chatgpt-app-builder
Guide developers through creating and updating ChatGPT apps. Covers the full lifecycle: brainstorming ideas against UX guidelines, bootstrapping projects, implementing tools/views, debugging, running dev servers, deploying and connecting apps to ChatGPT. Use when a user wants to create or update a C
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Creating Plugins For LLMs
ChatGPT plugins are conversational experiences that extend ChatGPT through tools and custom UI views. They're built as MCP servers invoked during conversations.
⚠️ The plugin is consumed by two users at once: the human and the ChatGPT LLM . They collaborate through the view—the human interacts with it, the LLM sees its state. Internalize this before writing code: the view is your shared surface.
SPEC.md keeps track of the plugin's requirements and design decisions. Keep it up to date as you work on the plugin.
Building an ecommerce plugin? → Read [ecommerce.md](references/ecommerce.md) first.
No SPEC.md? → Read [discover.md](references/discover.md) first. Nothing else until SPEC.md exists.
SPEC.md exists? → Read SPEC.md, then follow [architecture.md](references/architecture.md) to design the change. Update SPEC.md, then read the relevant Implementation references below before writing code.
Migrating from Skybridge < 0.36.x ? → Read [migrate to v1.md](references/migrate to v1.md) first. Users may reference skybridge = 0.36.x as v1.
Migrating from Skybridge 1.x to 2.x ? → Fetch the [v2.0.0 release notes](https://github.com/alpic ai/skybridge/releases/tag/v2.0.0) first and follow them.
Setup
1. Copy template → [copy template.md](references/copy template.md): when starting a new project with ready SPEC.md
2. Run locally → [run locally.md](references/run locally.md): when ready to test, need dev server or ChatGPT connection
3. Evals → [evals.md](references/evals.md): when checking that a real model reaches the right tools from natural prompts, in a test
Architecture
Design or evolve UX flows and API shape → [architecture.md](references/architecture.md)
Implementation
Fetch and render data → [fetch and render data.md](references/fetch and render data.md): when implementing server handlers and view data fetching
State and context → [state and context.md](references/state and context.md): when persisting view UI state and updating LLM context
Prompt LLM → [prompt llm.md](references/prompt llm.md): when view needs to trigger LLM response
UI guidelines → [ui guidelines.md](references/ui guidelines.md): display modes, layout constraints, theme, device, and locale
External links → [open external links.md](references/open external links.md): when redirecting to external URLs or setting "open in app" target
OAuth → [oauth.md](references/oauth.md): when tools need user authentication to access user specific data
Assets and styling → [assets and styling.md](references/assets and styling.md): when adding images, fonts or CSS to views
CSP → [csp.md](references/csp.md): when declaring allowed domains for fetch, assets, redirects, or iframes
Events → [events.md](references/events.md): when ChatGPT should react to activity in the app without the user, such as new comments or incidents
OpenAI MCP extensions → [openai extensions.md](references/openai extensions.md): when the view should open from the ChatGPT sidebar, a conversation side panel, a file, or a deep link, or use ChatGPT at mentions, titled messages or local files
Deploy
Ship to production → [deploy.md](references/deploy.md): when ready to deploy via Alpic
Publish to ChatGPT Directory → [publish.md](references/publish.md): when ready to submit for review
Full API docs: [https://docs.skybridge.tech/api reference.md](https://docs.skybridge.tech/api reference.md)
Release notes & changelog: [https://skybridge.tech/changelog.md](https://skybridge.tech/changelog.md)