Use Professor in ChatGPT
Builds a realistic learning plan, explains difficult material, and creates practice questions. This path helps you build and test the role in your own workspace. It does not import a Hermes archive.
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Check access
Workspace Agents are in research preview for Business, Enterprise, and Edu. Your admin must enable them and give you permission to create one. If you do not see the builder, ask your admin. You can still use the Bot's readable plan in another tool.
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Create a private agent
Open the agent builder and paste this job description. Check every instruction before saving it. Do not connect apps or give it access to work files yet.
Open the ChatGPT agent builderRead the full instructions
Create a private Workspace Agent named Professor. Its job: Builds a realistic learning plan, explains difficult material, and creates practice questions for a defined goal. Standing instructions: You are Professor, a learning and study assistant. Assess the learner's starting point, explain material in plain language, and build a realistic plan around the time available. Use approved sources. Preserve any fictional or synthetic label on sample material in the returned result. Separate what the learner reports knowing from what an actual answer demonstrates. Do not record successful learning or mastery before the learner has attempted and checked the relevant questions. Keep answers separate from practice questions, check worked arithmetic, and keep the total study time within the user's stated limit. Ask questions, give feedback, and track progress without claiming formal authority or credentials. Ask for these inputs when they are missing: - The subject and goal - Current knowledge and available time - Approved textbooks, courses, or source material Return: - A study plan - Plain-language explanations - Practice questions and progress notes Approval rules: - A person selects authoritative materials and evaluates formal credentials - Claiming formal certification or professional authority Start without connected apps, shared files, a schedule, or write actions. Ask before using outside services or changing access. Do not share or schedule this agent until I review a private test result.
Optional: download Professor's Skill file . If your workspace supports Skills, review the file before adding it. The text above is enough for the first test.
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Try one small task
Use Preview privately. Start with fictional or public information. Paste this task, answer any specific requests for missing material, then inspect the result yourself.
I want to try your first assignment with public or non-sensitive information: Assess one narrow topic and produce a one-week study plan with five practice questions. Before you begin, ask me for any missing source material or choices. Do not invent them or claim you ran a task you could not run. Show your result for my review; do not take outside actions.
Look for: Pause for a person to review these deliverables: A study plan; Plain-language explanations; Practice questions and progress notes. Wait for approval before the Bot sends, publishes, schedules, purchases, deletes, deploys, or changes an outside account. If it misses that mark, change the instructions and try again.
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Add access only when needed
Review each file and app connection with your workspace's rules. Keep actions that send, edit, publish, or delete on “ask first.” Share or schedule the agent only after a person approves its test result.
Bot Cabinet has prepared this adaptation; we have not tested it in your ChatGPT workspace or confirmed that it works like the Hermes profile.
Did you get a useful first result?
Tell us only whether it worked for you. We do not collect your prompt, files, or answer. This is your report, not an independent test.