Sharing an AI agent: what to keep, what to strip, and what never to trust

Description and use

Templates now safely share agent logic while protecting user privacy, enabling broader reuse without leaking personal data.

Problem

When sharing an AI agent, deciding which parts of the agent should travel with the template and which should stay private is challenging; wrong choices can render templates useless or expose sensitive data.

Outcome

Templates now safely share agent logic while protecting user privacy, enabling broader reuse without leaking personal data.

Workflow

• 1. Author creates agent in AWFlow. 2. Agent is exported as a template. 3. Export logic separates kept items (e.g., name, role, instructions, generic rules) from stripped items (e.g., memory, credentials). 4. Stripped items are replaced with placeholders or omitted. 5. Template is uploaded to the marketplace and moderated. 6. User installs template with one click. 7. Installer creates a new agent locally, mapping references and generating fresh IDs. 8. Installer shows a note: "Add these to finish setting it up: …". 9. User supplies missing dependencies (e.g., workflow names, MCP server hosts).

Evidence

An AI agent is more than a prompt. In AWFlow (a browser automation tool I build) an agent has a model, instructions, memory, skills, rules and routines, and agents can form teams with a handoff map

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An agent template should carry how the agent works, never what it knows about its author or what it's connected to on the author's machine.

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If the author picked an in-browser model, the template keeps it: anyone can download the same model. If they picked a cloud model, the template says "inherit" and the installer's own default applies.

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The agent's rule preset and its generic per-action rules are the safety intent, so they travel. Rules tied to specific sites, and the author's allow/block site lists, are personal browsing context, so they're dropped.

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If an agent uses one of the author's workflows as a skill, or an MCP server, the template can't include those. Instead it records what's needed: the workflow's name, the MCP server's host.

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After installing, the user sees "Add these to finish setting it up: …".

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