Where skills live: My, Team, Shared with me — and public skills

Every skill in your library sits on one of four shelves, and the shelf tells you exactly who can touch it. Isolation is the default; sharing is always a deliberate act.

The four shelves

My Skills — skills you own that you haven't shared with the whole workspace. This is where every new skill starts: private to you. Nobody else can find it, run it, or even see that it exists until you share it.

Shared with me — skills someone granted to you personally, by name or email. What you can do with each one depends on the access level you were given (use, read, edit, or admin) — a use-only grant means you can run it but never read it.

Team Skills — skills shared with the entire workspace. This is the team's common shelf: everyone in the workspace can find and use them. If a skill is both workspace-shared and personally granted to you, it shows here.

System skills (the public library) — production-ready skills provided by Agentman, available to every workspace. You can browse them, use them, and — most usefully — clone one into your own library as an editable copy (source attribution is preserved). Cloning is how a public starting point becomes your private, customized version.

What each shelf means for isolation

• Private by default. Nothing you create is visible to anyone — not teammates, not admins browsing the library — until you share it.
• Sharing is explicit and per-skill. A personal grant moves a skill onto someone's Shared-with-me shelf; a workspace grant moves it onto everyone's Team shelf. Both are reversible.
• Nothing you own ever becomes public. There is no action that puts your skill in the public library. The system shelf is Agentman-curated; your skills stay inside your workspace unless you export them yourself.
• Workspaces are the outer wall. Shelves organize skills inside a workspace. Between workspaces, nothing is visible at all — which is why many firms run one workspace per client or matter.

"Published" does not mean "public"

These two words trip everyone up once:

• Publishing is a version action: it freezes your draft into an immutable version and makes it the live one for your agents and AI tools. A published skill is exactly as private as it was before — publishing changes which version runs, never who can see it.
• Public refers to the system library — skills Agentman provides to everyone. Your published skill is not in it and cannot end up in it.

So on the Free plan's "10 published skills": those are ten live skills in your own workspace, not ten skills the world can see.

Availability

All plans. System skills are available to every workspace; cloning a system skill creates a private copy in My Skills.