diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3c8d59d7948..936da36a98d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@
 
 * Add missing descriptions to components and arguments (PR #1018).
 
+* Add `scope` to component and workflow configurations (see https://viash.io/reference/config/scope.html) (PR #1013).
+
 ## BUG FIXES
 
 * Bump viash to 0.9.4. This adds support for nextflow versions starting major version 25.01 and fixes an issue where an integer being passed to a argument with `type: double` resulted in an error (PR #1016).
diff --git a/src/annotate/celltypist/config.vsh.yaml b/src/annotate/celltypist/config.vsh.yaml
index 04578b352bf..ccb8d9fc17c 100644
--- a/src/annotate/celltypist/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/annotate/celltypist/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: celltypist
 namespace: annotate
+scope: "public"
 description: Automated cell type annotation tool for scRNA-seq datasets on the basis of logistic regression classifiers optimised by the stochastic gradient descent algorithm.
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/jakub_majercik.yaml
diff --git a/src/annotate/onclass/config.vsh.yaml b/src/annotate/onclass/config.vsh.yaml
index 25e369a9304..9e5b2c4eab8 100644
--- a/src/annotate/onclass/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/annotate/onclass/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: onclass
 namespace: annotate
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   OnClass is a python package for single-cell cell type annotation. It uses the Cell Ontology to capture the cell type similarity. 
   These similarities enable OnClass to annotate cell types that are never seen in the training data.
diff --git a/src/annotate/popv/config.vsh.yaml b/src/annotate/popv/config.vsh.yaml
index 63f6c16ea1b..d5346165c00 100644
--- a/src/annotate/popv/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/annotate/popv/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: popv
 namespace: "annotate"
+scope: "public"
 description: "Performs popular major vote cell typing on single cell sequence data using multiple algorithms. Note that this is a one-shot version of PopV."
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/matthias_beyens.yaml
diff --git a/src/annotate/random_forest_annotation/config.vsh.yaml b/src/annotate/random_forest_annotation/config.vsh.yaml
index 60112668509..a8def936aad 100644
--- a/src/annotate/random_forest_annotation/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/annotate/random_forest_annotation/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: random_forest_annotation
 namespace: annotate
+scope: "public"
 description: Automated cell type annotation tool for scRNA-seq datasets on the basis of random forest.
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/jakub_majercik.yaml
diff --git a/src/annotate/scanvi/config.vsh.yaml b/src/annotate/scanvi/config.vsh.yaml
index 62e0ac3bf33..ccce4a175a6 100644
--- a/src/annotate/scanvi/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/annotate/scanvi/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: scanvi
 namespace: "annotate"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   scANVI () is a semi-supervised model for single-cell transcriptomics data. scANVI is an scVI extension that can leverage the cell type knowledge for a subset of the cells present in the data sets to infer the states of the rest of the cells.
   This component will instantiate a scANVI model from a pre-trained scVI model, integrate the data and perform label prediction.
diff --git a/src/annotate/svm_annotation/config.vsh.yaml b/src/annotate/svm_annotation/config.vsh.yaml
index 1996bd628b3..6d365fb41cb 100644
--- a/src/annotate/svm_annotation/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/annotate/svm_annotation/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: svm_annotation
 namespace: annotate
+scope: "public"
 description: Automated cell type annotation tool for scRNA-seq datasets on the basis of SVMs.
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/jakub_majercik.yaml
diff --git a/src/cluster/leiden/config.vsh.yaml b/src/cluster/leiden/config.vsh.yaml
index 99c868a04af..670667e43f8 100644
--- a/src/cluster/leiden/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/cluster/leiden/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: leiden
 namespace: "cluster"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Cluster cells using the [Leiden algorithm] [Traag18] implemented in the [Scanpy framework] [Wolf18]. 
   Leiden is an improved version of the [Louvain algorithm] [Blondel08]. 
diff --git a/src/compression/compress_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml b/src/compression/compress_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
index eeb72165fba..d72377a196e 100644
--- a/src/compression/compress_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/compression/compress_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: compress_h5mu
 namespace: "compression"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Compress a MuData file. 
 authors:
diff --git a/src/compression/tar_extract/config.vsh.yaml b/src/compression/tar_extract/config.vsh.yaml
index 9acb9629d95..95272eae7e6 100644
--- a/src/compression/tar_extract/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/compression/tar_extract/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: tar_extract
 namespace: compression
+scope: public
 status: deprecated
 description: Extract files from a tar archive
 arguments:
diff --git a/src/convert/from_10xh5_to_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml b/src/convert/from_10xh5_to_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
index f286133eb73..7e299669d5c 100644
--- a/src/convert/from_10xh5_to_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/convert/from_10xh5_to_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "from_10xh5_to_h5mu"
 namespace: "convert"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Converts a 10x h5 into an h5mu file.
 authors:
diff --git a/src/convert/from_10xmtx_to_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml b/src/convert/from_10xmtx_to_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
index ff1c7e6092c..13f9024ad23 100644
--- a/src/convert/from_10xmtx_to_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/convert/from_10xmtx_to_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "from_10xmtx_to_h5mu"
 namespace: "convert"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Converts a 10x mtx into an h5mu file.
 authors:
diff --git a/src/convert/from_bd_to_10x_molecular_barcode_tags/config.vsh.yaml b/src/convert/from_bd_to_10x_molecular_barcode_tags/config.vsh.yaml
index 76d6ab22522..e8c9147f50d 100644
--- a/src/convert/from_bd_to_10x_molecular_barcode_tags/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/convert/from_bd_to_10x_molecular_barcode_tags/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "from_bd_to_10x_molecular_barcode_tags"
 namespace: "convert"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Convert the molecular barcode sequence SAM tag from BD format (MA) to 10X format (UB).
 authors:
diff --git a/src/convert/from_bdrhap_to_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml b/src/convert/from_bdrhap_to_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
index 5082822338c..3968e7b7f9c 100644
--- a/src/convert/from_bdrhap_to_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/convert/from_bdrhap_to_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "from_bdrhap_to_h5mu"
 namespace: "convert"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Convert the output of a BD Rhapsody pipeline v2.x to a MuData h5 file.
 authors:
diff --git a/src/convert/from_cellranger_multi_to_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml b/src/convert/from_cellranger_multi_to_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
index 7d25ceb7920..36a34f6bdfa 100644
--- a/src/convert/from_cellranger_multi_to_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/convert/from_cellranger_multi_to_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "from_cellranger_multi_to_h5mu"
 namespace: "convert"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Converts the output from cellranger multi to a single .h5mu file.
   By default, will map the following library type names to modality names:
diff --git a/src/convert/from_h5ad_to_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml b/src/convert/from_h5ad_to_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
index 51645f1a77c..33c43d7cb54 100644
--- a/src/convert/from_h5ad_to_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/convert/from_h5ad_to_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: from_h5ad_to_h5mu
 namespace: "convert"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Converts a single layer h5ad file into a single MuData object
 authors:
diff --git a/src/convert/from_h5ad_to_seurat/config.vsh.yaml b/src/convert/from_h5ad_to_seurat/config.vsh.yaml
index e20f6ed6749..f5084c985b4 100644
--- a/src/convert/from_h5ad_to_seurat/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/convert/from_h5ad_to_seurat/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "from_h5ad_to_seurat"
 namespace: "convert"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Converts an h5ad file into a Seurat file.
 authors:
diff --git a/src/convert/from_h5mu_to_h5ad/config.vsh.yaml b/src/convert/from_h5mu_to_h5ad/config.vsh.yaml
index 962f914d964..7570d306a00 100644
--- a/src/convert/from_h5mu_to_h5ad/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/convert/from_h5mu_to_h5ad/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: from_h5mu_to_h5ad
 namespace: "convert"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Converts a h5mu file into a h5ad file.
 authors:
diff --git a/src/convert/from_h5mu_to_seurat/config.vsh.yaml b/src/convert/from_h5mu_to_seurat/config.vsh.yaml
index 50ab03570e9..bc9ba3a3124 100644
--- a/src/convert/from_h5mu_to_seurat/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/convert/from_h5mu_to_seurat/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "from_h5mu_to_seurat"
 namespace: "convert"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Converts an h5mu file into a Seurat file.
 
