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An agent you created locally won't appear in the cloud until you export and import it.",[18,533,535],{"id":534},"moving-agents-between-local-and-cloud","Moving agents between local and cloud",[11,537,538],{},"To use a local agent on a cloud desktop — or bring a cloud agent to your local machine — export it from the source and import it at the destination.",[11,540,541,542,545],{},"See ",[223,543,544],{"href":406},"Export and import agents"," for step-by-step instructions.",{"title":157,"searchDepth":158,"depth":158,"links":547},[548,549,550],{"id":58,"depth":158,"text":59},{"id":510,"depth":158,"text":511},{"id":534,"depth":158,"text":535},"Understand the difference between local and cloud agents, when to use each, and why your agent list sometimes looks different.",{},4,"\u002Fagents\u002Flocal-agents-vs-cloud-agents",[289,172,290],{"title":59,"description":551},"help\u002Fagents\u002F04.local-agents-vs-cloud-agents","Be-4vHk5EfqKg7bbsFgtIXKdQQP5r0K2nE2eMkpGgNs","Local agents vs cloud agents Understand the difference between local and cloud agents, when to use each, and why your agent list sometimes looks different.",1778463885857]