Enterprise administrators manage plugins from the Plugins and skills page in Organization settings. This page holds the plugins your organization shares with its members and links to Roles & Permissions, where you set who can create plugins per role. Connectors keep their own settings page, Organization settings → Connectors, and the permissions you set there apply inside every plugin.
If you are new to plugins, start with What are plugins?. For how members find and install plugins, see Find, install, and remove plugins.
Availability: Plugins is available on individual plans and Self-Serve Enterprise organizations. On sales-assisted Enterprise plans, Plugins is in beta for a short period before rolling out to all organizations. An administrator turns it on for the whole organization or for selected roles. If your organization hasn’t turned on Plugins yet, keep using Customize → Connectors and Skills. Everything there works as before.
Before you start
An administrator role, or a custom role with Manage organization plugins and skills.
For sales-assisted Enterprise plans: Plugins turned on for at least one role (see Turn on Plugins for your organization).
For uploads, a
.zipfile with aplugin.jsonmanifest at its root or in the Claude Code or Codex location. See Create or upload a custom plugin for the requirements.
Turn on Plugins for your organization (beta)
On sales-assisted Enterprise plans, Plugins is in beta for a short period before rolling out to all organizations. During the beta, it starts off for everyone. An administrator turns it on from Organization settings → Plugins and skills, which shows a Beta badge while the beta runs.
Open Organization settings → Plugins and skills.
Under Access, open the menu next to Plugins. It shows the current state: Disabled, Enabled for All Members, or Enabled for Selected Roles.
Select Enable for All Members to turn Plugins on for everyone, or Enable for Selected Roles, then select Add role and pick the roles that should have it.
To turn Plugins off again, select Disable for everyone and confirm.
While Plugins is disabled for every role, the Organization plugins and skills library opens on the Skills tab so you can keep managing skills.
Members whose roles have access see the Plugins page on the web and in the Perplexity apps after their next refresh. Members without access keep using Customize → Connectors and Skills; nothing changes for them.
The same control appears in Roles & Permissions as the Plugins row, tagged Beta, in the Plugins and skills group. Changing it in either place updates the other.
When the beta ends, Plugins rolls out to every sales-assisted Enterprise organization and the Access section disappears. Your other Plugins settings stay as you set them.
How plugin permissions work
A plugin bundles connectors and skills, and it inherits the permissions of the connectors and skills inside it. In practice:
Connectors are governed on Organization settings → Connectors. The Enabled toggle and role access for each connector apply wherever the connector appears, including inside plugins. A plugin never grants access to a connector a member cannot otherwise use, and installing a plugin never connects an account on a member’s behalf. See Role-based access control for connectors.
Plugins and skills are governed on Organization settings → Plugins and skills. Plugin permissions are set per role in Roles & Permissions under Plugins and skills.
To stop members from using a particular tool, disable the connector. That turns it off everywhere, including inside every plugin that includes it. Members still see the plugin, and the connector inside it shows Disabled by your organization.
Set member permissions
You grant plugin permissions per role. Open Roles & Permissions (also linked at the top of Organization settings → Plugins and skills), select a role, and turn on the permissions in the Plugins and skills group:
Manage organization plugins and skills
Upload or create personal plugins and skills
Upload or create organization plugins and skills
Install their own organization plugins and skills for everyone
A role with Manage organization plugins and skills includes the last two automatically. During the beta, these permissions take effect only for roles that have Plugins access (the Plugins row tagged Beta in the same group). See Enterprise roles and permissions.
Self-Serve Enterprise organizations set these for the built-in Admin and Member roles. Sales-assisted plans can also grant them to custom roles. Adding a custom connector also requires Allow members to add custom connectors on Organization settings → Connectors.
Only administrators can create organization connectors. If anyone else uploads an organization plugin that declares a new connector, that connector is skipped with a warning and the rest of the plugin uploads. Publishing a personal plugin to the organization fails until each of its custom connectors matches an existing organization connector.
Publish an organization plugin
The Organization plugins and skills section lists every plugin shared with your organization. Publishing a plugin makes it available on the Organization tab for members to install themselves. Installing it for everyone is a separate step.
Open Organization settings → Plugins and skills
Only people with Manage organization plugins and skills see this page.
Select Upload plugin
Upload a .zip file with a plugin.json manifest at its root or in the Claude Code or Codex location. Uploading here publishes the plugin to your organization’s library. See Create or upload a custom plugin for the file requirements and limits.
Review the plugin
Open the plugin to confirm its skills and connectors were imported as expected. The plugin’s page opens in Plugins and skills, where you can also turn individual bundled skills on or off.
Members who are allowed to create organization plugins can also publish a personal plugin to the organization from the Plugins page in the sidebar. A published plugin moves to the organization’s library and is not installed for anyone automatically.
Install a plugin for everyone
Installing a plugin for everyone puts it on every member’s Installed tab and installs its skills for each member. Members still connect each connector with their own account.
Open the plugin from Organization plugins and skills
On Organization settings → Plugins and skills, find the plugin in the Organization plugins and skills list and open it.
Select Install org-wide
The plugin is installed for everyone in your organization. You can also install it for everyone from the list by selecting the plus (+) button on its card.
To remove the plugin for everyone, open it from the same list and select Uninstall.
Members can also ask for a plugin they created to be installed for everyone by selecting Request org install on the plugin. If members are allowed to install their own organization plugins for everyone, the plugin is installed right away and a confirmation reads Installed for your organization. Otherwise, a confirmation reads Request sent to admins, and an administrator completes the installation from the organization’s plugin library.
How to verify it worked
In the Organization plugins and skills list, the plugin’s card shows a check mark instead of the plus (+) button, and members see the plugin on their Installed tab. Connectors inside it still show Connect for each member until they connect their own account.
What members see
In Discover, connectors a member can’t use appear dimmed, with the reason on hover.
The Organization tab shows plugins, skills, and connectors your organization has shared.
During the beta, members whose roles don’t have Plugins access don’t see the Plugins page or the Use a plugin button; they keep Customize → Connectors and Skills.
Inside a plugin, each connector shows its own status: Connect, Connected, Disabled by your organization, Unavailable (not available to the member’s account, usually because their role does not have access), or Upgrade required (the plan does not include the connector). Expired connections show Reconnect on the Installed tab. The plugin stays visible and its other components keep working.
Audit logs
Connector connections and disconnections are recorded in your organization’s audit logs. Plugin and skill installation events are not logged separately.
Related articles
Need more help?
Reach out to your account team or contact us via Help > Contact Support. Visit the Trust Center for security and compliance documentation.