OpenAI is rolling out Dots to ChatGPT Pro and Business Premium users as always-on GPT-6 Astra agents that can run background goals, be launched from ChatGPT or Codex, and communicate through Slack and Teams. For production teams, the key shift is operational: these are persistent agent identities with credentials and tool access, so shipping with them requires the same provisioning, audit, and security controls you’d apply to human or service accounts.