What is ChatGPT agent?
Updated By Akkrev
ChatGPT agent is OpenAI's mode where ChatGPT uses its own browser to carry out tasks on websites, such as booking a hotel, and asks you before purchases.
ChatGPT agent is the mode in ChatGPT where it doesn’t just answer but works through a task on the web. It runs its own browser, opens websites, clicks, types and fills in forms, and pauses to ask the user before sensitive steps such as paying.
How it books a hotel
Asked to book a stay, ChatGPT agent typically searches for options, opens the hotel’s website or a booking site, picks dates and a room, reads the price and policies, and fills in the guest’s details. It hands control back to the user to approve the payment.
Not the same as the travel apps in ChatGPT
ChatGPT also has apps from Expedia and Booking.com that show live hotel prices inside the chat. Those send the user to Expedia or Booking.com to finish. ChatGPT agent is different: it can go to any website, including an independent hotel’s own booking engine.
What decides where it books
Whether ChatGPT agent books a hotel direct or through an online travel agency depends largely on whether it can get through the hotel’s own booking flow. Bot walls, embedded widgets it can’t operate and missing prices push it elsewhere.
Why it matters for AI visibility
ChatGPT agent acts on recommendations ChatGPT makes. Being named in ChatGPT’s answers comes first.