Team quickstart: from new org to a team skill

Set up a team on app.openworklabs.com, publish your first skill, and trigger it from the desktop app — in about 15 minutes. By the end of this walkthrough you will have:

1. Created an organization on OpenWork Cloud.
2. Invited a few teammates and organized them into teams.
3. Created a plugin with a simple test skill (Extensions → Plugins) and assigned it to a marketplace.
4. Given the relevant teams access to that marketplace.
5. Signed in to the org from the OpenWork desktop app and triggered the skill with a plain-language prompt.

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1. Create your organization

Head to app.openworklabs.com. Enter your work email and press Next — OpenWork routes you to the right sign-in step automatically. New emails get the Create your account. step. Pick a name and password, then Sign up. Right after sign-up, OpenWork asks you to name your team. This creates your organization — you can rename it later, and no credit card is required. You land in the admin dashboard with a short setup checklist. You can follow it now or come back later — this tutorial covers the important parts.

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2. Invite teammates and create teams

Open Members in the sidebar. Click Add member, enter your teammate’s email, pick a role (Member or Admin), and hit Send invite. Repeat for a few teammates. Invited people show up as Pending until they accept. From the row menu (⋯) you can Copy invite link, Resend invite, or Cancel invite. Your teammate opens the invite link, sets a password, and joins with one click: Now organize people into teams. Switch to the Teams tab, click Create Team, name it (for example Sales), and tap the members who belong in it. Teams show up with their members at a glance:

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3. Create a plugin with a test skill

Skills are step-by-step instructions the agent loads when a task matches — think of them as runbooks your whole team can share. Skills ship inside plugins, and plugins are distributed through marketplaces. Open Extensions → Plugins. You’ll see OpenWork’s built-in plugins; click Create plugin to add your own. First, give your plugin a home: under Extensions → Marketplaces, click New marketplace and create one for your team — for example Sales Enablement. Back in Plugins → Create plugin, fill in the name and description, then click + Skill: Write the skill like a great runbook:

• Name — e.g. Prep a sales call
• Description — when should the agent use this? e.g. “Use when someone asks to prepare for a sales call or customer meeting.”
• Instructions — plain markdown with the steps you want the agent to follow.

In the Share section, keep Share with everyone in the organization checked and pick your Marketplace — this is what publishes the plugin so members find it in the OpenWork app. Click Create plugin. The plugin page confirms what’s inside and which marketplace it’s published to:

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4. Give teams access to the marketplace

Open Extensions → Marketplaces → Sales Enablement and switch to the Members tab. This is where you control who sees the marketplace: everyone in the org, specific teams, or individual people. Changing workspace access is sensitive, so OpenWork asks you to confirm your password first: Add the relevant teams under Teams — here the Sales team gets access. Admins always keep access. That’s the whole admin loop: plugin → marketplace → teams. Anyone you add later inherits the right extensions automatically.

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5. Trigger the skill from the desktop app

Now switch to the OpenWork desktop app. On the welcome screen, click Joining a team? Sign in and sign in with the same account. Pick your organization: OpenWork shows what your org gives you access to — including your marketplaces: You can confirm the connection any time under Settings → Account: Your team’s marketplace syncs automatically. Under Settings → Marketplace, the Sales Call Prep plugin from your org shows up as Active · runs in cloud — no manual install needed: Now just ask for the thing the skill knows how to do. Type a prompt that matches the skill’s description and hit Run task:

Prep me for tomorrow’s sales call with Northwind Traders. 30 minutes with their operations lead, goal is a paid pilot.

The agent picks up the skill and follows your runbook — research, a timed agenda, discovery questions, objection handling, and a clear next step, saved as a doc in your workspace:

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What’s next

• Add more skills to the plugin as your team’s playbooks grow — everyone gets updates automatically.
• Import existing plugins from GitHub (Extensions → Plugins → Import from GitHub), including Anthropic-compatible plugin repos.
• Wire up Sources to keep marketplaces in sync with a repository.