diff --git a/src/correction/cellbender_remove_background/config.vsh.yaml b/src/correction/cellbender_remove_background/config.vsh.yaml
index c354834d01a..b6172c58d4b 100644
--- a/src/correction/cellbender_remove_background/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/correction/cellbender_remove_background/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: cellbender_remove_background
 namespace: "correction"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Eliminating technical artifacts from high-throughput single-cell RNA sequencing data.
 
diff --git a/src/correction/cellbender_remove_background_v0_2/config.vsh.yaml b/src/correction/cellbender_remove_background_v0_2/config.vsh.yaml
index 9210796985b..bbeaa15d126 100644
--- a/src/correction/cellbender_remove_background_v0_2/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/correction/cellbender_remove_background_v0_2/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: cellbender_remove_background_v0_2
 namespace: "correction"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Eliminating technical artifacts from high-throughput single-cell RNA sequencing data.
 
diff --git a/src/dataflow/concatenate_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml b/src/dataflow/concatenate_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
index 75756bcd12c..8559549a602 100644
--- a/src/dataflow/concatenate_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/dataflow/concatenate_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: concatenate_h5mu
 namespace: "dataflow"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Concatenate observations from samples in several (uni- and/or multi-modal) MuData files into a single file.
 authors:
diff --git a/src/dataflow/merge/config.vsh.yml b/src/dataflow/merge/config.vsh.yml
index ffe982081d5..fbd17393121 100644
--- a/src/dataflow/merge/config.vsh.yml
+++ b/src/dataflow/merge/config.vsh.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: merge
 namespace: "dataflow"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Combine one or more single-modality .h5mu files together into one .h5mu file.
 authors:
diff --git a/src/dataflow/split_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml b/src/dataflow/split_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
index b80d01fbfe9..0bf8dab7f20 100644
--- a/src/dataflow/split_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/dataflow/split_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: split_h5mu
 namespace: "dataflow"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Split the samples of a single modality from a .h5mu (multimodal) sample into seperate .h5mu files based on the values of an .obs column of this modality. 
 authors:
diff --git a/src/dataflow/split_modalities/config.vsh.yaml b/src/dataflow/split_modalities/config.vsh.yaml
index 1d5a76cba09..03a7f000ba9 100644
--- a/src/dataflow/split_modalities/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/dataflow/split_modalities/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: split_modalities
 namespace: "dataflow"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Split the modalities from a single .h5mu multimodal sample into seperate .h5mu files. 
 authors:
diff --git a/src/demux/bcl2fastq/config.vsh.yaml b/src/demux/bcl2fastq/config.vsh.yaml
index 3bce5bf76e5..d260d9fdcee 100644
--- a/src/demux/bcl2fastq/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/demux/bcl2fastq/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: bcl2fastq
 namespace: demux
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Convert bcl files to fastq files using bcl2fastq.
 authors:
diff --git a/src/demux/bcl_convert/config.vsh.yaml b/src/demux/bcl_convert/config.vsh.yaml
index 31214ba895c..6c571a6b523 100644
--- a/src/demux/bcl_convert/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/demux/bcl_convert/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: bcl_convert
 namespace: demux
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Convert bcl files to fastq files using bcl-convert.
   Information about upgrading from bcl2fastq via
diff --git a/src/demux/cellranger_atac_mkfastq/config.vsh.yaml b/src/demux/cellranger_atac_mkfastq/config.vsh.yaml
index 2dd06cfb570..c89ed537c9f 100644
--- a/src/demux/cellranger_atac_mkfastq/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/demux/cellranger_atac_mkfastq/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: cellranger_atac_mkfastq
 namespace: demux
+scope: "public"
 description: Demultiplex raw sequencing data for ATAC experiments
 usage: |
   cellranger_atac_mkfastq \
diff --git a/src/demux/cellranger_mkfastq/config.vsh.yaml b/src/demux/cellranger_mkfastq/config.vsh.yaml
index 1751bff1c29..fd1eb572f23 100644
--- a/src/demux/cellranger_mkfastq/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/demux/cellranger_mkfastq/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: cellranger_mkfastq
 namespace: demux
+scope: "public"
 description: Demultiplex raw sequencing data
 usage: |
   cellranger_mkfastq \
diff --git a/src/dimred/densmap/config.vsh.yaml b/src/dimred/densmap/config.vsh.yaml
index 9f23a22a3f2..1282052c29c 100644
--- a/src/dimred/densmap/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/dimred/densmap/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: densmap
 namespace: "dimred"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   A modification of UMAP that adds an extra cost term in order to preserve information 
   about the relative local density of the data. It is performed on the same inputs as UMAP.
diff --git a/src/dimred/lsi/config.vsh.yaml b/src/dimred/lsi/config.vsh.yaml
index 5ef07638a3d..5824aaa9548 100644
--- a/src/dimred/lsi/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/dimred/lsi/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: lsi
 namespace: "dimred"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Runs Latent Semantic Indexing. Computes cell embeddings, feature loadings and singular values. Uses the implementation of scipy.
 authors:
diff --git a/src/dimred/pca/config.vsh.yaml b/src/dimred/pca/config.vsh.yaml
index 84c4165ba27..70452271cd8 100644
--- a/src/dimred/pca/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/dimred/pca/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: pca
 namespace: "dimred"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Computes PCA coordinates, loadings and variance decomposition. Uses the implementation of scikit-learn [Pedregosa11].
 authors:
diff --git a/src/dimred/tsne/config.vsh.yaml b/src/dimred/tsne/config.vsh.yaml
index 9f3f200179d..57cbbf4d856 100644
--- a/src/dimred/tsne/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/dimred/tsne/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: tsne
 namespace: "dimred"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   t-SNE (t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding) is a dimensionality reduction technique used to visualize high-dimensional data in a low-dimensional space, revealing patterns and clusters by preserving local data similarities.
 authors:
diff --git a/src/dimred/umap/config.vsh.yaml b/src/dimred/umap/config.vsh.yaml
index 3fe11628342..1b4b82a9504 100644
--- a/src/dimred/umap/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/dimred/umap/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: umap
 namespace: "dimred"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   UMAP (Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection) is a manifold learning technique suitable for visualizing high-dimensional data. Besides tending to be faster than tSNE, it optimizes the embedding such that it best reflects the topology of the data, which we represent throughout Scanpy using a neighborhood graph. tSNE, by contrast, optimizes the distribution of nearest-neighbor distances in the embedding such that these best match the distribution of distances in the high-dimensional space. We use the implementation of umap-learn [McInnes18]. For a few comparisons of UMAP with tSNE, see this preprint.
 authors:
diff --git a/src/download/download_file/config.vsh.yaml b/src/download/download_file/config.vsh.yaml
index 8bdd75c4c2a..eb58b36ed13 100644
--- a/src/download/download_file/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/download/download_file/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "download_file"
 namespace: "download"
+scope: "test"
 status: "deprecated"
 description: |
   Download a file.
diff --git a/src/download/sync_test_resources/config.vsh.yaml b/src/download/sync_test_resources/config.vsh.yaml
index 20378ef094c..8c88ad31e8b 100644
--- a/src/download/sync_test_resources/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/download/sync_test_resources/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "sync_test_resources"
 namespace: "download"
+scope: "test"
 description: Sync test resources to the local filesystem
 usage: |
   sync_test_resources
diff --git a/src/feature_annotation/align_query_reference/config.vsh.yaml b/src/feature_annotation/align_query_reference/config.vsh.yaml
index da2803f4ba3..03bb5d73fb0 100644
--- a/src/feature_annotation/align_query_reference/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/feature_annotation/align_query_reference/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: align_query_reference
 namespace: feature_annotation
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Alignment of a query and reference dataset by:
   * Alignment of layers
diff --git a/src/feature_annotation/highly_variable_features_scanpy/config.vsh.yaml b/src/feature_annotation/highly_variable_features_scanpy/config.vsh.yaml
index 27c165187f3..9efad017c75 100644
--- a/src/feature_annotation/highly_variable_features_scanpy/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/feature_annotation/highly_variable_features_scanpy/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: highly_variable_features_scanpy
 namespace: feature_annotation
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Annotate highly variable features [Satija15] [Zheng17] [Stuart19].
 
