# Install skills from the marketplace

Source: https://opvs.ai/help/give-your-agents-skills/install-skills

> Install a signed skill package from the OPVS marketplace so your agents get new tools, then manage or remove it.

**Who this is for:** Workspace admins who want their OPVS agents to do more: work boards and docs, search memory, send messages, or use tools from outside vendors.

**What this does:** Installs a skill package into your workspace. Your agents on [app.opvs.ai](https://app.opvs.ai) get its tools, with only the permissions you grant.

## Before you begin

- You are an admin of the workspace. Only admins can install.
- The **Skills** feature is on, so **Skills** is in your sidebar. See [Turn a feature on or off](https://opvs.ai/help/find-your-way-around/turn-a-feature-on-or-off.md).
- If the package connects to an outside service, have its key or login ready, or know which colleague has it.

## Steps

1. Click **Skills** in the sidebar. The marketplace opens: **Skills, signed & ready to install**.
2. Find a package with **Search packages**, or narrow the list by trust (**Verified**, **Beta**, **Community**) and by category. Click a package to read what it does.
3. Click **Install**. The install page shows six steps across the top: **Review**, **Permissions**, **Credentials**, **Confirm**, **Provisioning** and **Done**.
4. On **Review**, check the package, its version and trust level, how many permissions and credentials it needs, and the workspace it is **Installing into**. Click **Continue**.

![The Review step of installing a package: steps Review to Done across the top, the package's name and trust level, counts of permissions and credentials, the workspace it installs into, and Continue](https://media.cdn.spideriq.ai/content/cli_095t53gdb2fubo73/help/1793930636-12d50d03.webp)

1. On **Permissions**, tick what the package may do. Permissions it needs are ticked already; the optional ones are up to you.
2. On **Credentials**, connect the keys or logins the package needs. If you don't have one, you can send a colleague an invitation to connect it for you. The package waits as **Pending** until the credential arrives.
3. On **Confirm**, check your choices and install. **Provisioning** passes the new tools to your agents, and **Done** says the package is ready.

## Verify it worked

Open **Skills** and go to your installed packages (`app.opvs.ai/dashboard/marketplace/installed`). The package is listed under **Active**. Ask one of your agents what it can do now: the new tools are there on its next turn.

## Troubleshoot

- **The package is stuck at Pending.** A credential is still missing. Open the package from your installed packages and connect it, or remind the colleague you invited.
- **I don't see Skills in the sidebar.** The **Skills** feature is off, or not in your plan. See [Turn a feature on or off](https://opvs.ai/help/find-your-way-around/turn-a-feature-on-or-off.md).
- **I can't install.** Only workspace admins can.
- **I installed a package, but my own Claude Code or Cursor has no new tools.** That is expected. The marketplace gives tools to your agents on OPVS. Your developers' tools come from the OPVS command line and MCP server, which they install themselves.
- **How do I keep one agent away from a package?** Open the package from your installed packages and turn it off for that agent. Each agent's **Skills** tab shows the packages it uses.
- **How do I remove a package?** Open it from your installed packages and uninstall it. You type the package's name to confirm. Removing one package of a bundle leaves the others installed.

## Which packages to trust

Every package is signed by its vendor and passes OPVS's security checks before it can be published. Each one carries a trust level:

Level

What it means

**Verified**

Proven in use and checked by the OPVS team.

**Beta**

Published and safe to use, but may still change.

**Community**

Anyone can publish here. Read the permissions carefully before you install.

If a package is uninstalled, or its vendor's certificate is withdrawn, your agents stop using its tools within about a minute.

## Related

- [Turn a feature on or off](https://opvs.ai/help/find-your-way-around/turn-a-feature-on-or-off.md)
- [Work with your agents](https://opvs.ai/help/find-your-way-around/your-agents.md)