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Any member can create a skill in OpenWork Cloud and share it with the people and teams who need it. This page covers creating, sharing, finding, and copying a skill.
Personal or managed. Local workspace skills are free and need no OpenWork Cloud sign-in. Skills you create in OpenWork Cloud start just for you. You choose when to share them.

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Publish a skill for your team

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1. Create the skill

In OpenWork Cloud, a skill lives inside a plugin. When you create a skill, OpenWork makes a plugin for it.
  1. In the OpenWork Cloud dashboard, open My Library and click Add to your Library.
  2. Choose Skill and click Continue.
  3. On Create a skill, enter a Plugin name and a short Description.
  4. Fill in the skill: a name, when the AI should use it, and the steps in plain words.
  5. To add more to the same plugin, click Skill, Command, or Connector under What’s inside.
  6. Click Create plugin.
Only you can use it until you share it. You can also create a skill in the desktop app from Settings › Library › Add to library. Admins can create plugins from Manage › Plugins › Create a plugin.

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2. Choose who can use it

If you’re a member:
  1. In My Library, open the skill’s plugin and click Share. You can also use Share in the row’s ⋯ menu.
  2. Under Who can use it, click Add person or Add team and pick who should get it.
  3. Click Share with followed by the number of people.
You can share only what you made. Only admins can share with everyone in the organization. In the desktop app, you can also share from Settings › Library: open the ⋯ menu on the item and choose Share…. If you’re an admin (owner, super-admin, or admin):
  1. Open Manage › Plugins and click the plugin.
  2. Under Who can use it, turn on Everyone in the organization, or click Add person or Add team.
Changes on this page save right away. When you add access, a message appears with Undo in case you change your mind. To let someone edit the plugin as well as use it, open the ⋯ menu, choose Edit contents, and use Who can access this. Pick a person or team, choose Can edit, and click Grant.
To give the same audience several plugins at once, group them in a Collection. For a single skill or plugin, sharing it directly is simpler.

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3. Find it in the desktop app

Teammates don’t need to install anything.
  1. Open Settings › Library in the desktop app.
  2. Look under From OpenWork, or click the Skills filter.
  3. If a recent change hasn’t appeared yet, click the refresh button (its tooltip says Refresh).
Teammates can now ask for the task in plain words. The AI picks the skill up when a request matches its description.

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Copy without changing the shared skill

When you edit a shared skill, everyone who has it gets the change in their next task. To try changes on your own, make a copy first. A copy is just for you until you share it. A skill you made:
  1. Open Settings › Library in the desktop app.
  2. Open the ⋯ menu on the skill and choose Duplicate.
  3. OpenWork creates a copy named “(copy)”. Edit the copy.
If you’ve already started editing a skill you shared, the edit screen offers Save a copy just for me. That saves your changes as a new skill and leaves the shared one as it was. A skill someone else shared with you: There’s no copy button for skills other people made. Copy it by hand:
  1. In Settings › Library, open the shared skill and copy the text under Instructions.
  2. Click Add to library, choose Skill, and paste the instructions into the new skill.
  3. Give it a new name and create it.
For a small personal tweak, you can instead create a short skill that tells the AI to use the shared skill first and then apply your extra steps.