# Skills in shared workspaces

Owners and admins decide which skills people can use in a shared workspace, can add a skill for everyone or require it, choose who may share skills, and approve members' shares.

In a shared workspace, the owner and admins set the workspace's rules for skills. Members see the result in **Customization** → **Skills**. These steps are for the web app. For the phone, see [Use skills on the phone](https://support.bluedeer.ai/mobile/general/use-skills-on-the-phone.md).

## Open the skill rules

1. Select **Workspace** in the sidebar, then **Settings**.
2. Select the **Skills and plugins** tab. It is shown to the owner and admins only. Rules for plugins are on the same tab; see [Plugins in shared workspaces](https://support.bluedeer.ai/bluedeer/plugins/plugins-in-shared-workspaces.md).

## The rule for each skill

Each skill by Bluedeer has one of four rules:

- **Not available**: hidden from everyone in the workspace.
- **Available to add**: people can add it themselves. New workspaces start with every Bluedeer skill available to add.
- **Added for everyone**: it is turned on for each person, who can still turn it off.
- **Required**: it is on for everyone and nobody can turn it off or remove it. Members see a lock and the word **Required**.

Skills added for everyone or required do not count toward anyone's limit.

Skills that people in the workspace made and shared have no rule. They are listed under **Shared in this workspace** as **Available to add**: each person adds the ones they want, and nobody is made to use them.

## Who can share skills

Under **Sharing skills and plugins**, choose (one rule covers skills and plugins):

- **Anyone can share**: a member's skill is shared as soon as they share it.
- **Admins approve first**: a member's share waits until the owner or an admin approves it. New workspaces start with this.

## Approve members' shares

Skills waiting for approval are listed under **Waiting for approval**. Select one to read all of it, including its instructions and files, then select **Approve** or **Decline**.

## Seats

A member without a seat can see the workspace's skills but cannot add, try, change or share any until they have a seat. The buttons and switches are still shown but are unavailable; point at one to see why, for example "You need a seat in Northstar Studio to add skills." On the phone, tap one to see the same explanation with **Request a seat**.

## Related

- [Share a skill with your workspace](https://support.bluedeer.ai/bluedeer/skills/share-a-skill.md)
- [What are skills?](https://support.bluedeer.ai/bluedeer/skills/what-are-skills.md)