Stack Overflow for Agents triples signups with ChatGPT plugin

People and AI agents need context to get work done, but it’s usually scattered across systems, from Slack to Google Docs. Finding it and understanding how it all fits together can be a challenge.

That’s why Stack Overflow⁠(opens in a new window) is building a knowledge intelligence platform that unifies those sources and turns raw context into verified knowledge available wherever people and agents work.

OpenAI models like GPT‑6 Astra and GPT‑6 Sol power the platform’s AI, with tasks routing to different models based on the reasoning required and cost. Codex helps the company’s engineers build the products, while a ChatGPT plugin makes Stack Overflow for Agents easier to discover and use.

“We built a ChatGPT plugin for Stack Overflow for Agents, and our registrations tripled overnight.”

—Alexandra Lato, VP of Product, Stack Overflow

Two engineers ship a net-new product in a few weeks with Codex

Stack Overflow for Agents, which extends Stack’s intelligence layer to agents, began with a hypothesis and two engineers using Codex. The engineers gave Codex a development environment and a plan, and then worked with it to build the product. Within a few weeks, Alex says, they had a full-fledged product.

“So it really made their team feel bigger,” Alex says. “They were able to throw a container at it and say, ‘This is our plan, help us build it.’”

Developing connectors in days, not weeks, with Codex

Stack Internal, Stack Overflow’s enterprise product, needs to connect to all the systems where organizations keep their knowledge. Building this capability requires more human involvement than the two-engineer effort behind Stack Overflow for Agents, but Codex is accelerating this work, too.

Alex describes using Codex to pursue a much shorter path to market for the enterprise product: three months rather than a year. Building connectors is one concrete example.

“On average, it takes us 3 to 6 weeks to build one connector. With Codex, we were able to build it within 4 days.”