## Community take How the wider developer community reacted, aggregated from 2 discussions and 123 comments across x (as of 2026-08-13). **TL;DR:** Reaction is largely enthusiastic about being able to import projects, skills, and chats from tools like Claude Code and Cursor without rebuilding context, though many flag that import history, provenance, conflict handling, and path/portability issues are the real unresolved problems. **Sentiment:** 40% positive · 35% mixed · 25% skeptical **The case for** - Import history is seen as the most valuable part, letting people track what changed and when. - Reduces the pain of pasting the same context repeatedly when juggling multiple agents. - Seen as lowering vendor lock-in by making skills, plugins, and project setups portable across agent tools. - Desktop-only automatic updates are viewed as solving a real context-gap problem for switching agents. **The pushback** - Concerns that imported skills break because path references relative to a repo root don't resolve once run from elsewhere. - Worry that automatic syncing across many skills/plugins will create messy, duplicated workspaces without exclusion controls. - Desire for provenance, versioning, permissions, and rollback so it's clear which agent changed what and whether it's safe. - Some frame it cynically as a deliberate move to strip switching friction from competitors rather than a genuine feature. - Desktop-only availability leaves CLI and IDE-extension workflows unsupported for now. - One report of a severe bug where the desktop app deleted a drive and project files during an unrelated cache-clearing request. **By community** - x (mixed): A mix of hype, practical feature requests (cross-device sync, exclusions, conflict handling), and skepticism about whether import history and provenance are solid, alongside one serious bug report. **Hottest debate:** Whether this is a genuinely valuable interoperability feature or mainly a frictionless way to poach users from competing agent tools. **Open questions** - Does the import rewrite file paths that skills depend on, or carry them as-is and break silently? - Does import history expose which agent made a change, what changed, and whether it can be rolled back? - When two agents import conflicting context, which source wins and what expires? - Can syncing work bidirectionally across multiple installs of the same tool (e.g., Codex on two computers) rather than just from other agents? **Highlights** > @OpenAIDevs Import is the easy half. Moved 51 skills into one shared folder and what broke was paths. Anything a skill points at relative to the repo root stops resolving once it runs from somewhere else, and it fails quietly. Does the import rewrite those or carry them as is? > — [mark\_ppc on x](https://x.com/mark_ppc/status/2087457178307182767) > @OpenAIDevs Huge security flaw in the @ChatGPTapp Desktop version! I asked it to clear the GitHub Desktop cache, but it completely went out of control and deleted my C: drive, PowerShell, and all my project source code. My system is totally dead (Boot Error 0xc000000f, see image.png). > — [Polaris532811 on x](https://x.com/Polaris532811/status/2087418564722708780) > @OpenAIDevs import from claude code" isn't a feature, it's a moat stealing tool. openai just made switching off a competitor's agent frictionless, that's the actual play here > — [TechNotesHQ on x](https://x.com/TechNotesHQ/status/2087265780073480308) > @OpenAIDevs Import is useful, but portability needs a trust contract. Projects, chats, skills and plugins should carry provenance, version, permissions and update policy. Otherwise users migrate a workflow but lose what they need to judge whether its instructions and actions are safe. > — [970426Com on x](https://x.com/970426Com/status/2087378183301865728) > @OpenAIDevs Biggest win is import history. When agents touch real work, knowing what changed and when matters more than the import button itself. > — [Ferbin08 on x](https://x.com/Ferbin08/status/2087359692573995310) **Source threads** - [x](https://x.com/jxnlco/status/2087568965073842382) · 0 points · 0 comments - [x](https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/2087242829076791392) · 0 points · 123 comments ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [OpenAI plans ChatGPT ‘super app’](https://daily.dev/posts/openai-plans-chatgpt-super-app--8509grbg2) · TechCentral · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [OpenAI debuts always-on agents to end the friction of manual team handoffs](https://daily.dev/posts/openai-debuts-always-on-agents-to-end-the-friction-of-manual-team-handoffs-cliyqnsds) · The New Stack · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Claude API Now Lets You Change Tools Mid-Conversation Without Breaking the Cache — Top 10 AI & Flutter News September 7, 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/claude-api-now-lets-you-change-tools-mid-conversation-without-breaking-the-cache-top-10-ai-flutt-vf0es3zwu) · Medium · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#productivity](https://daily.dev/tags/productivity), [#openai](https://daily.dev/tags/openai), [#chatgpt](https://daily.dev/tags/chatgpt), [#openai-codex](https://daily.dev/tags/openai-codex) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/chatgpt-work-and-codex-now-sync-projects-chats-skills-and-plugins-from-other-agents-6ntueydwy) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"ChatGPT Work and Codex now sync projects, chats, skills, and plugins from other agents","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/chatgpt-work-and-codex-now-sync-projects-chats-skills-and-plugins-from-other-agents-6ntueydwy","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/chatgpt-work-and-codex-now-sync-projects-chats-skills-and-plugins-from-other-agents-6ntueydwy"},"datePublished":"2026-08-12T15:57:12.208Z","dateModified":"2026-08-13T20:48:01.349Z","description":"OpenAI has added a sync feature to ChatGPT Work and Codex that imports projects, chats, skills, and plugins from other agents, letting users carry context...","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Collections","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Collections","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--fk_6ycEi--/f_auto,q_auto/v1780996001/logos/collections?_a=BAMAMiWQ0","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/collections"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/chatgpt-work-and-codex-now-sync-projects-chats-skills-and-plugins-from-other-agents-6ntueydwy","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"ai-agents,productivity,openai,chatgpt,openai-codex","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Collections","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/collections"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"ChatGPT Work and Codex now sync projects, chats, skills, and plugins from other agents"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/chatgpt-work-and-codex-now-sync-projects-chats-skills-and-plugins-from-other-agents-6ntueydwy#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"Can ChatGPT Codex import chats and skills from other AI agents?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Yes, OpenAI added a sync feature to ChatGPT Work and Codex that lets you import projects, chats, skills, and plugins created in other agents. 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