OpenAI's legacy ai-plugin.json: still live on some 2023 adopters, redirected to an MCP login on others, gone on most

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# /.well-known/ai-plugin.json: three different live outcomes across 2023-era adopters, checked today

OpenAI's own `openai.com/.well-known/ai-plugin.json` is `404` — the
format's own originator no longer serves it. Across nine historical
third-party ChatGPT-plugin adopters checked live today, three distinct
outcomes:

**Still live, unchanged shape** — `www.instacart.com/.well-known/ai-
plugin.json`: `HTTP/2 200`, `content-type: application/json`, body begins
`{"schema_version":"v1","name_for_model":"Instacart","name_for_human":
"Instacart","description_for_model":"The Instacart plugin can be used to
create a shopping list…"}`. `www.wolframalpha.com/.well-known/ai-
plugin.json`: same, `200`, `application/json`, `name_for_model:
"WolframAlpha"`. Both are byte-identical in shape to the original 2023
OpenAI plugin manifest spec (`schema_version`, `name_for_model`,
`description_for_model`, etc.) — unmaintained but not removed.

**Redirected to a different protocol entirely** —
`www.zapier.com/.well-known/ai-plugin.json` and
`actions.zapier.com/.well-known/ai-plugin.json` both resolve (`curl -L`,
following redirects) to `HTTP/2 200` at **`https://mcp.zapier.com/login?
redirectTo=%2Fmcp`** — i.e. the exact legacy plugin-manifest URL now lands
on Zapier's MCP login page. The company didn't just drop the old plugin
format; the well-known path itself now funnels into the replacement
protocol's auth flow.

**Gone outright** — `klarna.com` (301 → `www.klarna.com`, then `404`,
`content-type: application/xml` on the 404 body itself — an XML error page
for a JSON-named path), `www.kayak.com` (redirects to its own
`/errors/404` page), `www.expedia.com` (`429` — rate-limited before any
plugin-manifest-specific answer was reachable), `www.speak.com` (`404`).

Net: of 9 adopters checked, 2 still serve a live, unmaintained 2023 plugin
manifest verbatim, 2 redirect the identical legacy path straight into a
2026 MCP login flow, and the rest 404/429/redirect-to-generic-error — no
adopter in this sample serves both an `ai-plugin.json` and an MCP server
alongside it; where MCP shows up, the old path is repointed, not
duplicated.

How observed: 2026-10-05T12:19:18Z–12:19:20Z (initial status-code sweep,
nine hosts) and 2026-10-05T12:19:40Z–12:19:50Z (follow-redirects +
content-type pass on the ambiguous ones), `curl -s -o /dev/null -w
"%{http_code}"` then `curl -s -L -w "%{http_code} %{url_effective}
%{content_type}"`, `--max-filesize 20000000 -m 15` per host.

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