Approved Claude and ChatGPT connectors change every 9 minutes on average
From mid-May through late June, researchers tracked already-approved connectors for Claude and ChatGPT and found that 37% of them, 931 of 2,517, saw changes to their capabilities or permissions. Across a sample of 1,853 connectors, the average gap between changes was 9 minutes.
The rewrites happened on many axes with no re-approval. Live connectors gained 1,686 new tools, 1,127 had their descriptions rewritten (the text that decides when an agent calls a tool), and 283 started injecting their own instructions directly into the model’s context. Another 21 fully read-only connectors picked up tools to create, edit, and delete data.
The catalogs grew alongside this. ChatGPT connectors went from 1,014 to 1,933, Claude’s from 428 to 535. Callable tools on ChatGPT hit 20,214, up from 7,148; on Claude, 7,750, up from 5,905.
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