OpenAI Apps SDK: Building Apps for ChatGPT

Course details

ChatGPT now supports apps, integrations to external services that add context, content, and even UI elements to the conversation. In this course you’ll learn how to build your own apps. You can build your own ChatGPT apps using OpenAI’s Apps SDK and MCP, allowing users to call in your app during a chat and you to control what tools, context, UI, and other capabilities your app should add. The Apps SDK gives you the power to add content from your service, including text, images, video, and interactive interfaces to ChatGPT while you retain full control over user access and user experience.

Learning objectives
Understand what ChatGPT apps are and how they work.
Explore the OpenAI Apps SDK, documentation, and how to use it.
Build a custom ChatGPT app using the Apps SDK and MCP.
Test your custom app in ChatGPT.

Concepts

Introduction

Building ChatGPT apps with the Apps SDK

ChatGPT Apps and the Apps SDK

Apps in ChatGPT explained
Exploring the new opportunity space
Apps SDK - what it is and what it isn't
How apps in ChatGPT actually work

Building a ChatGPT App with the Apps SDK

Hands-on code in a ChatGPT app
Testing ChatGPT apps using the MCPJam Inspector
Exploring different interaction patterns in ChatGPT apps
Extending an MCP server to support ChatGPT apps
Adding widgets to ChatGPT apps using React.js
Wiring up and versioning a ChatGPT app
Testing an app live in ChatGPT

Conclusion

Where we, and apps in ChatGPT, go from here