diff --git a/src/feature_annotation/score_genes_cell_cycle_scanpy/config.vsh.yaml b/src/feature_annotation/score_genes_cell_cycle_scanpy/config.vsh.yaml
index d84c25cc78b..22cb0e8c2a1 100644
--- a/src/feature_annotation/score_genes_cell_cycle_scanpy/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/feature_annotation/score_genes_cell_cycle_scanpy/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: score_genes_cell_cycle_scanpy
 namespace: feature_annotation
+scope: "public"
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/robrecht_cannoodt.yaml
     roles: [ author ]
diff --git a/src/feature_annotation/score_genes_scanpy/config.vsh.yaml b/src/feature_annotation/score_genes_scanpy/config.vsh.yaml
index 108fbf1dfc5..508674049ad 100644
--- a/src/feature_annotation/score_genes_scanpy/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/feature_annotation/score_genes_scanpy/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: score_genes_scanpy
 namespace: feature_annotation
+scope: "public"
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/robrecht_cannoodt.yaml
     roles: [ author ]
diff --git a/src/files/make_params/config.vsh.yaml b/src/files/make_params/config.vsh.yaml
index 402916fdd72..5755a8802b3 100644
--- a/src/files/make_params/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/files/make_params/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: make_params
 namespace: "files"
+scope: "public"
 description: "Looks for files in a directory and turn it in a params file."
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/angela_pisco.yaml
diff --git a/src/filter/delimit_fraction/config.vsh.yaml b/src/filter/delimit_fraction/config.vsh.yaml
index 37fe7adc974..f914582af34 100644
--- a/src/filter/delimit_fraction/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/filter/delimit_fraction/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: delimit_fraction
 namespace: "filter"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Turns a column containing values between 0 and 1 into a boolean column based on thresholds.
 authors:
diff --git a/src/filter/do_filter/config.vsh.yaml b/src/filter/do_filter/config.vsh.yaml
index 5be48732885..2f0cd25e760 100644
--- a/src/filter/do_filter/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/filter/do_filter/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: do_filter
 namespace: "filter"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Remove observations and variables based on specified .obs and .var columns.
 authors:
diff --git a/src/filter/filter_with_counts/config.vsh.yaml b/src/filter/filter_with_counts/config.vsh.yaml
index c717481a775..51986fe10a3 100644
--- a/src/filter/filter_with_counts/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/filter/filter_with_counts/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: filter_with_counts
 namespace: "filter"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Filter scRNA-seq data based on the primary QC metrics. 
   This is based on both the UMI counts, the gene counts 
diff --git a/src/filter/filter_with_scrublet/config.vsh.yaml b/src/filter/filter_with_scrublet/config.vsh.yaml
index 00b96c590a0..795d272e2fd 100644
--- a/src/filter/filter_with_scrublet/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/filter/filter_with_scrublet/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: filter_with_scrublet
 namespace: "filter"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Doublet detection using the Scrublet method (Wolock, Lopez and Klein, 2019).
   The method tests for potential doublets by using the expression profiles of
diff --git a/src/filter/intersect_obs/config.vsh.yaml b/src/filter/intersect_obs/config.vsh.yaml
index 43a885707ff..16715ab1ba7 100644
--- a/src/filter/intersect_obs/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/filter/intersect_obs/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: intersect_obs
 namespace: "filter"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Create an intersection between two or more modalities.
   
diff --git a/src/filter/remove_modality/config.vsh.yaml b/src/filter/remove_modality/config.vsh.yaml
index c3427766fd4..bb87e7afa40 100644
--- a/src/filter/remove_modality/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/filter/remove_modality/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: remove_modality
 namespace: "filter"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Remove a modality from a .h5mu file
 authors:
diff --git a/src/filter/subset_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml b/src/filter/subset_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
index 5b84abe6e96..60ff23d9283 100644
--- a/src/filter/subset_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/filter/subset_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: subset_h5mu
 namespace: "filter"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Create a subset of a mudata file by selecting the first number of observations
 authors:
diff --git a/src/filter/subset_obsp/config.vsh.yaml b/src/filter/subset_obsp/config.vsh.yaml
index c2d3ae13cd3..38667bdebdb 100644
--- a/src/filter/subset_obsp/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/filter/subset_obsp/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: subset_obsp
 namespace: "filter"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Create a subset of an .obsp field in a mudata file, by filtering the columns based on the values of an .obs column. The resulting subset is moved to an .obsm slot.
 authors:
diff --git a/src/genetic_demux/bcftools/config.vsh.yaml b/src/genetic_demux/bcftools/config.vsh.yaml
index 737b2b95f9f..597dce481a4 100644
--- a/src/genetic_demux/bcftools/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/genetic_demux/bcftools/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: bcftools
 namespace: genetic_demux
+scope: "public"
 description: Filter the variants called by freebayes or cellSNP
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/xichen_wu.yaml
diff --git a/src/genetic_demux/cellsnp/config.vsh.yaml b/src/genetic_demux/cellsnp/config.vsh.yaml
index d0414f6cc92..9e7c1221a84 100755
--- a/src/genetic_demux/cellsnp/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/genetic_demux/cellsnp/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: cellsnp
 namespace: genetic_demux
+scope: "public"
 description: "cellSNP aims to pileup the expressed alleles in single-cell or bulk RNA-seq data. It can be directly used for donor deconvolution in multiplexed single-cell RNA-seq data, particularly with vireo."
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/xichen_wu.yaml
diff --git a/src/genetic_demux/demuxlet/config.vsh.yaml b/src/genetic_demux/demuxlet/config.vsh.yaml
index 6068446b12c..8529c638f49 100644
--- a/src/genetic_demux/demuxlet/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/genetic_demux/demuxlet/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: demuxlet
 namespace: genetic_demux
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Demuxlet is a software tool to deconvolute sample identity and identify multiplets when
   multiple samples are pooled by barcoded single cell sequencing. If external genotyping data
diff --git a/src/genetic_demux/dsc_pileup/config.vsh.yaml b/src/genetic_demux/dsc_pileup/config.vsh.yaml
index 8273090ea46..70576eb22a9 100644
--- a/src/genetic_demux/dsc_pileup/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/genetic_demux/dsc_pileup/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: dsc_pileup
 namespace: genetic_demux
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Dsc-pileup is a software tool to pileup reads and corresponding base quality 
   for each overlapping SNPs and each barcode. By using pileup files,
diff --git a/src/genetic_demux/freebayes/config.vsh.yaml b/src/genetic_demux/freebayes/config.vsh.yaml
index c79fbc78fb9..54698445d25 100755
--- a/src/genetic_demux/freebayes/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/genetic_demux/freebayes/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: freebayes
 namespace: genetic_demux
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Freebayes is a Bayesian genetic variant detector designed to
   find small polymorphisms, specifically SNPs.
diff --git a/src/genetic_demux/freemuxlet/config.vsh.yaml b/src/genetic_demux/freemuxlet/config.vsh.yaml
index ea25336081a..acd463eff4a 100644
--- a/src/genetic_demux/freemuxlet/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/genetic_demux/freemuxlet/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: freemuxlet
 namespace: genetic_demux
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Freemuxlet is a software tool to deconvolute sample identity and identify multiplets when
   multiple samples are pooled by barcoded single cell sequencing. If external genotyping
diff --git a/src/genetic_demux/samtools/config.vsh.yaml b/src/genetic_demux/samtools/config.vsh.yaml
index 83945308bfd..7b5ab841c83 100644
--- a/src/genetic_demux/samtools/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/genetic_demux/samtools/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: samtools
 namespace: genetic_demux
+scope: "public"
 description: Filter the BAM according to the instruction of scSplit via Samtools.
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/xichen_wu.yaml
diff --git a/src/genetic_demux/scsplit/config.vsh.yaml b/src/genetic_demux/scsplit/config.vsh.yaml
index 1fe8dda3670..9d9b450b980 100644
--- a/src/genetic_demux/scsplit/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/genetic_demux/scsplit/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: scsplit
 namespace: genetic_demux
+scope: "public"
 description: "scsplit is a genotype-free demultiplexing methode of pooled single-cell RNA-seq, using a hidden state model for identifying genetically distinct samples within a mixed population."
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/xichen_wu.yaml
diff --git a/src/genetic_demux/souporcell/config.vsh.yaml b/src/genetic_demux/souporcell/config.vsh.yaml
index babba5f4c54..d2de2b1110c 100755
--- a/src/genetic_demux/souporcell/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/genetic_demux/souporcell/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: souporcell
 namespace: genetic_demux
+scope: "public"
 description: "souporcell is a method for clustering mixed-genotype scRNAseq experiments by individual."
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/xichen_wu.yaml
diff --git a/src/genetic_demux/vireo/config.vsh.yaml b/src/genetic_demux/vireo/config.vsh.yaml
index 2a56e7bfd76..6c88c30205c 100644
--- a/src/genetic_demux/vireo/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/genetic_demux/vireo/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: vireo
 namespace: genetic_demux
+scope: "public"
 description: "Vireo is primarily designed for demultiplexing cells into donors by modelling of expressed alleles."
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/xichen_wu.yaml
diff --git a/src/integrate/harmony/config.vsh.yaml b/src/integrate/harmony/config.vsh.yaml
index 5a848ab0d17..d3370cdaf1e 100644
--- a/src/integrate/harmony/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/integrate/harmony/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: harmony
 namespace: "integrate"
+scope: "public"
 status: disabled
 description: "Performs Harmony integration based as described in https://github.com/immunogenomics/harmony."
 authors:
diff --git a/src/integrate/harmonypy/config.vsh.yaml b/src/integrate/harmonypy/config.vsh.yaml
index 23e6ea98ffd..0b6bc07ced0 100644
--- a/src/integrate/harmonypy/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/integrate/harmonypy/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: harmonypy
 namespace: "integrate"
+scope: "public"
 description: "Performs Harmony integration based as described in https://github.com/immunogenomics/harmony.
               Based on an implementation in python from https://github.com/slowkow/harmonypy"
 authors:
diff --git a/src/integrate/scanorama/config.vsh.yaml b/src/integrate/scanorama/config.vsh.yaml
index 54723344c53..9db3a3fff13 100644
--- a/src/integrate/scanorama/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/integrate/scanorama/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: scanorama
 namespace: "integrate"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Use Scanorama to integrate different experiments.
 authors:
diff --git a/src/integrate/scarches/config.vsh.yaml b/src/integrate/scarches/config.vsh.yaml
index fd3480bcd6e..4a3336b443e 100644
--- a/src/integrate/scarches/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/integrate/scarches/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: scarches
 namespace: "integrate"
+scope: "public"
 description: "Performs reference mapping with scArches"
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/vladimir_shitov.yaml
diff --git a/src/integrate/scvi/config.vsh.yaml b/src/integrate/scvi/config.vsh.yaml
index 7f9c25c441b..bfb2eeb69e5 100644
--- a/src/integrate/scvi/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/integrate/scvi/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: scvi
 namespace: "integrate"
+scope: "public"
 description: "Performs scvi integration as done in the human lung cell atlas https://github.com/LungCellAtlas/HLCA"
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/malte_luecken.yaml
diff --git a/src/integrate/totalvi/config.vsh.yaml b/src/integrate/totalvi/config.vsh.yaml
index 9a150326ef0..dd10b6eb5c5 100644
--- a/src/integrate/totalvi/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/integrate/totalvi/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: totalvi
 namespace: "integrate"
+scope: "public"
 description: "Performs mapping to the reference by totalvi model: https://docs.scvi-tools.org/en/stable/tutorials/notebooks/scarches_scvi_tools.html#Reference-mapping-with-TOTALVI"
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/vladimir_shitov.yaml
diff --git a/src/interpret/lianapy/config.vsh.yaml b/src/interpret/lianapy/config.vsh.yaml
index 48907bfdf99..a3e15963488 100644
--- a/src/interpret/lianapy/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/interpret/lianapy/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: lianapy
 namespace: "interpret"
+scope: "public"
 description: "Performs LIANA integration based as described in https://github.com/saezlab/liana-py"
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/mauro_saporita.yaml
diff --git a/src/labels_transfer/knn/config.vsh.yaml b/src/labels_transfer/knn/config.vsh.yaml
index 3401ca963fc..c3c82bd0327 100644
--- a/src/labels_transfer/knn/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/labels_transfer/knn/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: knn
 namespace: "labels_transfer"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   This component performs label transfer from reference to query using a K-Neirest Neighbors classifier.
 authors:
diff --git a/src/labels_transfer/xgboost/config.vsh.yaml b/src/labels_transfer/xgboost/config.vsh.yaml
index c80ec89e85e..c022584e41f 100644
--- a/src/labels_transfer/xgboost/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/labels_transfer/xgboost/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: xgboost
 namespace: "labels_transfer"
+scope: "public"
 description: "Performs label transfer from reference to query using XGBoost classifier"
 info:
   method_id: XGBClassifier
diff --git a/src/mapping/bd_rhapsody/config.vsh.yaml b/src/mapping/bd_rhapsody/config.vsh.yaml
index f786a5f727e..cef897041d3 100644
--- a/src/mapping/bd_rhapsody/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/mapping/bd_rhapsody/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "bd_rhapsody"
 namespace: "mapping"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   BD Rhapsody Sequence Analysis CWL pipeline v2.2.1
     
