ChatGPT agent mode books appointments by driving a real browser
At a glance
Professional-Rest138 documents using ChatGPT agent mode to open a live browser, click through booking sites for dentist or car service slots, and pause for login, CAPTCHA, and payment. This workflow is listed under appointments, browser-agent, chatgpt, booking, personal-agents.
On ChatGPT Plus/Pro/Business/Enterprise, they turn on agent mode and prompt it to book a specific appointment (or find a provider nearby), respect stated availability, work the booking UI in an in-chat browser, and stop with options before confirming or entering personal or payment details.
Worth knowing
Plus has a limited monthly agent-run budget (~40). The agent hands the browser back for logins and human checks; the author instructs never removing the stop-before-confirm rule.
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