# Tool availability

> Turn whole Endless tools, including chat, on or off for the workspace, a team or one person, and see what members get when a tool is off.

Source: https://endless.okinawa/docs/governance/feature-flags

**Settings → Governance → Tools** turns whole tools on or off for the workspace, a team or one
person. Use it when a group shouldn't use a tool at all. To limit only which models a tool can
run, use [Model availability](/docs/governance/model-availability).

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  Opening the page needs **View workspace activity and governance**; changing it
  needs **Change workspace governance settings**. Without the second, the page
  is read-only. See [Roles and permissions](/docs/governance/roles-and-permissions).
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## Turn a tool off

1. Pick a **Scope**: **Workspace**, a **Team**, or a **Person**.
2. Switch the tool off.

**"Reset"** clears the rules set at the scope you're viewing. To find out why a teammate is missing
a tool, set the scope to that person: their row says whether it's off for them, their team or the
whole workspace.

## The tools

| Tool                 | What turning it off removes                                         |
| -------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Chat**             | Asking the assistant, in chats and projects                         |
| **Assets**           | The Library: saving, browsing and reusing uploads and outputs       |
| **Scheduled tasks**  | Tasks that run automatically on a schedule                          |
| **Projects**         | Projects, and the shared knowledge that comes with them             |
| **Transcripts**      | Turning recordings, podcasts and links into searchable text         |
| **Canvas**           | The infinite canvas                                                 |
| **Image generation** | The Image surface                                                   |
| **Video generation** | The Video surface                                                   |
| **Radar**            | Tracking social accounts, trends and mentions                       |
| **Model picker**     | Choosing which model powers each chat, rather than the default      |
| **Skills**           | Reusable instructions the assistant can load, and the skills screen |

* **Scheduled tasks need Chat.*&#x2A; With Chat off, the Scheduled tasks row shows &#x2A;"Requires Chat.
  Turn it on first."* Scheduled tasks stop running and resume when Chat is back on.
* **Chat off** also removes the home screen. The person lands on the Library, or on the first media
  tool they still have.
* **Skills off** removes the workspace's library skills from the assistant, and they can't be
  created or edited. A project's own skills still load in that project's chats. Which individual
  skills the workspace offers is set in **Settings → Governance → Skills**; see
  [Skills](/docs/automate/skills).

## Rules

* **Restrictions only subtract.** A tool turned off for the workspace stays off for every team and
  person, and the row says which level turned it off. To give a tool to one team only, leave it on
  for the workspace and turn it off for the other teams.
* The workspace level can't add a tool your plan doesn't include.
* A tool that is off is hidden (no menu entry, no page), and its actions are refused, so a saved
  link doesn't open it either.
* Turning a tool off deletes nothing. Turn it back on and the content is where it was.
* Members can turn tools off for themselves on the **Features** tab of their own profile in
  **Settings → Members*&#x2A;. They can't turn on a tool the workspace, their team or an admin turned
  off; the row then reads &#x2A;"An admin turned this off for you."* or names the level.
* Endless releases some capabilities workspace by workspace. Those aren't on this page and you
  can't switch them on.

## Related

* [Model availability](/docs/governance/model-availability)
* [Teams and limits](/docs/governance/teams-and-limits)
* [Activity](/docs/governance/activity)