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Nested Projects / Sub-projects in ChatGPT

OpenAI Developer Community June 12, 2026
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Feature Request: Nested Projects / Sub-projects in ChatGPT I would like to suggest a feature that allows users to create Projects inside existing Projects, following a folder and sub-folder structure. Problem Currently, a Project is useful for maintaining a specific context, files, instructions, and sources around a broader area of work. However, complex work often requires multiple sub-tasks that each need their own dedicated context, sources, files, and instructions. In many cases, I need to work on a complex task that belongs to a larger Project, but the task itself requires a separate and more specific workspace. If I create a completely separate Project, I lose the broader context of the main Project. If I keep everything inside the same Project, the context can become too crowded, mixed, or difficult to manage. Proposed Solution Add the ability to create sub-projects inside a main Project. A sub-project should be able to: * inherit the context, files, and instructions from the main Project; * have its own additional instructions, files, sources, and conversations; * stay logically connected to the parent Project; * allow users to organize complex work into a hierarchy, similar to folders and sub-folders. For example: Main Project: Company Strategy ├── Sub-project: Market Research ├── Sub-project: Competitor Analysis ├── Sub-project: Financial Model └── Sub-project: Investor Presentation Each sub-project would use the general context of “Company Strategy”, while also maintaining its own specialized context and sources. Example Use Case Suppose I have a main Project for a company, product, or research initiative. Inside that Project, I may need to run several complex tasks: market analysis, legal research, technical documentation, financial planning, content strategy, and presentation development. Each of these tasks needs different files, sources, and instructions. However, they all depend on the same broader context from the main Project. Nested Projects would allow me to keep the global context at the parent level, while creating focused workspaces for each specific task. Why This Matters This would make Projects much more useful for users who work on complex, long-term, or professional workflows. The main benefits would be: * better organization of complex work; * cleaner context management; * less confusion between unrelated sub-tasks; * easier handling of task-specific sources; * stronger continuity between a broad project and its individual workstreams; * a more scalable Project structure for research, business, product development, writing, legal work, education, and consulting.

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