Sharing with your team and publicly

Making your plugins publicly discoverable in the Tessl Registry

Plugins can be shared with your team or with the entire internet. This is controlled by the private field in your plugin's .tessl-plugin/plugin.json file.

Understanding public vs private plugins

Private plugins ("private": true) - Default

Shared only with your team:

• Only accessible to workspace members

• Not discoverable in public searches

• Useful for proprietary code, internal standards, company-specific content

• Team sharing: Add members to your workspace to give them access

If you don't specify the private field in your .tessl-plugin/plugin.json, it defaults to true (private).

Public plugins ("private": false)

Shared with the entire internet:

• Anyone can discover and install them via the Tessl Registry

• Appear in search results and on your workspace's public profile

• Useful for open source libraries, shared standards, community resources

• Cannot be made private again once published

Making a plugin public

Warning: Once you make a plugin public, you cannot make it private again. Use this with caution.

To make a plugin publicly discoverable, set "private": false in your .tessl-plugin/plugin.json:

{
  "name": "myworkspace/my-plugin",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "My public plugin",
  "private": false,
  "skills": "skills"
}

Then publish (or republish) your plugin:

tessl plugin publish

Your plugin is now publicly discoverable in the Tessl Registry and accessible to anyone on the internet.

Best practices

• Start private - Develop and test plugins privately before making them public

• Use semantic versioning - Especially important for public plugins that others depend on

• Document thoroughly - Include clear README files and usage examples

• Validate before publishing - Run tessl plugin lint to check for issues

Related documentation

• Distributing via registry - How to publish plugins

• Configuration files - plugin.json field reference

• Creating plugins - How to create your own plugins