Template/Widget changes not reflected in GPT App after MCP redeployment
OpenAI Developer Community
March 30, 2026
Hi OpenAI Team,
when I redeploy the MCP server, the MCP tools are correctly invoked by the GPT.
However, frontend updates (Templates with ui://), specifically widget changes in my case (single bundled HTML files built with React/Vite), do not seem to refresh properly. To see these updates, I currently have to delete and recreate the app in Apps each time. Manually hitting “Refresh” does not have any impact in this regard.
In a production setting, this workflow would be quite impractical, as continuously recreating the GPT App is not a viable solution.
Do you have any recommendations or best practices to address this issue?
Thank you!
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