big news: OpenAI just released the docs for their FULL MCP offering. They call it "APPS" You can just use them by naming them, no "installation" needed. Let's get Parallel in there! People may be able to use it by simply saying "Research top 50 companies to target. Do this
Imma Turn My Parallel Task MCP into a ChatGPT APP! Follow along! 😊🧵 Since yesterday the @p0 Task MCP has quietly gone live. It's usable in all MCP clients because it uses DCR (dynamic client registration) and OAuth 2.1. It has everything a modern MCP should have.... But
@p0 The MCP has been low-key live unlisted for a while now, but today the docs are live. Here's a demo from earlier https://x.com/janwilmake/statu...
@p0 The docs can be found here: https://docs.parallel.ai/integ...
@p0 So what's the goal? Well this MCP-UI thing is obv super sexy so gotta make it real. The goal is to show the table as results of spawned task groups stream in. Very curious if I can make this work. Imagine you ask ChatGPT to do a bunch of tasks using Parallel ("Parallel, can
@p0 I won't share any code today because our MCP is not OSS! however, I can share what I did high level and what I learned. First I needed to refactor our MCP because I was using https://github.com/janwilmake/... This doesn't seem to be a great fit anymore now that we're actually adding
@p0 to understand the delta and create a spec of new features, I need a highly dense doc of the App SDK first. https://x.com/janwilmake/statu...
@p0 To summarize, I also added a doc (whats-new .md) that highlights what the OpenAI App SDK actually adds to the MCP spec. https://github.com/janwilmake/...
@p0 I generated an initial version. It works in the MCP Inspector!
@p0 However, in the ChatGPT interface with Developer mode and the https mcp url installed, it: 1) does show the tools available in the UI 2) when asking for it with the app enabled, it cant' recall its tools https://x.com/janwilmake/statu...
@p0 also this is a regression I think. should probably not want to ever have html elements as context resouces from the ui https://x.com/janwilmake/statu...
@p0 update: it's working now! the tools are available, the UI shows up! gotta work on some fixes now to make it look nicer. https://x.com/janwilmake/statu...
@p0 Yeeeess!!! It's working! Check it out! https://x.com/janwilmake/statu...
@p0 Some learnings so far https://x.com/janwilmake/statu...
@p0 Having some glitches too https://x.com/janwilmake/statu...
@p0 Having a lot of issues with tool calling and contradicting instructions: 1- even if parallel tool is enabled, it thinks it can't access the web, so it won't use the tool. system prompt problem? 2- even if I explicitly ask it to use parallel, its telling me It can't do long
@p0 Reasoning trace that is most significant (see video how I got it): The task requires deep research, but the instructions contradict themselves: I can't perform tasks asynchronously or ask the user to wait. However, deep research would take time and run in the background, which
@p0 Ok... to make it a little better, I am making the agent behave differently when there is a UI. when UIs are available I don't need to instruct the agent to ask the user to check back later, as they can keep watching the progress live in the UI. But for clients that don't have UI
@p0 strange error message when authenticating mcps. but the oauth works fine afterwards!
@p0 BOOM! My OpenAI Apps SDK MCP server streams in results over long periods. safely! https://x.com/janwilmake/statu...
@p0 Credit where credit is due, MCP UI from @idosal1 and @liadyosef seems to have inspired this whole new paradigm!!! https://x.com/idosal1/status/1...
@p0 @idosal1 @liadyosef I just learned that - unfortunately - we will have to wait a bit more before we can actually re-initiate the chat with a new turn AUTOMATICALLY. the sendFollowupTurn tool is meant to be used by the user interaction. https://letmeprompt.com/rules-... I hope at some point MCP will get
@p0 @idosal1 @liadyosef the bugs 🐛 after trying a different MCP (with similar oauth provider) I got: GET URL: https://chatgpt.com/backend-ap... gives me a 401 with: Must use workspace account for this operation. It seems they've locked it down for new connections because yesterday it was all fine. Back to
@janwilmake omfg YES! imagine PARALLEL RUNNING concurrent RESEARCH RETURNING SCREENSHOTS! want to build us a DEMO?!
@IronRedSandHive screenshots or live progress in a table? working on it 💪
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