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# Distribute Skills

> Automatically install a published Skill for selected groups or everyone in your Cassidy organization and manage access safely.

Automatically install an important Skill for a group or everyone in your organization.

Use distribution when people should receive an approved Skill without finding and installing it individually.

<Info>
  You need the **Manage Skill Distribution** privilege. The Skill must be
  published, and every selected audience must be able to view it.
</Info>

## When to distribute a Skill

Distribution is useful when:

* A department is expected to follow the same approved process
* Everyone in the organization should receive a standard Skill
* An administrator wants to roll out an update without asking each person to install it

For optional Skills, normal sharing and personal installation are usually enough.

## Before you distribute

Confirm:

* The Skill has been tested with a representative user.
* The published version is ready for the full audience.
* The audience can view the Skill's folder or Team location.
* The audience can access referenced Knowledge Base sources and Workflows.
* Required external applications are available to the intended users.

Sharing or distributing a Skill does not grant access to its referenced resources.

## Choose the audience

You can distribute a Skill to:

* **Everyone in the organization**
* One or more **groups**

Distribution does not target individual people. A person can install the Skill personally when individual access is needed.

## Distribute the Skill

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open Manage Distribution">
    Open the Skill's **...** menu and select **Manage Distribution**.

    You can also open **More options → Sharing → Manage Distribution** from the Skill editor.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Choose the audience">
    Turn on **Everyone in the organization**, select groups under **Install for groups**, or use both.

    <Frame>
      <img src="https://mintcdn.com/cassidy/cxzNpEw5gi1nbDPw/images/skills/manage-skill-distribution.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=cxzNpEw5gi1nbDPw&q=85&s=cff75fdcebc0fea95a661307a923696d" alt="Manage Distribution dialog with organization-wide and group installation options" width="884" height="1024" data-path="images/skills/manage-skill-distribution.png" />
    </Frame>
  </Step>

  <Step title="Resolve access warnings">
    Cassidy prevents saving when a selected audience cannot view the Skill.

    Move the Skill to an accessible location or update its folder permissions, then try again.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Save installation">
    Click **Save Installation**.

    The published Skill becomes available in chats those people start directly in Cassidy.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## What recipients see

Recipients see **Installed by admin**.

They cannot uninstall the Skill while an organization or group distribution rule applies. If the rule is removed, a separate personal installation remains installed.

The Skill is available with default and custom Agents that have **Code Execution & File Creation** enabled.

## Change or remove distribution

Open **Manage Distribution**, update the selected audience, and save again.

Before removing a broadly used Skill:

* Review its [usage](/skills/analytics-and-history).
* Check whether important Agents or Workflows also include it.
* Notify affected teams when removing a required process.

Removing distribution does not delete the Skill or its published versions.

## Troubleshoot distribution

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="Manage Distribution is missing">
    Confirm that you have the **Manage Skill Distribution** privilege and that
    the Skill has a published version.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Cassidy says the audience cannot view the Skill">
    Move the Skill to **Team** or a folder shared with the selected organization
    or groups. Distribution cannot override Skill visibility.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="A recipient cannot use the Skill">
    Confirm the person's Agent has **Code Execution & File Creation** enabled and
    that the person can access the Skill's Knowledge Base sources, Workflows, and
    external applications.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="A recipient cannot uninstall the Skill">
    Skills installed by an administrator cannot be uninstalled while the
    organization or group distribution rule applies.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

## Next steps

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Share Skills with your team" icon="users" href="/skills/sharing-and-management">
    Manage Skill visibility and folder access.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Review Skill usage" icon="chart-line" href="/skills/analytics-and-history">
    See who receives the Skill and how often it is used.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>