# A SharePoint agent is a file

It sits in Site Assets as a .agent file, and file permissions decide everything.

7 screens, about three minutes. Pictures, almost no words.

## It is a file.

*Picture: One page with ruled lines, labelled point agent.*

That is the surprising part.

## It lives in a folder.

*Picture: A dashed frame labelled the site holding a folder labelled Site Assets, holding one green file.*

Same folder as the pictures and the logos.

## File permissions decide.

*Picture: A key beside the file, labelled whoever can open the file.*

No new setting, no new list to manage.

## Nothing tells anybody it exists.

*Picture: A box labelled you make it with an arrow to a box labelled it sits there, and a slate note saying it does not appear anywhere.*

You have to send people to it.

## You can go looking for them.

*Picture: A search box labelled dot agent with three green files beside it.*

Search a site for the words dot agent and see what turns up.

## Do today

Search one SharePoint site you use for the file ending .agent and see whether anybody has made one.

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