Which experience are you using?
These docs cover both experiences. If Settings → Personal → My Okou is available, follow the My Okou steps. If you use an Agents page with New agent, follow the Legacy Agents steps. Availability can differ between members; these docs do not change your experience.
In either experience, you can run several chats or tasks at once, reuse workflows, and share reviewed work with your team. A runtime subagent is an execution tool, not a separate product profile you need to create.
Setup differences: My Okou uses personal Instructions in Settings → Personal → My Okou and workspace Workflows. Any step below that asks you to choose, create, or authorize a named Agent applies only to Legacy Agents. In My Okou, use your own Chat and follow the account and named-permission request shown. Shared Workflows do not share credentials; Automations use their owner's context and access.
Skill is the older name for what your workspace now calls a workflow: a named, reusable procedure that teaches Okou how your team does a specific kind of work. Same concept, current name.
If you landed here looking for how to capture a repeated prompt, share it with your team, or run it on a cadence, Workflows is the page you want.
What changed
| You may have read | The current name |
|---|---|
| Skill | Workflow — created, edited, copied, and shared from the Workflows page |
| Skills are workspace-scoped and shared automatically | In My Okou, a Private Workflow belongs to the current user and a Public Workflow is shared within the workspace. In Legacy Agents, each Workflow belongs to one Agent. Both experiences support Private and Public visibility. Sharing is a choice you make, not a side effect of saving. |
/slash-command invocation, with a visual picker "on the roadmap" | Workflows are listed in the workspace and can be invoked by name in plain language. Okou also loads one automatically when the request matches its description. |
| Schedule | Automation — a trigger attached to a workflow. Cadence is one trigger type among many. |
Where the word still appears
- Built-in skills. Okou includes a roster of cross-functional procedures maintained by Okou — research, finance, legal, product, marketing, support, and team communication. They behave exactly like the workflows you write. The current list is on Workflows.
SKILL.md. When a workflow is packaged with supplementary files, the procedure is expressed as aSKILL.mddocument generated from the workflow's name, description, and instruction. You don't write this file yourself.
What's next
- Workflows — the full guide: anatomy, ownership, visibility, and how Okou picks one.
- Automations — schedules, email, GitHub, calendar, Notion, and webhook triggers.
- Agents — who runs a workflow, and with which connectors.
