Tasks by roles in the skill-based experience

The tasks that each role can handle might differ from the experiences available on IBM® watsonx Orchestrate®.

Note: If you want information about roles and tasks in the agentic experience, see the Roles on watsonx Orchestrate topic.

The following table summarizes the tasks that the user (WO User, on IBM Cloud), builder (Writer, on IBM Cloud), and administrator (admin) (Manager, on IBM Cloud) can do:

Table 1. Tasks and references for all roles.
Role Task Reference
User (WO User, on IBM Cloud)
  • Connect to apps
  • Add skills to your personal skill set
  • Use the AI chat, the legacy chat, and skills
  • Manage tasks and workflows
 For more information, see the topics:
For a quick start, see the tutorials:
Builder (Writer, on IBM Cloud) It can run the tasks from the User role, plus tasks like the following:
  • Build {{site.daa.keyword.wxo-skills}} from app
  • Build custom skills by using OpenAPI specifications
  • Build projects and making them available in the skill catalog
  • Combine skills into skill flows
  • Build AI assistants
 For more information, see the topics: For a quick start, see the tutorials:
Administrator (admin) (Manager, on IBM Cloud) It can run the tasks from the Builder role, plus tasks like the following:
  • Add members to watsonx Orchestrate
  • Assign roles to members
  • Add skills to team skill set
  • Add AI assistants to the AI chat
  • Embed the AI chat in a page
  • Manage app connections
  • Manage workflows
 For more information, see the topics:

Parent topic:

→ Managing users