OpenAI announced ChatGPT Work, an agent in ChatGPT designed to take action across apps and files, stay with complex projects for extended periods, and turn user goals into finished work. The new experience is intended to move ChatGPT beyond answering questions and toward completing multi-step workflows across web, mobile, and desktop.
ChatGPT Work can gather information from connected apps and workflows to create materials such as sheets, slides, docs, and web apps. It can also break larger projects into smaller steps and complete them independently while users review progress, answer questions, change direction, and approve important actions.
The product is powered by OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 model, which is also rolling out today. OpenAI said GPT-5.6 improves ChatGPT’s ability to reason through multi-step tasks and create materials that follow a user’s templates and reference files.
OpenAI said ChatGPT Work can support workflows such as analyzing budget variance, turning source materials into a marketing campaign brief, preparing for a sales meeting, and updating recurring documents or slides from new messages in Microsoft Teams and Slack. The company said the agent can carry context across steps, allowing users to delegate broader workflows instead of isolated prompts.
The launch also expands ChatGPT’s role across desktop work. The updated ChatGPT desktop app can use local files and apps, while a built-in browser allows ChatGPT to bring in websites, tools, and online files in one place. OpenAI said the Codex app is also merging with the new ChatGPT desktop app, with Chat, Work, and Codex available in the desktop experience.
OpenAI is also introducing Sites in ChatGPT in public beta. Sites allows users to turn work or ideas into interactive sites or web apps, such as dashboards, project trackers, launch calendars, prototypes, internal portals, and interactive reports, which can be shared with teams or publicly through a URL.
ChatGPT Work integrates with plugins that connect ChatGPT to apps and systems such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Drive, SharePoint, email, calendars, CRMs, project trackers, and other internal tools. Users can also direct ChatGPT to pull context from a specific app by typing “@” followed by the app name in a prompt.
Scheduled Tasks are designed to let users ask ChatGPT to perform an action once, repeat work on a schedule, act when an event occurs, or monitor for changes over time. OpenAI said these tasks can use connected apps and the browser to review updates, summarize dashboard changes, monitor customer feedback, or update a presentation when new feedback arrives by email.
As part of this shift, OpenAI is deprecating Atlas and moving browser-based agentic capabilities into ChatGPT and Codex. OpenAI said Atlas is scheduled to stop working on August 9, 2026, and users should export or save important Atlas data, including bookmarks and pages they want to keep, before that date.
The company said it is building on lessons from Atlas to support a more capable browser experience in ChatGPT, including multiple tabs, downloads, improved navigation, account login support, and other browser improvements where available. OpenAI also pointed users to the new ChatGPT desktop app for deeper agentic browser work and the ChatGPT Chrome extension or sidebar for browser-based help in Chrome.
OpenAI said organizations remain in control through security, privacy, compliance, and workspace management features built on ChatGPT Enterprise. Enterprise and Edu admins can manage who has access, what company context ChatGPT can use, which tools it can connect to, and what actions it can take.
The rollout begins on web and mobile for Pro, Enterprise, and Edu users, with Plus and Business availability expanding over the following days. The updated ChatGPT desktop app is available globally for Mac and Windows, with Chat, Work, and Codex available to users on every plan, including Free.
