# Bug Report: ChatGPT Work Cannot Read Conversation-Based Project Sources

**URL:** <https://community.openai.com/t/bug-report-chatgpt-work-cannot-read-conversation-based-project-sources/1414594>\
**Category:** Bugs\
**Tags:** chatgpt\
**Created:** [November 10, 2026, 2:25am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/bug-report-chatgpt-work-cannot-read-conversation-based-project-sources/1414594 "2026-11-10T02:25:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 10, 2026, 2:25am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/bug-report-chatgpt-work-cannot-read-conversation-based-project-sources/1414594/1 "2026-11-10T02:25:31Z")

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# Bug Report: ChatGPT Work Cannot Read Conversation-Based Project Sources

## Environment

- **Surface:** Windows

- **Browser or app version:** APP

- **Affected feature and model, if relevant:** ChatGPT Projects → Work; Model:6.1SOL

## Bug

When using ChatGPT Work within a Project, Work can recognize and display the titles of conversation-based Project Sources, but it reports that it cannot access or read their actual content.

However, files stored in my Library and added to the same Project can be read by Work normally.

**Expected behavior:**

Work should be able to access and retrieve the actual content of conversations that have been added to a Project as sources, just as it can with supported Library files.

It should be able to search for relevant information, retrieve specific messages or passages, and use their content as project context.

The issue appears to be specific to conversation-based Project Sources rather than all Project Sources.

## Reproduction

1. Create or open a ChatGPT Project.

2. Open an existing ChatGPT conversation.

3. Use “Add to project sources” to save that conversation as a Project Source.

4. Start a Work session within the same Project.

5. Ask Work to retrieve specific information or quote a particular passage from the saved conversation.

6. Observe that Work can identify the source by its title but reports that it cannot access or read its content.

**Comparison test:**

1. Add a file from the Library to the same Project.

2. Start or continue a Work session within that Project.

3. Ask Work to retrieve specific information from that file.

4. Observe that Work can read and retrieve the file content normally.

## Diagnostics

- **Exact error or screenshot:** No specific error code. Work can recognize the conversation source by its title but reports that its content is inaccessible.

- **Comparison result:** Library files in the same Project are accessible and readable by Work, while conversation-based Project Sources are not.

- **When it happened (with timezone) and how often:** [Please add the date, time, timezone, and reproduction frequency.]

Please investigate whether ChatGPT Work can properly access and retrieve the contents of conversation-based Project Sources.

If this type of source is not currently supported by Work, please clarify this limitation in the product documentation.

Thank you.