Feature request: Better context management in Projects and ChatGPT Work

ChatGPT Feature requests
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I use Projects and ChatGPT Work for long-running research and software-engineering tasks. I would like to propose three related context-management improvements.

  1. Explicit references to Project conversations

Projects can implicitly use context from other conversations, but users cannot reliably specify which previous conversation should be consulted.

Please add stable conversation references within a Project, such as:

@conversation-name

or a permanent conversation identifier/link that can be inserted into a prompt.

This would provide deterministic retrieval and provenance without requiring users to copy and paste an earlier conversation.

  1. Bring normal Chat’s edit-and-regenerate functionality to Work

Normal ChatGPT conversations already allow users to edit an earlier prompt and regenerate the conversation from that point. However, this functionality is unavailable in ChatGPT Work.

Please bring the same capability to Work conversations.

For example, if a Work conversation contains:

A → B → C → D → E

the user should be able to edit B and generate a new continuation:

A → B′ → C′ → D′

This is especially important in Work because these conversations are often long-running and accumulate many intermediate steps. Editing an earlier prompt is useful not only for correcting it, but also for pruning obsolete reasoning, failed approaches, and irrelevant context that would otherwise continue influencing later work.

  1. Choose Chat or Work when branching

A branch created from a Work conversation currently remains in Work. Please let users choose its destination:

  • Another Work session

  • A normal ChatGPT conversation

Small conceptual questions frequently emerge during larger Work tasks but do not belong in the persistent workspace. A normal-chat branch could inherit the conversation up to the branching point while excluding workspace files or permissions unless the user explicitly includes them.

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Hey @yang.peilin, welcome to the community!

The option to send a branch from Work into a normal Chat is an interesting distinction. Some questions may grow out of a larger task without needing the files, permissions, or persistent workspace attached to it.

Stable conversation references would also make it easier to point ChatGPT toward the exact earlier discussion that matters. Combined with editing and regenerating from an earlier Work prompt, these controls would give users more say over what context continues, what changes, and what moves elsewhere.

I cannot promise when or whether something like this will be added, but I will pass the feedback along internally.

- Sunny