Template/Widget changes not reflected in GPT App after MCP redeployment

[malteCondor]

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!

[vb]

Hi @malteCondor,

This reminds me of a discussion from a few months ago about widgets not updating. I hope it helps in your case as well.

How to refresh to get latest version of widget in mobile app?

The solution is to version your widgets. I had the same problem. I wrote a script to generate a new widget version each time I publish the code to production. The widget version gets appended to the uri for each widget, making it unique. So when you hit refresh inside the android app, it’s getting the meta data (list tools) and because the uri is different, it’s forced to get the new (updated) widget. I will post some screen shots.

[malteCondor]

Thank you for your quick reply – and solution! Since adding versions to the widgets seems to have resolved the issue.

ui://cheapest-offers@v8aab193

[hamza.lakrati]

Did you click on Refresh button , or the new version has updated by itself after you added the version to your widget?

[malteCondor]

I always explicitly click on the “Refresh” button. Not sure if the app updates by itself after a new deployment.