Overview of team

The glue that holds your IBM® watsonx Orchestrate® ecosystem together. Just as you might have one co-worker that your team can go to for help with anything, your team can share access to a highly skilled skill set and AI assistant.

Teams in watsonx Orchestrate refer to the collection of people who have access to a shared set of resources within watsonx Orchestrate. When a team member runs skills, the administrator can see a record of those actions. Teams are made up of a collection of roles: admin, builder, and user. Only admins can add new members and define roles in the team.

Membership and collaboration on watsonx Orchestrate

You might need to work together with a colleague to achieve a specific goal. IBM watsonx Orchestrate has specifications about when you can work together with a colleague or collaborate on a specific task. Up first, see the difference between Membership and Collaboration:

  • Membership: Users who are members of the same team on watsonx Orchestrate. They share resources in the team skill set, but they can't work on the same resource; for example, building skill flows.
  • Collaboration: Users who have access to the same resource and can edit the same resource shared by another user. For example, when users build projects and have read and write permission to collaborate, the user can update the project, but the changes are only available for the other users when the changes are shared.

The following table describes the resources that users might want to collaborate on, and if users can access or collaborate on it, or both:

Resource Access it as a member (Team skill set) Able to collaborate
Imported skills Green check icon Red cross icon
Published operations for projects Green check icon Red cross icon
Skill flows Green check icon Red cross icon
Building projects Red cross icon Green check icon
Use skills Green check icon Red cross icon
AI assistant builder Red cross icon Green check icon

For members to share or have access to the shared resources in their tenant, they need to use the team skill set. For more information on how to switch between skill sets, see Changing skill sets.

For more information about roles and how they interrelate, see Roles on IBM® watsonx Orchestrate®.

Skill sets and AI assistants

Your team have access to team skill sets or AI assistant. Unlike a personal skill set, it is a resource shared by everyone in your team. As the administrator of your team, you're responsible for making sure that your team skill set or AI assistant is upskilled as needed. That is to say, you determine just what your team skill set or AI assistant can do for your team.

Important: For every AI assistant, the AI assistant builder creates two environments by default: draft and live. Each AI assistant environment becomes a new team skill set in watsonx Orchestrate with the following pattern in their names: "assistantname environmentname", for example MyAssistant Draft. When you connect an app to your AI assistant, make sure that you selected the skill set associated with your AI assistant environment.

Not finding the skills that you want your skill set or AI assistant to have? Reach out to your builder and start the conversation. The power of your AI assistant is magnified by the possibility of creating custom skills for your whole team to share. For more information about developing custom skills, see Building skills from apps and Building skills by importing OpenAPI files.