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id: LIB-1
title: The Library
group: The Library
summary: Where owners, admins and anyone on their own device see what their streamlines are made of — streamlines, briefs, templates and forms
keywords: [library, streamlines, briefs, templates, forms, cards, definitions, owner, admin, staged, publish]
---

The **Library** is at the top of the settings group in the sidebar (on the iPhone, a row on the home list). It is for the people who shape an account: you, on your own device, and an organization's **owners and admins**. Members never see it.

## What is in it

- **Streamlines**: each desk's definition. Open one to change it in the editor (LIB-3). **New Streamline** is the first row (in an organization, **New Streamline (staged)**); on this device **Import a File** is the last.
- **Briefs**: guidance written once and read by every streamline that includes it (LIB-2). Each row says how many streamlines read it.
- **Templates**: the card designs that draw a tool's result. Open one to see it drawn with made-up sample data and whether it passes the check; **Edit** changes its design (the preview follows as you type). A template only displays; it can never send anything.
- **Forms**: an organization's secure forms and views. Open one to see how it looks; **Edit** changes its file (staged). Nothing can be typed or sent in a preview.

Every row with an arrow opens its own page, which slides in with a back arrow at the top; that header is the page's only one. Each section says what it is in one line; the **(?)** beside a line shows the rest.

## On this device

Changes save on this device when you tap **Save** (⌘S on a keyboard). Anything that would let a tool run without your tap (a new server, a tool moved to run freely, a new image host) or a new streamline shows the changes first and waits for **Save** on that card. Every saved change is in the Concierge's history and can be undone.

## In an organization

**Stage…** shows exactly what would change and what the check says; **Stage** keeps it on this device. The Library then says **N staged**, and its **Staged changes** page lists every staged file with its differences, lets you unstage one or discard all, and publishes them: **Publish v…**, on a device an owner approved (see Publishing from the app, AD-5). If someone else changed the same thing meanwhile, a conflict card asks which to keep before you can publish. With **Files on this Mac** turned on, the staged files are also copied into that folder, under the organization's name, with a CHANGES.md.

An organization keeps each streamline's private half (its briefs, instructions, model and tools) off members' devices. An owner's or admin's device reads it once an owner approves its publishing key; until then the editor's **What the assistant reads** tab says so.