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JUN 3 · Clipped · via TheRouter (secondary) Release DecisionEval Run Setup

OpenAI retires its testing product and points builders elsewhere

A vendor retiring the surface moves the interaction into the team's own tools. That is an argument for patterns that outlive any one product, and for baselines the team owns.

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watching

watching → emerging → established

A candidate behavior, not yet a published pattern. Early signal — worth tracking, not yet worth standardizing on.

7 documented sightings since May 2026 — every one traces to a dated source.

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Machine summary of the source

Secondary reports describe a 2026-06-03 notice that OpenAI's prompt-testing product and its Agent Builder wind down. They go read-only from 2026-10-31 and away from 2026-11-30, with a move to the Agents developer kit or ChatGPT workspace agents. In October 2025 the testing product had added datasets built from traces, grading of whole runs against written rules, and prompt rewrites from human notes. The original notice was not reachable, so the dates rest on secondary sources.

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