Sharing add-ons

Made an AI worth sharing, a skill your AIs are better with, or a tool recipe others would want? Sharing is one button, and it needs only your Flowsta identity - no upload site, no GitHub account.

Where the button is

• A character: edit the AI → Export AI → Share publicly.
• A skill you added from a folder or a zip: Share on its card.
• A tool you added yourself: Share on its card.

Each opens the same small dialog: a name for the listing, a description, a license, and for a tool the link to where it comes from. The button is plain Share; above it, who it goes out as: Listed as @you and signed with your Flowsta identity, so people know it is yours.

What goes out, and what never does

• A character: the persona, portrait and starting memories - never your conversations or personal memories.
• A skill: the folder as a zip; if it ships scripts, hooks or MCP servers the listing says so.
• A tool: the recipe only - how to start it, what it needs, the settings it asks for, the source link. Never your settings or their values, and nothing is hosted: people's computers fetch the program from its own source when they add it.

Everything is signed with your Flowsta identity over the content itself, so a listing can always be traced to its maker and never altered without the signature failing.

How review works

Every share becomes a submission to the public directory (WeAreFlowsta/your-own-ai-add-ons):

1. Checks verify the shape and the signature.
2. An AI review reads it against a fixed set of concerns - impersonation, anything that turns an AI against its user, abuse, honesty about what it does, third-party personal data - and for tools, that it starts only through programs that verify what they fetch (uv, npx, pipx, docker, python, node, deno, bunx), with no shell commands and no values in its settings. It writes its read on the submission: clear, look, or block.
3. A person looks at every first listing from a maker. Updates by the same maker, and listings from makers Flowsta already trusts, go through on their own once the checks are green.

Quality and taste are not judged. If a listing is not added, the reason is written on the submission.

The status you see in the app

The app keeps your submission link and shows where it got to, on the AI's edit form or the skill's or tool's card:

• Sent. We're checking it now.
• Sent. Someone at Flowsta looks at every new share before it is listed - usually within a few days. You'll see it here.
• Listed. Anyone can find it at yourownai.net/add-ons/… - and the Export card reads Share an update.
• Not added. The note from Flowsta: "…". Change it and share again.
• Not added. Our check found a problem: … Fix it and share again.

No email is collected and nothing is sent to you; the app reads the submission's public state when you look.

Licenses and terms

Listings are free. Licenses offered: Creative Commons (BY, BY-SA, CC0), MIT, Apache 2.0, GPL. Paid sharing comes later, for makers who have signed their work.

Updating or removing

Share again from the same AI, skill or tool and the listing updates under your name. To remove one, close the submission or ask - a listing is always yours.

Claiming a listing that names you

Some skills and tools on the shelf were listed by Flowsta from a public source, with the maker's name as it appears on the repository and a link to it. Their cards read "listed by Flowsta". If one of them is yours, you can claim it. A claim links the listing to your Flowsta identity, puts your username on the card, and turns on automatic updates: every push to your repository becomes the listed version, after the same checks and review every update goes through.

You need two things:

1. A Flowsta identity. Free, made through the Flowsta Vault in a couple of minutes. Pick your username.
2. Your username in the source. One line, added to the front matter your SKILL.md already has (the block between the --- lines at the top, where name and description live), holding the username on its own, no @ sign:

flowsta: your-username

Or, if you would rather not touch SKILL.md, a file named .flowsta at the root of the repository containing just the username.

Only someone with commit rights can add that line, which is what makes it proof. Push it, and the listing flips to "Signed by @you" at its next check. From then on the shelf follows your repository: a new commit that still carries the line is picked up, verified, reviewed and listed under your username, and people who added the skill see an update waiting in Your Own AI. Remove the line and the listing stops following.

A claim is free and stays free. Paid listings and tips are for later, and they will use the same identity.