diff --git a/src/mapping/cellranger_atac_count/config.vsh.yaml b/src/mapping/cellranger_atac_count/config.vsh.yaml
index 10fa97fe517..a5d8ee592b7 100644
--- a/src/mapping/cellranger_atac_count/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/mapping/cellranger_atac_count/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: cellranger_atac_count
 namespace: mapping
+scope: "public"
 description: Align fastq files using Cell Ranger ATAC count.
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/vladimir_shitov.yaml
diff --git a/src/mapping/cellranger_count/config.vsh.yaml b/src/mapping/cellranger_count/config.vsh.yaml
index 8e3024296a5..ef2a3eafad0 100644
--- a/src/mapping/cellranger_count/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/mapping/cellranger_count/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: cellranger_count
 namespace: mapping
+scope: "public"
 description: Align fastq files using Cell Ranger count.
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/angela_pisco.yaml
diff --git a/src/mapping/cellranger_count_split/config.vsh.yaml b/src/mapping/cellranger_count_split/config.vsh.yaml
index 2bec7ef1c28..1db809f67e0 100644
--- a/src/mapping/cellranger_count_split/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/mapping/cellranger_count_split/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: cellranger_count_split
 namespace: mapping
+scope: "public"
 description: Split 10x Cell Ranger output directory into separate output fields.
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/angela_pisco.yaml
diff --git a/src/mapping/cellranger_multi/config.vsh.yaml b/src/mapping/cellranger_multi/config.vsh.yaml
index 1bebd4e552e..b463f85f309 100644
--- a/src/mapping/cellranger_multi/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/mapping/cellranger_multi/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: cellranger_multi
 namespace: mapping
+scope: "public"
 description: Align fastq files using Cell Ranger multi.
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/angela_pisco.yaml
diff --git a/src/mapping/htseq_count/config.vsh.yaml b/src/mapping/htseq_count/config.vsh.yaml
index b661eda457b..9895d8634f7 100644
--- a/src/mapping/htseq_count/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/mapping/htseq_count/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: htseq_count
 namespace: mapping
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Quantify gene expression for subsequent testing for differential expression.
 
diff --git a/src/mapping/htseq_count_to_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml b/src/mapping/htseq_count_to_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
index 4a731c7c5a1..c40e27ba57c 100644
--- a/src/mapping/htseq_count_to_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/mapping/htseq_count_to_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: htseq_count_to_h5mu
 namespace: mapping
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Convert the htseq table to a h5mu.
 authors:
diff --git a/src/mapping/multi_star/config.vsh.yaml b/src/mapping/multi_star/config.vsh.yaml
index f9a248566ec..099c4c6501d 100644
--- a/src/mapping/multi_star/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/mapping/multi_star/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: multi_star
 namespace: mapping
+scope: "public"
 description: Align fastq files using STAR.
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/angela_pisco.yaml
diff --git a/src/mapping/multi_star_to_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml b/src/mapping/multi_star_to_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
index 1b84d6170a5..27b5835a48d 100644
--- a/src/mapping/multi_star_to_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/mapping/multi_star_to_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: multi_star_to_h5mu
 namespace: mapping
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Convert the output of `multi_star` to a h5mu.
 authors:
diff --git a/src/mapping/samtools_sort/config.vsh.yaml b/src/mapping/samtools_sort/config.vsh.yaml
index 9c9a7ca3257..08f09ecc69c 100644
--- a/src/mapping/samtools_sort/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/mapping/samtools_sort/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: samtools_sort
 namespace: mapping
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Sort and (optionally) index alignments.
   
