ChatGPT plugin (development)

The Sofer plugin connects a signed-in Sofer account to ChatGPT through a separate MCP server. It can submit audio files or direct download links for transcription, check job status, and retrieve sources from the account’s Maishiv knowledge base.

The MCP transport has its own tool schemas; the existing Fern REST API contract is unchanged. Transcription uses the same services and billing as the website. Search uses the chunk-search endpoint’s shared retrieval implementation and returns passages, citations and available audio timestamps. Authenticated connector searches have no Sofer search charge and do not consume the website’s daily Maishiv allowance. The public REST search endpoint retains its separate $0.01-per-completed-search API billing.

A private staging server is connected in ChatGPT for the selected pilot. It has not been published to the public directory. Audio imports use streamed storage uploads rather than a 64 MiB in-memory buffer; normal storage limits and import timeouts still apply. See plugins/sofer/README.md and plugins/sofer/DEPLOYMENT.md in the repository for configuration, deployment state, and acceptance checks.