---
title: "Private"
description: "Learn how to share your pieces privately."
---

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This guide assumes you have already created a piece and created a private fork of our repository, and you would like to package it as a file and upload it.

<Tip>
Friendly Tip: There is a CLI to easily upload it to your platform. Please check out [Publish Custom Pieces](../misc/publish-piece).
</Tip>



<Steps>
    <Step title="Build Piece">
        Build the piece using the following command. Make sure to replace `${name}` with your piece name.

        ```bash
        npm run pieces -- build --name=${name}
        ```

        <Info>
        More information about building pieces can be found [here](../misc/build-piece).
        </Info>
    </Step>
    <Step title="Upload Tarball">
        Upload the generated tarball inside `dist/packages/pieces/${name}`from Activepieces Platform Admin -> Pieces
    
        ![Manage Pieces](/resources/screenshots/install-piece.png)

    </Step>
</Steps>