diff --git a/src/mapping/star_align/config.vsh.yaml b/src/mapping/star_align/config.vsh.yaml
index 8eb7fad573e..1b020a2672e 100644
--- a/src/mapping/star_align/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/mapping/star_align/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: star_align
 namespace: mapping
+scope: "public"
 description: Align fastq files using STAR.
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/angela_pisco.yaml
diff --git a/src/mapping/star_align_v273a/config.vsh.yaml b/src/mapping/star_align_v273a/config.vsh.yaml
index 19ea19f0fb4..3a03d2421bc 100644
--- a/src/mapping/star_align_v273a/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/mapping/star_align_v273a/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: star_align_v273a
 namespace: mapping
+scope: "public"
 description: Align fastq files using STAR.
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/angela_pisco.yaml
diff --git a/src/metadata/add_id/config.vsh.yaml b/src/metadata/add_id/config.vsh.yaml
index f16c33f35dc..919f075727c 100644
--- a/src/metadata/add_id/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/metadata/add_id/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: add_id
 namespace: "metadata"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Add id of .obs. Also allows to make .obs_names (the .obs index) unique 
   by prefixing the values with an unique id per .h5mu file.
diff --git a/src/metadata/grep_annotation_column/config.vsh.yaml b/src/metadata/grep_annotation_column/config.vsh.yaml
index f9a9c1e7097..c1387d430f5 100644
--- a/src/metadata/grep_annotation_column/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/metadata/grep_annotation_column/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: grep_annotation_column
 namespace: "metadata"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Perform a regex lookup on a column from the annotation matrices .obs or .var.
   The annotation matrix can originate from either a modality, or all modalities (global .var or .obs).
diff --git a/src/metadata/join_csv/config.vsh.yml b/src/metadata/join_csv/config.vsh.yml
index ddd3ef0830e..53ae52aac76 100644
--- a/src/metadata/join_csv/config.vsh.yml
+++ b/src/metadata/join_csv/config.vsh.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: join_csv
 namespace: "metadata"
+scope: "public"
 description: "Join a csv containing metadata to the .obs or .var field of a mudata file."
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/dries_schaumont.yaml
diff --git a/src/metadata/join_uns_to_obs/config.vsh.yml b/src/metadata/join_uns_to_obs/config.vsh.yml
index e0c5a68ed51..9583d698248 100644
--- a/src/metadata/join_uns_to_obs/config.vsh.yml
+++ b/src/metadata/join_uns_to_obs/config.vsh.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: join_uns_to_obs
 namespace: "metadata"
+scope: "public"
 description: "Join a data frame of length 1 (1 row index value) in .uns containing metadata to the .obs of a mudata file."
 arguments:
   - name: "--input"
diff --git a/src/metadata/move_obsm_to_obs/config.vsh.yaml b/src/metadata/move_obsm_to_obs/config.vsh.yaml
index dcbe2318712..d4a439611e1 100644
--- a/src/metadata/move_obsm_to_obs/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/metadata/move_obsm_to_obs/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: move_obsm_to_obs
 namespace: "metadata"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Move a matrix from .obsm to .obs. Newly created columns in .obs will 
   be created from the .obsm key suffixed with an underscore and the name of the columns
diff --git a/src/neighbors/bbknn/config.vsh.yaml b/src/neighbors/bbknn/config.vsh.yaml
index ada23d8158f..e2d5bbb61a1 100644
--- a/src/neighbors/bbknn/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/neighbors/bbknn/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: bbknn
 namespace: "neighbors"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   BBKNN network generation
 authors:
diff --git a/src/neighbors/find_neighbors/config.vsh.yaml b/src/neighbors/find_neighbors/config.vsh.yaml
index 3e4dfe9fe78..fd6bd43a8c7 100644
--- a/src/neighbors/find_neighbors/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/neighbors/find_neighbors/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: find_neighbors
 namespace: "neighbors"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Compute a neighborhood graph of observations [McInnes18].
 
diff --git a/src/process_10xh5/filter_10xh5/config.vsh.yaml b/src/process_10xh5/filter_10xh5/config.vsh.yaml
index 1a5ad141686..9e0e6a980da 100644
--- a/src/process_10xh5/filter_10xh5/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/process_10xh5/filter_10xh5/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: filter_10xh5
 namespace: "process_10xh5"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Filter a 10x h5 dataset.
 usage: | 
diff --git a/src/qc/calculate_atac_qc_metrics/config.vsh.yaml b/src/qc/calculate_atac_qc_metrics/config.vsh.yaml
index b3b8d645e74..81e94530ac8 100644
--- a/src/qc/calculate_atac_qc_metrics/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/qc/calculate_atac_qc_metrics/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: calculate_atac_qc_metrics
 namespace: "qc"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Add basic ATAC quality control metrics to an .h5mu file.
 
diff --git a/src/qc/calculate_qc_metrics/config.vsh.yaml b/src/qc/calculate_qc_metrics/config.vsh.yaml
index 8c0ae77c145..bb260783d30 100644
--- a/src/qc/calculate_qc_metrics/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/qc/calculate_qc_metrics/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: calculate_qc_metrics
 namespace: "qc"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Add basic quality control metrics to an .h5mu file.
 
diff --git a/src/qc/fastqc/config.vsh.yaml b/src/qc/fastqc/config.vsh.yaml
index 4c7207131a3..1bce6130c6b 100644
--- a/src/qc/fastqc/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/qc/fastqc/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "fastqc"
 namespace: "qc"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Fastqc component, please see https://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/projects/fastqc/. This component can take one or more files (by means of shell globbing) or a complete directory.
 arguments:
diff --git a/src/qc/multiqc/config.vsh.yaml b/src/qc/multiqc/config.vsh.yaml
index e2c9acd682b..2e0fc5e85bc 100644
--- a/src/qc/multiqc/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/qc/multiqc/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "multiqc"
 namespace: "qc"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   MultiQC aggregates results from bioinformatics analyses across many samples into a single report.
   It searches a given directory for analysis logs and compiles a HTML report. It's a general use tool, perfect for summarising the output from numerous bioinformatics tools.
diff --git a/src/query/cellxgene_census/config.vsh.yaml b/src/query/cellxgene_census/config.vsh.yaml
index 01e295d2b49..0790e71dd59 100644
--- a/src/query/cellxgene_census/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/query/cellxgene_census/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: cellxgene_census
 namespace: query
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Query cells from a CellxGene Census or custom TileDBSoma object.
   Aside from fetching the cells' RNA counts (`.X`), cell metadata
diff --git a/src/reference/build_bdrhap_reference/config.vsh.yaml b/src/reference/build_bdrhap_reference/config.vsh.yaml
index d86f0a80ade..30b838236e6 100644
--- a/src/reference/build_bdrhap_reference/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/reference/build_bdrhap_reference/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: build_bdrhap_reference
 namespace: reference
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   The Reference Files Generator creates an archive containing Genome Index
   and Transcriptome annotation files needed for the BD Rhapsody Sequencing
diff --git a/src/reference/build_cellranger_arc_reference/config.vsh.yaml b/src/reference/build_cellranger_arc_reference/config.vsh.yaml
index 552c99de1bb..f119ac84de3 100644
--- a/src/reference/build_cellranger_arc_reference/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/reference/build_cellranger_arc_reference/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: build_cellranger_arc_reference
 namespace: reference
+scope: "public"
 description: Build a Cell Ranger-arc and -atac compatible reference folder from user-supplied genome FASTA and gene GTF files. Creates a new folder named after the genome.
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/vladimir_shitov.yaml
diff --git a/src/reference/build_cellranger_reference/config.vsh.yaml b/src/reference/build_cellranger_reference/config.vsh.yaml
index b3421000cb3..7d13a07a267 100644
--- a/src/reference/build_cellranger_reference/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/reference/build_cellranger_reference/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: build_cellranger_reference
 namespace: reference
+scope: "public"
 description: Build a Cell Ranger-compatible reference folder from user-supplied genome FASTA and gene GTF files. Creates a new folder named after the genome.
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/angela_pisco.yaml
diff --git a/src/reference/build_star_reference/config.vsh.yml b/src/reference/build_star_reference/config.vsh.yml
index 64323da5bc2..bf258475d50 100644
--- a/src/reference/build_star_reference/config.vsh.yml
+++ b/src/reference/build_star_reference/config.vsh.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: build_star_reference
 namespace: reference
+scope: "public"
 description: Create a reference for STAR from a set of fasta files.
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/dries_schaumont.yaml
diff --git a/src/reference/cellranger_mkgtf/config.vsh.yaml b/src/reference/cellranger_mkgtf/config.vsh.yaml
index 496fc4d82a6..f07441ea810 100644
--- a/src/reference/cellranger_mkgtf/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/reference/cellranger_mkgtf/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: cellranger_mkgtf
 namespace: reference
+scope: "public"
 description: Make a GTF file - filter by a specific attribute.
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/jakub_majercik.yaml
diff --git a/src/reference/make_reference/config.vsh.yaml b/src/reference/make_reference/config.vsh.yaml
index c8a3e920c68..62fb7cc1289 100644
--- a/src/reference/make_reference/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/reference/make_reference/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: make_reference
 namespace: reference
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Preprocess and build a transcriptome reference.
 
