diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/ch/chatgpt-retrieval-plugin/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/ch/chatgpt-retrieval-plugin/package.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 6e53f0438127..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/ch/chatgpt-retrieval-plugin/package.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,73 +0,0 @@
-{
-  lib,
-  python3Packages,
-  fetchFromGitHub,
-  python3,
-  nix-update-script,
-  dasel,
-}:
-
-python3Packages.buildPythonApplication {
-  pname = "chatgpt-retrieval-plugin";
-  version = "0-unstable-2023-03-28";
-  format = "pyproject";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "openai";
-    repo = "chatgpt-retrieval-plugin";
-    rev = "958bb787bf34823538482a9eb3157c5bf994a182";
-    hash = "sha256-fCNGzK5Uji6wGDTEwAf4FF/i+RC7ny3v4AsvQwIbehY=";
-  };
-
-  postPatch = ''
-    substituteInPlace pyproject.toml \
-      --replace 'fastapi = "^0.92.0"' 'fastapi = ">=0.92.0"' \
-      --replace 'python-dotenv = "^0.21.1"' 'python-dotenv = "*"' \
-      --replace 'python-multipart = "^0.0.6"' 'python-multipart = "^0.0.5"' \
-      --replace 'redis = "4.5.1"' 'redis = "^4.5.1"' \
-      --replace 'tiktoken = "^0.2.0"' 'tiktoken = "^0.3.0"' \
-      --replace 'packages = [{include = "server"}]' 'packages = [{include = "server"}, {include = "models"}, {include = "datastore"}, {include = "services"}]'
-
-    substituteInPlace server/main.py \
-      --replace 'directory=".well-known"' 'directory="/var/lib/chatgpt-retrieval-plugin/.well-known"' \
-      --replace '0.0.0.0' '127.0.0.1' \
-      --replace '8000' '8080'
-
-    ${dasel}/bin/dasel put -t string -f pyproject.toml -v '.well-known/*' '.tool.poetry.include.[]'
-  '';
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = with python3Packages; [
-    poetry-core
-  ];
-
-  propagatedBuildInputs = with python3.pkgs; [
-    fastapi
-    arrow
-    tiktoken
-    python-multipart
-    python-dotenv
-    openai
-    weaviate-client
-    pinecone-client
-    pymilvus
-    uvicorn
-    python-pptx
-    tenacity
-    pypdf2
-    qdrant-client
-    redis
-    docx2txt
-  ];
-
-  passthru = {
-    updateScript = nix-update-script { };
-  };
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    broken = true; # dependencies are not up to date, the project doesn't look well maintained, this doesn't look like it's going in the right direction. I'm happy to handle maintainership to whoever wants to.
-    homepage = "https://github.com/openai/chatgpt-retrieval-plugin";
-    description = "Tool to search and find personal or work documents by asking questions in everyday language";
-    license = licenses.mit;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ happysalada ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 8f20ddd0dd3e..a2fbdd3c4a2e 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -602,6 +602,7 @@ mapAliases {
 
   challenger = taler-challenger; # Added 2024-09-04
   charmcraft = throw "charmcraft was removed in Sep 25 following removal of LXD from nixpkgs"; # added 2025-09-18
+  chatgpt-retrieval-plugin = throw "chatgpt-retrieval-plugin has been removed because it has been marked as broken since at least November 2024."; # Added 2025-09-28
   check_smartmon = nagiosPlugins.check_smartmon; # Added 2024-05-03
   check_systemd = nagiosPlugins.check_systemd; # Added 2024-05-03
   check_zfs = nagiosPlugins.check_zfs; # Added 2024-05-03