Exploring ChatGPT’s New GPTs Feature: A Hands‑On Walkthrough

On the morning of November 10, ChatGPT quietly opened the GPTs feature to all Plus users.

The interface has changed; clicking Explore or the user icon on the left side takes you directly to the new GPTs area.

You can see your own created GPTs as well as official OpenAI GPTs, which currently resemble prompt‑pack collections.

Clicking Create a GPT opens the creation page, with a GPT Builder on the left and a live preview on the right.

The Builder lets you interactively craft your own GPT, much like using a compiler to build a program.

For example, a knowledge‑base Q&A GPT was built using the 38K‑star awesome‑java repository as source data; after a few seconds the GPT was ready and named Java Resource Guide .

You can further refine the content by communicating with the GPT on the left, uploading text or document files as additional resources.

Testing the GPT in the preview window shows it generating initial dialogues and accurately listing CLI libraries from the repository when asked about CLI tools.

The Configure panel allows precise settings, including uploading up to ten documents (plain text, Office formats, PDFs; scanned PDFs are not yet supported).

Advanced Action settings let you call external APIs and integrate SaaS platforms such as Zapier, enabling the creation of a personal assistant similar to a “Jarvis”.

However, the feature currently lacks detailed documentation, parameter explanations, and mature configuration options, so it may need more time to mature.

After creation, the Save button publishes your work. The Public option is intended for the upcoming GPT Store, which is not yet live and may produce save errors.

The Only people with a link option allows sharing via a link, a method already used by third‑party GPT stores.

https://gptstore.ai/gpts

https://www.gptshunter.com/

Feel free to explore these stores to see the variety of user‑generated GPTs.

With custom GPTs, knowledge‑base files, and web retrieval all officially supported, many niche solutions like ChatPDF or industry‑specific knowledge bases may become less needed.

In conclusion, GPTs act as an interactive prompt creator or lightweight plugin; to become true productivity tools they will likely need deeper plugin development, custom data integration, and features like vision and TTS.