This is the final step in mainstreaming agents.
OpenAI Codex and Claude Code/Work have already shown how well you can work with large context, files, and long tasks. But their environment is built around code, repositories, and folders on your computer.
Work brings that same approach to regular work: cloud storage, plugins, skills (finally), documents, presentations. Now you can from your phone dictate: "Put together a presentation from my materials, but make it not garbage" — and go eat your soup.
Why it matters
Until now, agent-mode work required terminal skills and coding knowledge. Work removes that barrier: cloud files, voice input, plugins — all without setting up an environment. Agent-powered work for people whose only terminal is at the airport.
What else to read on GPT-5.6
1. Vanya translated the official OpenAI guide.
2. Metaverseishe shared an article by someone who spent two months testing the new GPT and burned through 25 billion credits — with a comparison to Fable inside, and a generally interesting take.