OpenAI introduces ChatGPT Work- a new agent in ChatGPT that helps in getting work done across web, mobile and desktop

Yesterday, OpenAI officially introduced a new agent in ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, that can take action across your apps and files, stay with a project for hours if needed, and turn a goal into finished work.

Introducing ChatGPT Work, a new agent in ChatGPT powered by Codex and GPT-5.6.

It can take action across your apps and files, stay with a project for hours if needed, and turn a goal into finished work.

It’s a whole new way to get work done. pic.twitter.com/uGbvjU1LsV

— OpenAI (@OpenAI) July 9, 2026

ChatGPT Work

This new agent can gather information across your apps and workflows to create finished materials like sheets, slides, docs, and web apps, and stay with complex projects for hours by breaking them into smaller steps and completing them independently.

To better manage tasks, ChatGPT Work is powered by Codex and GPT 5.6. You can even ask the agent to take on entire workflows with a single request, and while you are away from your computer and phone, ChatGPT Work can keep projects moving forward with Scheduled Tasks.

Nearly 100% of teams in OpenAI are now using this agent, and it has been revealed that the agent showed amazing performance in sales and finance by moving faster, taking on harder tasks and finishing them in a few days or hours, so that the company can focus on customers.

The ChatGPT desktop app now goes further. On desktop, ChatGPT can use local files and apps to get work done. For web-based work, ChatGPT’s new built-in browser lets it bring in websites, tools, and online files, giving you one place to move work forward. Codex app is merging with the new ChatGPT desktop app.

To get started, connect the tools and context where your work already happens using plugins. Plugins connect ChatGPT to apps and systems like Slack and Microsoft Teams, Google Drive and SharePoint, email, calendars, CRMs, project trackers, and other internal tools. ChatGPT will automatically know when to reference a plugin based on your prompt, but you can also direct ChatGPT to pull context from a specific app by typing “@” followed by the app name in your prompt.

Once your apps and tools are connected, ChatGPT can understand what you are trying to do, pull in information from relevant sources, create documents, decks, and analyses, and keep refining drafts in the background while you stay in control.

Users can also delegate ChatGPT Work, repetitive tasks, to focus on work that matters. Scheduled Tasks can use your connected apps and browser to review new Slack updates each week, refresh a recurring meeting agenda, check websites and dashboards each morning, summarise what changed, send a report, monitor new customer feedback, and update a presentation when new feedback arrives by email. Though you remain in control of how ChatGPT works with you.

You can ask ChatGPT to research a market, compare resources, pull information from websites, or open and refine files from Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 inside the app. On desktop, Computer Use lets ChatGPT use your computer on your behalf to execute tasks in the background across your apps, tools and browser. You can use it as a one-time task or as part of a scheduled task.

OpenAI is also updating its Chrome extension to make it possible to use ChatGPT directly in Chrome’s sidebar.

Your organisation remains in control even as ChatGPT takes on more substantive work for your teams. The Compliance API provides visibility into ChatGPT Work conversations and actions at scale to support enterprise oversight. On web, admins can manage access to plugins and connected tools, configure browser use and network access for cloud environments and restrict sensitive actions in connected systems. On desktop, ChatGPT Work builds on Codex’s enterprise governance model and admin controls. Meanwhile, auto-review adds another layer of protection.

Availability

ChatGPT Work started rolling out yesterday on web and mobile, beginning with Pro, Enterprise and Edu users and will be expanded to Plus and Business users over the next few 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. The existing version of the ChatGPT desktop app will be renamed ChatGPT Classic.

ChatGPT Work follows the same usage structure as Codex. ChatGPT Enterpise and Edu admins can also set spend controls in the Admin Console to manage ChatGPT Work usage as adoption grows.