ChatGPT Apps: Embedded UI no longer renders on web after agentic multi-step exploration
OpenAI Developer Community
March 6, 2026
We’re building a ChatGPT App that lets users explore and view our own content.
Until a few days ago, a workflow like this worked on web:
1. GPT performs agentic multi-step exploration
2. It chains multiple data-only calls to resolve candidates/details
3. It then invokes a UI-rendering step to surface the result in chat
Now, the exploration/data steps still succeed, and the UI-rendering call also appears to be invoked, but the embedded UI never actually appears in the web client.
The key pattern is:
* data-only exploration succeeds
* standalone UI rendering works
* UI rendering after sequential exploration calls no longer surfaces on web
So this does not look like a retrieval failure. It looks more like a regression in the handoff from multi-step exploration to embedded UI surfacing.
Also worth noting:
* Web: embedded UI does not appear
* Mac desktop: still behaves as expected
Has anyone else seen a recent change in ChatGPT Apps where the UI-rendering step is invoked but the embedded UI does not render after agentic multi-step exploration, specifically on web?
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