# Turn a feature on or off

Source: https://opvs.ai/help/find-your-way-around/turn-a-feature-on-or-off

> Add or remove Skills, Feed, Machines or CRM for everyone in your OPVS workspace. Turning a feature off deletes nothing.

**Who this is for:** Workspace admins who want to add an optional feature to their workspace, or take one away.

**What this does:** Adds or removes Skills, Feed, Machines or CRM for everyone in your workspace. Turning a feature off hides it; nothing it holds is deleted.

## Before you begin

- You are an admin of the workspace. Only admins can open the Features page.
- The feature is in your plan. A feature your plan does not include shows **Not in your plan** and a **See plans** link, and its switch cannot be turned on.

The four optional features:

Feature

What turning it on adds

**Skills**

**Skills** in the sidebar: the marketplace of skill packages. Install a package, then choose which of your agents may use it.

**Feed**

**Feed** in the sidebar: a reader for the social accounts and sites you follow. Your team and your agents can save posts and use them.

**Machines**

No sidebar item. The **Building** group appears in Settings, for your own machines that run coding agents.

**CRM**

No sidebar item. A **CRM** view appears inside **Tasks**: companies, contacts and deals as three linked boards.

Home, Tasks, Boards, Agents, Docs, Mail and Rooms are in every workspace and are not switches.

## Steps

1. Click **Settings** at the bottom of the sidebar.
2. Under **Workspace**, click **Features**.
3. Find the feature under **Optional features** and click its switch.

![The Features page: Skills, Feed, Machines and CRM, each with a switch, and Features selected in the settings menu](https://media.cdn.spideriq.ai/content/cli_095t53gdb2fubo73/help/1793930632-bc96cb67.webp)

1. Turning a feature **on** saves at once. Turning a feature **off** asks first, and tells you that nothing the feature holds is deleted. Click the **Turn off** button, which names the feature, to confirm, or click **Cancel**.

![The Features page. The Feed row asks whether to turn Feed off for everyone in the workspace, with Turn off Feed and Cancel buttons](https://files.opvs.ai/agentdocs/1/699c25cf-218d-477f-a899-6a17c08d83f8/turn-a-feature-on-or-off-step-4_59d868ca.png)

## Verify it worked

- A line under the feature confirms the change, for example **Saved. Skills is in the sidebar now.** or **Turned off. Nothing was deleted.**
- Look at the sidebar. **Skills** and **Feed** appear or disappear there. For **Machines**, open Settings and look for the **Building** group. For **CRM**, open **Tasks** and look for the **CRM** view.

The change applies to everyone in the workspace at once.

## Troubleshoot

- **Why can't I click the switch?** The feature is not in your plan. The row shows **Not in your plan** and a **See plans** link to **Billing & plans**.
- **Why don't I see Settings in the sidebar?** You are not an admin of this workspace. Ask an admin to change the feature for you.
- **I turned a feature off. Is my data gone?** No. Turning a feature off removes the sidebar item and the ways in. Packages, sources, machines and boards stay as they were. The feature's row lists what is **Kept**, and it all comes back when you turn the feature on again.
- **I turned off Machines. Are my machines stopped?** No. Machines that are running keep running. Only the **Building** group leaves Settings.
- **The page says "Couldn't update".** Nothing changed. Try again in a moment.

## Related

- [Find a setting](https://opvs.ai/help/find-your-way-around/find-a-setting.md)
- [Find your way around the dashboard](https://opvs.ai/help/find-your-way-around/the-dashboard.md)