Official Agents API cookbook: connect Slack threads to persistent agent sessions, workplace tools, and isolated sandboxes so workplace chat becomes a durable agent runtime.
Oct 15 Every deep dive (Shipper + six OpenAI interviews): Cloud flop → Rust local agent → no-editor desktop app → ChatGPT merge; learnable arc on form-factor bets, separate model lines, and agent-native UX.
OpenAI's Cookbook provides a synthetic support-agent optimization sprint comparing prompts, tool controls, model routing, caching, and offline follow-up; its default simulation is not a production performance benchmark.