Share a bot
Share a bot as a link or a file, with the skills, routines, and memories you pick, and make a new bot from one.
Any bot can be shared as a template: its profile and the skills, routines, memories, and plugins you pick. Whoever opens it makes a new bot of their own from it, on their own computer, with their own AI provider and sign-ins.
What a template holds
| Part | What goes in |
|---|---|
| Profile | The name, the description (the bot's instructions), its symbol, and its color. Always included. |
| Skills | The skills you check. |
| Routines | The repeating routines you check, with their schedules and tasks. |
| Memories | Lines of the bot's memory and its topic notes. Never its daily log. |
| Plugins | Which services the bot works with, such as GitHub. Never your account or sign-in. |
A template never holds your provider or model, the bot's computer or folder, its avatar image, or a sign-in. Anything that looks like a key or a password is removed. Rows that still deserve a look before you share are marked at their end, such as an email address in orange.
Share it
In the desktop app, open the bot's direct chat and choose File › Share as Template…, or right-click the chat in the sidebar. On the phone, tap Share as Template in the chat's Details. Check what to include, then:
- Share Link makes a link like
https://lorca.app/t/…, copied for you. The template is encrypted with a key that is part of the link, after the#, which browsers never send, so neither lorca.app nor the relay can read it. Anyone you give the link to can. - Save as File… saves a
.lorca-templatefile. A file is not encrypted; keep it as private as what is in it.
Sharing the same bot again opens with its link and Update Link, which keeps the address.
Settings › Shared Links lists your links with their bots and when each was last updated. A link's menu has Copy Link and Revoke Link…; a revoked link says so to whoever opens it.
Open a link
A shared link opens a page on lorca.app that shows the bot: its look, name, and description, and its routines, plugins, skills, and memories. Open in Lorca opens it in the app, or the page points to the download.
Make a bot from a template
Choose File › New Bot from Template… (on the phone, New Bot from Template… in the chat list's New menu), and paste a link or choose a file. Then pick:
- Name, the Runner it runs on, and the Provider.
- For each plugin it works with, which of the Runner's accounts it uses. A plugin the Runner doesn't have yet must be installed and signed in to first; the sheet says what is missing.
Create Bot makes the bot and opens its chat. Its routines start paused. The new bot is yours alone: it shares nothing with the bot it came from.