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title: "Team quickstart: from new org to a team skill"
description: "Create an OpenWork Cloud organization, invite teammates, publish a skill plugin through a Collection, and use it from the desktop app"
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Set up a team on [app.openworklabs.com](https://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 in `Plugin Directory` and added it to a Collection.
4. Granted the Collection to the relevant team.
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](https://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.
## 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:
## 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. A skill lives inside a **plugin**, and a **Collection** groups one or more plugins for assignment.
First open **Collections**, click **New collection**, and create one for your team — for example `Sales Enablement`.
Next open **Plugin Directory → Create plugin**. Fill in the plugin 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, choose the **Sales Enablement** Collection. If only selected teams should receive it, leave **Share with everyone in the organization** off. Click **Create plugin**. The creator keeps access automatically.
## 4. Give teams access to the Collection
Open **Collections → Sales Enablement**. Under **Who can access this**, add the `Sales` team. You can instead grant the Collection to everyone in the organization or to individual members.
That's the whole admin loop: **skill inside a plugin → Collection → team or member**. Anyone added to the team later inherits access to the Collection.
## 5. Trigger the skill from the desktop app
Now switch to the [OpenWork desktop app](https://openworklabs.com). On the welcome screen, click **Joining a team? Sign in** and sign in with the same account.
Pick your organization:
You can confirm the connection any time under **Settings → Account**:
Open **Settings → Library** and filter to **Skills**. The skill assigned through `Sales Enablement` appears there automatically; click **Refresh** if the admin changed access moments ago.
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:
## What's next
- Add more skills to the plugin as your team's playbooks grow — everyone gets updates automatically.
- Import existing plugins from GitHub (**Plugin Directory → Create plugin → Import from GitHub**), including Anthropic-compatible plugin repositories.
- Wire up **Sources** to keep Collections in sync with a repository.
- Read [Collections](/cloud/share-with-your-team/collections) when you need several plugins, reusable audiences, or more complex assignments.
**Need more?** The first 5 users in your organization are free; additional users are $10 per user per month. For SSO or early analytics access, [contact us](mailto:founders@openworklabs.com).