One of the cool new features of ChatGPT is you can now install plugins to make the chatbot even smarter. But here’s the problem: there’s over 80 plugins to choose from in the ChatGPT store, so it can be tricky to choose which ones to install. On top of that, you can only run three plugins at once, so you’ve got to be choosy. 

To help you out, we’ve tested out the hottest plugins on the marketplace and made a list of the ones that, in our opinion, would be the most useful for developers. Remember that you’ll first need to set up the plugin beta feature before you can access the store or these plugins.

1. ChatWithGit

A relative newcomer on the ChatGPT store, ChatWithGit allows you to search GitHub with ChatGPT to find code that can help you out. It provides a snippet of the code and a link to the actual repository. Needless to say, this is a big time saver when you’re trying not to reinvent the wheel.

2. Code Interpreter

While this plugin is in closed alpha, it makes the list because it’s a very exciting addition to the plugin library. This plugin makes it possible to run Python code within a chat with ChatGPT, with the option to upload and download files, adjust the code, or have ChatGPT make changes and suggestions.

3. Zapier

Surprise, surprise: Zapier, the king of integration tools, has a plugin for allowing you to integrate 5,000+ apps (like Google Sheets, Gmail, and Slack) with ChatGPT. Prepare to spend a lot of tokens! Rather than switch consoles, you can call Zapier directly within ChatGPT’s interface. It supports any of Zapier’s 50,000 actions (e.g. Search, update, write) to any of Zapier’s supported apps.

4. Prompt Perfect

Coming up with the perfect prompt for ChatGPT can be tough. In fact, entire courses on Prompt Engineering have sprung up almost overnight. Prompt Perfect makes this easier by taking your prompt and rewording it in a way that gets you the results you need. All you need to do is start any prompt with ‘perfect’ followed by your query, and Prompt Perfect will do the rest.

5. Link Reader

Link Reader makes it possible for ChatGPT to read all sorts of links like PDFs, PPTs, Word docs, and more. You can use phrases like “Translate the contents from this link”, “summarize”, “interpret”, or “analyze” to get far more out of examining a link than you could a search engine.

We used it to go over one of our Multicloud reports, and were pleasantly surprised that it nailed most of the topics in the PDF with a simple prompt.

Conclusion: Lots more to come in terms of ChatGPT plugins