diff --git a/src/report/mermaid/config.vsh.yaml b/src/report/mermaid/config.vsh.yaml
index c8d1414e15e..dbf4339176a 100644
--- a/src/report/mermaid/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/report/mermaid/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: mermaid
 namespace: "report"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Generates a network from mermaid code.
 authors:
diff --git a/src/scgpt/binning/config.vsh.yaml b/src/scgpt/binning/config.vsh.yaml
index 7b6caced379..2d3fcdb0486 100644
--- a/src/scgpt/binning/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/scgpt/binning/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: binning
 namespace: "scgpt"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Conversion of (pre-processed) expression count data into relative values (bins) to address scale differences across sequencing batches.
 authors:
diff --git a/src/scgpt/cell_type_annotation/config.vsh.yaml b/src/scgpt/cell_type_annotation/config.vsh.yaml
index 07806b36abd..165cb3b74d8 100644
--- a/src/scgpt/cell_type_annotation/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/scgpt/cell_type_annotation/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: cell_type_annotation
 namespace: "scgpt"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Annotate gene expression data with cell type classes through the scGPT model.
 authors:
diff --git a/src/scgpt/cross_check_genes/config.vsh.yaml b/src/scgpt/cross_check_genes/config.vsh.yaml
index 2250e4a3214..c51bd606b6f 100644
--- a/src/scgpt/cross_check_genes/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/scgpt/cross_check_genes/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: cross_check_genes
 namespace: "scgpt"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Cross-check genes with pre-trained scGPT model.
 authors:
diff --git a/src/scgpt/embedding/config.vsh.yaml b/src/scgpt/embedding/config.vsh.yaml
index 20d214b7983..fd238696c1e 100644
--- a/src/scgpt/embedding/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/scgpt/embedding/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: embedding
 namespace: scgpt
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Generation of cell embeddings for the integration of single cell transcriptomic count data using scGPT.
 authors:
diff --git a/src/scgpt/pad_tokenize/config.vsh.yaml b/src/scgpt/pad_tokenize/config.vsh.yaml
index 6a5498f3980..6efa9a01948 100644
--- a/src/scgpt/pad_tokenize/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/scgpt/pad_tokenize/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: pad_tokenize
 namespace: "scgpt"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Tokenize and pad a batch of data for scGPT integration zero-shot inference or fine-tuning.
 authors:
diff --git a/src/transform/bpcells_regress_out/config.vsh.yaml b/src/transform/bpcells_regress_out/config.vsh.yaml
index 65becb43db0..cab5a81f9d5 100644
--- a/src/transform/bpcells_regress_out/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/transform/bpcells_regress_out/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: bpcells_regress_out
 namespace: "transform"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Regress out the effects of confounding variables using a linear least squares regression model with BPCells.
 authors:
diff --git a/src/transform/clr/config.vsh.yaml b/src/transform/clr/config.vsh.yaml
index e2aac00da13..1f33d84761f 100644
--- a/src/transform/clr/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/transform/clr/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: clr
 namespace: "transform"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Perform CLR normalization on CITE-seq data (Stoeckius et al., 2017).
 authors:
diff --git a/src/transform/delete_layer/config.vsh.yaml b/src/transform/delete_layer/config.vsh.yaml
index cb932d81b8c..2a380993683 100644
--- a/src/transform/delete_layer/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/transform/delete_layer/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: delete_layer
 namespace: "transform"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Delete an anndata layer from one or more modalities.
 authors:
diff --git a/src/transform/log1p/config.vsh.yaml b/src/transform/log1p/config.vsh.yaml
index 329fc3b9956..69112f9a0b8 100644
--- a/src/transform/log1p/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/transform/log1p/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: log1p
 namespace: "transform"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Logarithmize the data matrix. Computes X = log(X + 1), where log denotes the natural logarithm unless a different base is given.
 authors:
diff --git a/src/transform/move_layer/config.vsh.yaml b/src/transform/move_layer/config.vsh.yaml
index e39e437c984..a7dd5e6c255 100644
--- a/src/transform/move_layer/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/transform/move_layer/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: move_layer
 namespace: "transform"
+scope: "public"
 description: "Move a data matrix stored at the .layers or .X attributes in a MuData object to another layer."
 arguments:
   - name: "--input"
diff --git a/src/transform/normalize_total/config.vsh.yaml b/src/transform/normalize_total/config.vsh.yaml
index f5e47ec8ce2..5fb4d8700c8 100644
--- a/src/transform/normalize_total/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/transform/normalize_total/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: normalize_total
 namespace: "transform"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Normalize counts per cell.
 
diff --git a/src/transform/regress_out/config.vsh.yaml b/src/transform/regress_out/config.vsh.yaml
index f6fa2eff515..a8b4ac6eb1a 100644
--- a/src/transform/regress_out/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/transform/regress_out/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: regress_out
 namespace: "transform"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Regress out (mostly) unwanted sources of variation.
   Uses simple linear regression. This is inspired by Seurat's regressOut function in R [Satija15]. 
diff --git a/src/transform/scale/config.vsh.yaml b/src/transform/scale/config.vsh.yaml
index 4e80bc666fd..61998ba8e79 100644
--- a/src/transform/scale/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/transform/scale/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: scale
 namespace: "transform"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Scale data to unit variance and zero mean.
 authors:
diff --git a/src/transform/tfidf/config.vsh.yaml b/src/transform/tfidf/config.vsh.yaml
index 17b29567cc6..11820f13ef1 100644
--- a/src/transform/tfidf/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/transform/tfidf/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: tfidf
 namespace: "transform"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Perform TF-IDF normalization of the data (typically, ATAC).
 
diff --git a/src/velocity/scvelo/config.vsh.yaml b/src/velocity/scvelo/config.vsh.yaml
index 5672d325fbc..8a0f87ae963 100644
--- a/src/velocity/scvelo/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/velocity/scvelo/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: scvelo
 namespace: "velocity"
+scope: "public"
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/dries_schaumont.yaml
     roles: [ maintainer ]
diff --git a/src/velocity/velocyto/config.vsh.yaml b/src/velocity/velocyto/config.vsh.yaml
index 966a7ef0727..cfd16aa9d71 100644
--- a/src/velocity/velocyto/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/velocity/velocyto/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: velocyto
 namespace: "velocity"
+scope: "public"
 description: "Runs the velocity analysis on a BAM file, outputting a loom file."
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/robrecht_cannoodt.yaml
diff --git a/src/velocity/velocyto_to_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml b/src/velocity/velocyto_to_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
index 3ab3247223f..6ad91a8fa19 100644
--- a/src/velocity/velocyto_to_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/velocity/velocyto_to_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "velocyto_to_h5mu"
 namespace: "convert"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Convert a velocyto loom file to a h5mu file.
 
