OpenAI 员工解释自定义 MCP 为何藏在开发者模式
OpenAI 的 Max Stoiber 回应「ChatGPT 不够开放」的质疑：自定义 MCP 一直可用，只是被藏在开发者模式里，因为 12 亿非技术用户装未审核的 MCP 风险太高。
it's actually the opposite! we've always aimed to be the open ecosystem. we want to create a level playing ground for everybody, and for everybody to able to integrate into ChatGPT. custom MCP servers are just particularly tricky. we have 1.2B+ WAU, the majority of whom are not technical at all. custom MCP servers bring an inordinate amount of risk compared to the ones we safety scan and review in the directory, so we hid them behind a scary looking "Developer mode" toggle so that non-technical users would be disincentivized to install custom MCP servers and instead relied on the directory of "safe" MCP servers. so it's always been possible, just hidden. we've now made advancements that mean it's still scary, but slightly less so, and so we feel more comfortable removing that scary toggle. just took a while