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Packs

Packs are pre-made packages you can add to your A1KnowHow account. Each pack bundles shareable know-how—documents, workflows, and AI agents—so you do not have to build everything from scratch.

Think of a pack as a portable starter kit: import it, install it into your workspaces, then tweak names, instructions, and steps until it fits how your team works.

What is inside a pack?

A single pack can include any combination of:

  • Documents — playbooks, guides, and agent skills (often titled with a SKILL: prefix)
  • Workflows — multi-step automations that chain agents, tools, and conditions
  • Agents — pre-configured assistants with system prompts and tool access

When you browse a pack in the public catalog, the detail page lists exactly what is included before you add it.

Why use packs?

  • Start faster — reuse proven knowledge and automation instead of blank documents and empty workflows
  • Share know-how — export a pack from your account and hand a .a1kh file to a colleague or customer
  • Stay consistent — teams run the same skills and workflows, then customise locally
  • Learn by example — open an imported workflow or agent and see how expressions, steps, and prompts fit together

Packs complement what you already build in workspaces. They are not a separate product area—they are a convenient way to copy structured content into your library and install it where you need it.

Browse the catalog or use your library

WhereWhat you do
Pack catalogDiscover published packs. Read descriptions, see what is included, and add a pack to your library.
Packs in the app (/sb/packs)Manage packs you own—install them into workspaces, export them, or build your own.

Adding from the catalog requires a signed-in account. The catalog is read-only marketing pages; your library and install steps live inside the app.

Add a pack to your account

From the catalog:

  1. Open a pack on /packs and click Add to your library
  2. Sign in if prompted—the pack is copied into your account library
  3. Open Packs in the app and run Install on the pack
  4. Choose a default workspace for documents (you can override per document)
  5. Finish install—workflows and agents are created and linked according to the pack manifest

If the pack is already in your library, the app takes you straight to install or your pack list instead of duplicating it.

Import a .a1kh file

Someone may send you a pack file instead of pointing you at the catalog:

  1. Go to Packs in the app
  2. Choose Import pack (or open /sb/packs/import)
  3. Select the .a1kh file and review the manifest
  4. Save to your library, then install into your workspaces the same way as a catalog pack

Export works in the other direction: build or customise a pack in your library, then download a .a1kh file to share.

Adapt after install

Imported content is yours to change:

  • Edit document text and skill playbooks in the document editor
  • Adjust agent instructions and models under Settings → AI Agents
  • Duplicate workflow steps, change formulas, or add MCP tools in the workflow builder

Packs give you a strong default. Most teams rename items, trim steps they do not need, and point agents at their own workspace IDs and memory documents.

Example use cases

Marketing and content skills

A marketing know-how pack can ship several SKILL: documents—brief structures, tone guides, SEO checklists, social post patterns—plus an agent instructed to search that skills workspace. Content teams import once, install documents into a Marketing workspace, and use the same playbooks in Agent Chat and in approval workflows.

Good when: you want consistent output across writers without maintaining a separate style guide outside A1KnowHow.

Workflow Builder pack

The Workflow Builder pack is a meta-starter: it includes skills for designing workflows, a workflow that walks you through building another workflow, and an agent tuned for that job. Import it when you are new to workflow authoring or when you want a repeatable “design review” process for automations.

See the dedicated page for what is inside and how to use it:

Build your own packs

You can assemble packs from your existing workspaces:

  1. Create or open a pack in Packs → Build
  2. Add documents, agents, and workflows from your account
  3. Save, export a .a1kh file, or publish to the catalog (when your edition supports it)

Building packs is useful when you have a setup that works and want to reuse it across environments or hand it to customers.

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