diff --git a/src/workflows/annotation/harmony_knn/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/annotation/harmony_knn/config.vsh.yaml
index 0cdcc1c06c4..8c36bb88b68 100644
--- a/src/workflows/annotation/harmony_knn/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/annotation/harmony_knn/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "harmony_knn"
 namespace: "workflows/annotation"
+scope: "public"
 description: "Cell type annotation workflow by performing harmony integration of reference and query dataset followed by KNN label transfer."
 info:
   name: "Harmony integration followed by KNN label transfer"
diff --git a/src/workflows/annotation/scanvi_scarches/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/annotation/scanvi_scarches/config.vsh.yaml
index 039254cf988..25529e1a871 100644
--- a/src/workflows/annotation/scanvi_scarches/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/annotation/scanvi_scarches/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "scanvi_scarches"
 namespace: "workflows/annotation"
+scope: "public"
 description: "Cell type annotation workflow using ScanVI with scArches for reference mapping."
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/dorien_roosen.yaml
diff --git a/src/workflows/annotation/scgpt_annotation/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/annotation/scgpt_annotation/config.vsh.yaml
index 66edf03cb35..81321b482ab 100644
--- a/src/workflows/annotation/scgpt_annotation/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/annotation/scgpt_annotation/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "scgpt_annotation"
 namespace: "workflows/annotation"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Cell type annotation workflow using scGPT. 
   The workflow takes a pre-processed h5mu file as query input, and performs
diff --git a/src/workflows/annotation/scvi_knn/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/annotation/scvi_knn/config.vsh.yaml
index 1aa70c4b612..b37003bf809 100644
--- a/src/workflows/annotation/scvi_knn/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/annotation/scvi_knn/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "scvi_knn"
 namespace: "workflows/annotation"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   "Cell type annotation workflow that performs scVI integration of reference and query dataset followed by KNN label transfer. 
   The query and reference datasets are expected to be pre-processed in the same way, for example with the `process_samples` workflow of OpenPipeline.
diff --git a/src/workflows/gdo/gdo_singlesample/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/gdo/gdo_singlesample/config.vsh.yaml
index 5ced8ffaa78..5681723beed 100644
--- a/src/workflows/gdo/gdo_singlesample/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/gdo/gdo_singlesample/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "gdo_singlesample"
 namespace: "workflows/gdo"
+scope: "public"
 description: "Processing unimodal single-sample guide-derived oligonucleotide (GDO) data."
 info:
   name: "GDO Singlesample"
diff --git a/src/workflows/ingestion/bd_rhapsody/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/ingestion/bd_rhapsody/config.vsh.yaml
index 7492634c1e2..627794bd0f9 100644
--- a/src/workflows/ingestion/bd_rhapsody/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/ingestion/bd_rhapsody/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "bd_rhapsody"
 namespace: "workflows/ingestion"
+scope: "public"
 info:
   name: "BD Rhapsody"
   test_dependencies:
diff --git a/src/workflows/ingestion/cellranger_mapping/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/ingestion/cellranger_mapping/config.vsh.yaml
index 063d208e957..ed7c015ee74 100644
--- a/src/workflows/ingestion/cellranger_mapping/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/ingestion/cellranger_mapping/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "cellranger_mapping"
 namespace: "workflows/ingestion"
+scope: "public"
 description: "A pipeline for running Cell Ranger mapping."
 info:
   name: Cell Ranger mapping
diff --git a/src/workflows/ingestion/cellranger_multi/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/ingestion/cellranger_multi/config.vsh.yaml
index 92c8d92f5d6..0be496509c9 100644
--- a/src/workflows/ingestion/cellranger_multi/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/ingestion/cellranger_multi/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "cellranger_multi"
 namespace: "workflows/ingestion"
+scope: "public"
 description: "A pipeline for running Cell Ranger multi."
 info:
   name: Cell Ranger multi
diff --git a/src/workflows/ingestion/cellranger_postprocessing/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/ingestion/cellranger_postprocessing/config.vsh.yaml
index 2c865dbe7ff..f6f7be866c5 100644
--- a/src/workflows/ingestion/cellranger_postprocessing/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/ingestion/cellranger_postprocessing/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "cellranger_postprocessing"
 namespace: "workflows/ingestion"
+scope: "public"
 description: "Post-processing Cell Ranger datasets."
 info:
   name: Cell Ranger post-processing
diff --git a/src/workflows/ingestion/conversion/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/ingestion/conversion/config.vsh.yaml
index 80a0f664e9b..76e7150d6d6 100644
--- a/src/workflows/ingestion/conversion/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/ingestion/conversion/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "conversion"
 namespace: "workflows/ingestion"
+scope: "public"
 description: "A pipeline to convert different file formats to .h5mu."
 info:
   name: Convert to MuData
diff --git a/src/workflows/ingestion/demux/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/ingestion/demux/config.vsh.yaml
index 088cdde85cf..7a9aa62b2e0 100644
--- a/src/workflows/ingestion/demux/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/ingestion/demux/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: demux
 namespace: workflows/ingestion
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Convert `.bcl` files to `.fastq` files using bcl2fastq, bcl-convert or Cell Ranger mkfastq.
 info:
diff --git a/src/workflows/ingestion/make_reference/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/ingestion/make_reference/config.vsh.yaml
index 460f18fd133..fd923b365a1 100644
--- a/src/workflows/ingestion/make_reference/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/ingestion/make_reference/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: make_reference
 namespace: workflows/ingestion
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   Build a transcriptomics reference into one of many formats.
 info:
diff --git a/src/workflows/integration/bbknn_leiden/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/integration/bbknn_leiden/config.vsh.yaml
index 930eea44dd6..c0625bb3dcd 100644
--- a/src/workflows/integration/bbknn_leiden/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/integration/bbknn_leiden/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "bbknn_leiden"
 namespace: "workflows/integration"
+scope: "public"
 description: "Run bbknn followed by leiden clustering and run umap on the result."
 info:
   test_dependencies:
diff --git a/src/workflows/integration/harmony_leiden/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/integration/harmony_leiden/config.vsh.yaml
index 11e9d3d0d1d..7a6ecb4f06f 100644
--- a/src/workflows/integration/harmony_leiden/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/integration/harmony_leiden/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "harmony_leiden"
 namespace: "workflows/integration"
+scope: "public"
 description: "Run harmony integration followed by neighbour calculations, leiden clustering and run umap on the result."
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/dries_schaumont.yaml
diff --git a/src/workflows/integration/scanorama_leiden/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/integration/scanorama_leiden/config.vsh.yaml
index a17625caa8c..955d0f09a13 100644
--- a/src/workflows/integration/scanorama_leiden/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/integration/scanorama_leiden/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "scanorama_leiden"
 namespace: "workflows/integration"
+scope: "public"
 description: "Run scanorama integration followed by neighbour calculations, leiden clustering and run umap on the result."
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/mauro_saporita.yaml
diff --git a/src/workflows/integration/scgpt_leiden/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/integration/scgpt_leiden/config.vsh.yaml
index b136846bf41..256dca6a887 100644
--- a/src/workflows/integration/scgpt_leiden/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/integration/scgpt_leiden/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "scgpt_leiden"
 namespace: "workflows/integration"
+scope: "public"
 description: "Run scGPT integration (cell embedding generation) followed by neighbour calculations, leiden clustering and run umap on the result."
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/dorien_roosen.yaml
diff --git a/src/workflows/integration/scvi_leiden/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/integration/scvi_leiden/config.vsh.yaml
index 8e3a4a50e86..553bf0f347b 100644
--- a/src/workflows/integration/scvi_leiden/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/integration/scvi_leiden/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "scvi_leiden"
 namespace: "workflows/integration"
+scope: "public"
 description: "Run scvi integration followed by neighbour calculations, leiden clustering and run umap on the result."
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/dries_schaumont.yaml
diff --git a/src/workflows/integration/totalvi_leiden/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/integration/totalvi_leiden/config.vsh.yaml
index 5dc56e8c500..4dd69f2df36 100644
--- a/src/workflows/integration/totalvi_leiden/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/integration/totalvi_leiden/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "totalvi_leiden"
 namespace: "workflows/integration"
+scope: "public"
 description: "Run totalVI integration followed by neighbour calculations, leiden clustering and run umap on the result."
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/dries_schaumont.yaml
diff --git a/src/workflows/multiomics/dimensionality_reduction/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/multiomics/dimensionality_reduction/config.vsh.yaml
index fbe0eb2ea01..b71b164431b 100644
--- a/src/workflows/multiomics/dimensionality_reduction/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/multiomics/dimensionality_reduction/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "dimensionality_reduction"
 namespace: "workflows/multiomics"
+scope: "public"
 description: "Run calculations that output information required for most integration methods: PCA, nearest neighbour and UMAP."
