Description
Please consider enabling a token-based, user-authenticated mechanism to allow ChatGPT to safely interact with live user-owned web services — such as querying a private site, submitting a form, or reading application responses — only when explicitly authorized.
This would unlock powerful real-world use cases without compromising security or trust.
Example Use Case
Imagine a user running a secure internal dashboard or API for their business (e.g., a booking system, inventory tool, or custom monitoring page). They want ChatGPT to:
- Inspect or test the site
- Interpret results
- Help debug issues live
- Or validate UI/API responses
To enable this safely, they configure the target server to return a special X-GPT-Token header with each response, matching a GUID that ChatGPT previously generated.
If the header is missing or invalid, ChatGPT stops interacting immediately.
Security Safeguards
To prevent abuse or injection:
- The first request must be a
GET, ensuring no side effects. - ChatGPT must stop immediately if the expected
X-GPT-Tokenheader is not present. - Optional: a DNS
TXTrecord (_gpt-auth) could be used to confirm domain ownership. - Interactions should be scoped to the initiating session and user-specific.
- All interactions must respect CORS and sandbox boundaries to avoid proxy-based spoofing.
Why This Matters
Currently, there’s no supported mechanism for ChatGPT to safely interact with a user-owned site — even when the user controls both ends.
This limits powerful, low-risk, high-trust workflows, such as:
- Live debugging of internal tools
- Code review on deployed pages
- Guided website testing and verification
- Controlled form input validation
Summary
A simple, opt-in token-based handshake protocol would make it safe and effective for ChatGPT to assist with live diagnostics and QA workflows, without compromising the system’s general sandboxing guarantees.
Submitted by:
MDD
(Developer and infrastructure builder integrating AI into real-world operations)