# OpenAI Operator (Computer-Using Agent)

> OpenAI · agentic-browsing

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- **name:** OpenAI Operator (Computer-Using Agent)
- **operator:** OpenAI
- **purpose:** agentic-browsing
- **ua_substring:** 
- **robots_token:** (none — agentic browser/agent; no published robots.txt token)
- **respects_robots:** no
- **verify:** no stable user-agent token; an agentic browser is identifiable only by IP/signature/behavior, not by a UA token.
- **notes:** OpenAI's Operator (released 2025-01-23) was a browsing agent powered by the Computer-Using Agent (CUA) model that performed online tasks in a browser on the user's behalf. It was deprecated after the release of ChatGPT agent and shut down on 2025-08-31. Retained here as a deprecated agentic-browser record for history/freshness.
- **canonical_name:** Operator
- **user_agent_token:** — (no-stable-ua)
- **ua_full:** — (no-stable-ua)
- **bot_type:** agentic-browser
- **bot_type_extension:** —
- **opt_out_mechanism:** — (not-applicable)
- **published_ip_range_url:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **asn:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **reverse_dns_suffix:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **supports_web_bot_auth:** — (not-applicable)
- **signature_agent_domain:** — (not-applicable)
- **jwks_url:** — (not-applicable)
- **verification_methods:** IP-signature
- **crawl_traffic_share:** — (not-applicable)
- **targeted_content_type:** HTML, text (interactive browsing)
- **documentation_url:** https://openai.com/index/introducing-operator/
- **first_seen_date:** 2025-01-23 (source: https://openai.com/index/introducing-operator/)
- **last_verified_date:** 2026-06-15
- **block_vs_allow_recommendation:** n/a — product deprecated and shut down on 2025-08-31; superseded by ChatGPT agent. No active traffic to manage.
- **citation_referral_value:** n/a (deprecated)
- **cloudflare_verified_category:** — (not-applicable)
- **status:** deprecated
- **triples:** ["Operator","operated_by","OpenAI"], ["Operator","has_bot_type","agentic-browser"], ["Operator","succeeded_by","ChatGPT agent"]
- **attribute_sources:** {"claims":["operator","first_seen_date","documentation_url","bot_type","status"],"source":"https://openai.com/index/introducing-operator/","last_verified":"2026-06-15"}