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Workspace

Workspace: the five building blocks (Models, Knowledge, Prompts, Skills, Tools) composing into the Open WebUI coreWorkspace: the five building blocks (Models, Knowledge, Prompts, Skills, Tools) composing into the Open WebUI core

Compose your own AI from five building blocks.

The Workspace is where you turn a raw model into something tailored to your work. Bind knowledge, attach tools, set a system prompt, teach it skills and save the result as a reusable model. Every piece is optional and they stack: a model with your handbook attached, your house style as a prompt and the right tools wired in.

Building blockWhat it is for
ModelsWrap a base model with a system prompt, parameters, knowledge and tools, then save it as a reusable preset in the model picker.
KnowledgeUpload documents and build collections the AI retrieves from (RAG), so it answers from your sources instead of guessing.
PromptsSave reusable prompt templates with typed variables, callable in any chat with a / slash command.
SkillsMarkdown instruction sets that teach a model how to approach a task (methodology, steps, house rules), loaded on demand.
ToolsGive models real abilities they can call: APIs, code, the web. Tools are documented under Plugins & Extensibility, not here.

Each has its own page, so start anywhere. Most people begin with a custom Model and add the other pieces as they need them.

Sorting the lists

The Models, Knowledge, Prompts, Skills and Tools lists, along with Notes and the admin Functions list, can be ordered by clicking the Title or Updated at column heading. Clicking the heading you are already sorted by reverses the direction. Each list opens on Updated at, newest first.

Creating, importing and exporting

Everything that adds or moves workspace items runs through one Create button, at the right of the Workspace header next to the section tabs. The individual pages do not carry their own + New Model, + New Prompt or similar buttons. The button acts on the section you are currently looking at, and the chevron beside it opens the rest of that section's actions (the menu repeats Create as its first entry).

SectionCreateAlso in the menu
ModelsOpens the model editor on its own pageImport JSON, Export JSON
KnowledgeOpens a dialog on top of the listnone
PromptsOpens a dialog on top of the listImport JSON, Export JSON
SkillsOpens the skill editor on its own pageImport JSON, Export JSON
ToolsOpens the tool editor on its own pageImport From Link (admins only), Import JSON, Export JSON

When a section has only one action available, the chevron is dropped and Create is a plain button. That is always the case for Knowledge, and it happens elsewhere when the import and export permissions are withheld: each menu entry is gated by the matching workspace permission (models_import, prompts_export and so on), and admins always see all of them. Export writes the section's items to a JSON file, which the matching Import reads back.

The old create URLs still resolve. /workspace/prompts/create and /workspace/knowledge/create open the list with the create dialog already open, and closing it returns you to the list.

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