Provisioning makes a template or skill built in one organisation available in another, so you don't need to rebuild it by hand. You create the content once in the source organisation, and provisioning copies it to the organisations that need it.
Choose how content moves
There are two ways content moves between organisations.
Method | Who runs it | How it works | Best for |
Distribute | Automated, through Evo Foundry | Publishes the content and gives target organisations access to it | Rolling the same template or skill out to many organisations at once |
Copy | A Researcher admin, by hand | Duplicates the content into one target organisation from within Access Evo Researcher | One-off moves where you're driving the process |
Both methods follow the same process. The Copy method checks more before it runs. For details, see Known limitations.
Only organisation templates and organisation skills can be provisioned. Personal templates and personal skills stay with the user who created them.
What you can provision
You can provision two kinds of content:
Templates: a whole project blueprint, including instructions, uploads, connectors, actions and more.
Skills: reusable instruction blocks, with optional supporting files, that shape how the AI behaves across projects.
Apps
Apps aren't provisioned directly. An app is a publishing layer that a Researcher admin builds around a template in each organisation. It places the template in a Navigator surface, such as a Quick Panel, Quick Action or Quick Section, and publishes it to users.
When the template arrives in a target organisation, an App Author or App Publisher there can wrap it in an app and publish it. The app's own settings, including surface type, panel size, mobile deployment, feature toggles and audience, are chosen in each organisation and don't travel.
Provision a template
A template has several parts, and each part travels differently.
Part | Provisioned | What happens |
Basics | Yes | The name, description, icon, colour, published flag, on-launch message and prompt travel. |
Instructions | Yes | The system prompt and launch behaviour are copied as they are. |
Uploads | Yes | Documents are copied across. Uploads with no stored file are skipped. |
Tags | Yes | Quick Asks and ADA usage tags travel with the template. |
Assistants | Yes | Assistants attached to the template travel with it. See Assistants and connectors. |
Knowledge | Partly | Only a reference travels. The contents stay in Evo Memory. Provisioning is refused if knowledge isn't enabled in the target organisation. |
Data | Partly | Only a reference travels. The contents stay in Data Spaces. Provisioning is refused if Data Spaces isn't available in the target environment or region. |
Connectors | Partly | The connector's identity travels, and its address is resolved at runtime rather than copied. Connector skills come with it. See Known limitations. |
Actions | Partly | Action details are copied. Provisioning is refused if the action's UI component isn't available in the target environment. |
Collaborators | No | Collaborators are never copied. Add them again in the target organisation. |
Skills attached to the template travel with it. MCP server configuration travels too, but secrets are removed, so you need to enter them again in the target organisation.
Provision a skill
You can provision skills on their own. The skill's name, description and instruction text travel, along with all of its files, including the main skill file and every supporting file.
With Distribute, target organisations get access to a single shared copy of the skill's files, so the files aren't duplicated in each organisation. With Copy, the skill is duplicated into the target organisation.
Requirements before you provision
Check these before you provision a template or skill. If a requirement is missing, provisioning is refused before it starts. The one exception is connector access on Distribute, which is covered under Known limitations.
If the content uses | It needs |
Knowledge | Knowledge enabled in the target organisation |
Data | Data Spaces available in the target environment or region |
Connectors | The Connectors service available in the target environment, and the connector enabled for the target organisation |
Actions | The action's UI component available in the target environment |
Assistants | The connectors, Quick Actions and sub-assistants it uses already in the target organisation |
MCP servers | Secrets entered again in the target organisation after provisioning |
Collaborators | Manual re-add in the target organisation |
Apps | The template to arrive first, then an App Author or App Publisher to publish it again in the target organisation |
Assistants and connectors
Assistants and connectors reach organisations through Evo Foundry. A template that attaches an assistant or uses connectors only works once they're in place in the target organisation.
Assistants
An assistant package includes the assistant's name, description, instructions, model settings, products, Quick Actions, skills and sub-assistants. It doesn't include endpoints, headers or credentials. The connectors, Quick Actions and sub-assistants the assistant uses must already exist in the target organisation.
Connectors
A connector package includes the AI and coding instructions, skills, static tools, workflow nodes and operation details that you author in Access Evo Researcher. It doesn't include the base registration, endpoints, base URLs or credentials. These are set up separately for each environment.
Once an organisation receives any Foundry distribution, it sees only the connectors distributed to it. A connector that a template relies on must be distributed to the target organisation in its own right.
Known limitations
Some checks are stricter on the Copy method than on Distribute.
Connector access on Distribute
⚠️ Important: Distribute can't confirm that the target organisation can use a connector. A template can distribute successfully even when the target organisation can't use one of its connectors. Check connector access in the target organisation before you rely on the template. Copy checks connector access fully and refuses a connector that the target organisation can't use.
Actions
Action dependencies on other actions aren't resolved automatically yet. On Distribute, access to an action's UI component is checked only at environment level.
Knowledge and Data references
Only a reference travels for Knowledge and Data, and the contents stay in external services. A reference can therefore point to content that doesn't exist in the target environment. Provisioning is refused if the whole capability is unavailable, but individual references aren't checked one by one. Review these references in the target organisation after provisioning.