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/dries_schaumont.yaml
diff --git a/src/workflows/multiomics/neighbors_leiden_umap/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/multiomics/neighbors_leiden_umap/config.vsh.yaml
index 4216a22979a..a0debaa058c 100644
--- a/src/workflows/multiomics/neighbors_leiden_umap/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/multiomics/neighbors_leiden_umap/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "neighbors_leiden_umap"
 namespace: "workflows/multiomics"
+scope: "public"
 description: "Performs neighborhood search, leiden clustering and run umap on an integrated embedding."
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/dries_schaumont.yaml
diff --git a/src/workflows/multiomics/process_batches/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/multiomics/process_batches/config.vsh.yaml
index dc6319b90c4..25fc07b34e6 100644
--- a/src/workflows/multiomics/process_batches/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/multiomics/process_batches/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "process_batches"
 namespace: "workflows/multiomics"
+scope: "public"
 description: |
   This workflow serves as an entrypoint into the 'full_pipeline' in order to
   re-run the multisample processing and the integration setup. An input .h5mu file will 
diff --git a/src/workflows/multiomics/process_samples/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/multiomics/process_samples/config.vsh.yaml
index a84cc772a9b..8abbe3ff119 100644
--- a/src/workflows/multiomics/process_samples/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/multiomics/process_samples/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "process_samples"
 namespace: "workflows/multiomics"
+scope: "public"
 description: "A pipeline to analyse multiple multiomics samples."
 info:
   test_dependencies:
diff --git a/src/workflows/multiomics/split_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/multiomics/split_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
index c79ad081ef2..d5b0ef1f986 100644
--- a/src/workflows/multiomics/split_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/multiomics/split_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "split_h5mu"
 namespace: "workflows/multiomics"
+scope: "private"
 description: "Split the samples of a single modality from a .h5mu (multimodal) sample into seperate .h5mu files based on the values of an .obs column of this modality. "
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/dries_schaumont.yaml
diff --git a/src/workflows/multiomics/split_modalities/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/multiomics/split_modalities/config.vsh.yaml
index 331512c26bb..196dacf5a46 100644
--- a/src/workflows/multiomics/split_modalities/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/multiomics/split_modalities/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "split_modalities"
 namespace: "workflows/multiomics"
+scope: "private"
 description: "A pipeline to split a multimodal mudata files into several unimodal mudata files."
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/dries_schaumont.yaml
diff --git a/src/workflows/prot/prot_multisample/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/prot/prot_multisample/config.vsh.yaml
index ebcd8140fdd..3770dfcb65c 100644
--- a/src/workflows/prot/prot_multisample/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/prot/prot_multisample/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "prot_multisample"
 namespace: "workflows/prot"
+scope: "public"
 description: "Processing unimodal multi-sample ADT data."
 info:
   image: /images/concepts/fig_workflow_multiomics_adt_multisample.svg
diff --git a/src/workflows/prot/prot_singlesample/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/prot/prot_singlesample/config.vsh.yaml
index 95051f0b6d7..5b31e9c8093 100644
--- a/src/workflows/prot/prot_singlesample/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/prot/prot_singlesample/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "prot_singlesample"
 namespace: "workflows/prot"
+scope: "public"
 description: "Processing unimodal single-sample CITE-seq data."
 info:
   image: /images/concepts/fig_workflow_multiomics_adt_singlesample.svg
diff --git a/src/workflows/qc/qc/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/qc/qc/config.vsh.yaml
index c0e019b2fa0..4dbe6c1ce46 100644
--- a/src/workflows/qc/qc/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/qc/qc/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "qc"
 namespace: "workflows/qc"
+scope: "public"
 description: "A pipeline to add basic qc statistics to a MuData "
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/dries_schaumont.yaml
diff --git a/src/workflows/rna/rna_multisample/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/rna/rna_multisample/config.vsh.yaml
index b14e15f8020..cc946dc8a94 100644
--- a/src/workflows/rna/rna_multisample/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/rna/rna_multisample/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "rna_multisample"
 namespace: "workflows/rna"
+scope: "public"
 description: "Processing unimodal multi-sample RNA transcriptomics data."
 info:
   image: /images/concepts/fig_workflow_multiomics_rna_multisample.svg
diff --git a/src/workflows/rna/rna_singlesample/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/rna/rna_singlesample/config.vsh.yaml
index 391fb828dc0..6e68e537365 100644
--- a/src/workflows/rna/rna_singlesample/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/rna/rna_singlesample/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "rna_singlesample"
 namespace: "workflows/rna"
+scope: "public"
 description: "Processing unimodal single-sample RNA transcriptomics data."
 info:
   image: /images/concepts/fig_workflow_multiomics_rna_singlesample.svg
diff --git a/src/workflows/test_workflows/annotation/harmony_knn/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/test_workflows/annotation/harmony_knn/config.vsh.yaml
index 119b1701e2e..9f84f9e035e 100644
--- a/src/workflows/test_workflows/annotation/harmony_knn/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/test_workflows/annotation/harmony_knn/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "harmony_knn_test"
 namespace: "test_workflows/annotation"
+scope: "test"
 description: "This component tests the output of the annotation of the harmony_knn of workflow."
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/dorien_roosen.yaml
diff --git a/src/workflows/test_workflows/annotation/scanvi_scarches/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/test_workflows/annotation/scanvi_scarches/config.vsh.yaml
index 5dd5b24999b..915644490cf 100644
--- a/src/workflows/test_workflows/annotation/scanvi_scarches/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/test_workflows/annotation/scanvi_scarches/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "scanvi_scarches_test"
 namespace: "test_workflows/annotation"
+scope: "test"
 description: "This component tests the output of the annotation of the scanvi annotation workflow."
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/dorien_roosen.yaml
diff --git a/src/workflows/test_workflows/annotation/scgpt/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/test_workflows/annotation/scgpt/config.vsh.yaml
index a8711122c90..1e1b911a78c 100644
--- a/src/workflows/test_workflows/annotation/scgpt/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/test_workflows/annotation/scgpt/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "scgpt_annotation_test"
 namespace: "test_workflows/annotation"
+scope: "test"
 description: "This component test the output of the the scgpt_annotation workflow."
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/dorien_roosen.yaml
diff --git a/src/workflows/test_workflows/annotation/scvi_knn/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/test_workflows/annotation/scvi_knn/config.vsh.yaml
index 1f5d8f53693..a34192dfefd 100644
--- a/src/workflows/test_workflows/annotation/scvi_knn/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/test_workflows/annotation/scvi_knn/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "scvi_knn_test"
 namespace: "test_workflows/annotation"
+scope: "test"
 description: "This component tests the output of the annotation of the scvi_knn of workflow."
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/dorien_roosen.yaml
diff --git a/src/workflows/test_workflows/ingestion/bd_rhapsody/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/test_workflows/ingestion/bd_rhapsody/config.vsh.yaml
index 4e711859291..ffe66f9e4b9 100644
--- a/src/workflows/test_workflows/ingestion/bd_rhapsody/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/test_workflows/ingestion/bd_rhapsody/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "bd_rhapsody_test"
 namespace: "test_workflows/ingestion"
+scope: "test"
 description: "This component test the output of the integration test of the bd_rhapsody workflow."
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/jakub_majercik.yaml
diff --git a/src/workflows/test_workflows/ingestion/cellranger_mapping/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/test_workflows/ingestion/cellranger_mapping/config.vsh.yaml
index a140ea5640e..2a64c1ac038 100644
--- a/src/workflows/test_workflows/ingestion/cellranger_mapping/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/test_workflows/ingestion/cellranger_mapping/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "cellranger_mapping_test"
 namespace: "test_workflows/ingestion"
+scope: "test"
 description: "This component test the output of the integration test of the cellranger mapping workflow."
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/jakub_majercik.yaml
diff --git a/src/workflows/test_workflows/ingestion/cellranger_multi/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/test_workflows/ingestion/cellranger_multi/config.vsh.yaml
index 6099f8d230f..17f5d80e6f3 100644
--- a/src/workflows/test_workflows/ingestion/cellranger_multi/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/test_workflows/ingestion/cellranger_multi/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "cellranger_multi_test"
 namespace: "test_workflows/ingestion"
+scope: "test"
 description: "This component test the output of the integration test of the cellranger multi workflow."
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/jakub_majercik.yaml
diff --git a/src/workflows/test_workflows/ingestion/cellranger_postprocessing/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/test_workflows/ingestion/cellranger_postprocessing/config.vsh.yaml
index a3a4b7ab565..5c6299a5a47 100644
--- a/src/workflows/test_workflows/ingestion/cellranger_postprocessing/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/test_workflows/ingestion/cellranger_postprocessing/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "cellranger_postprocessing_test"
 namespace: "test_workflows/ingestion"
+scope: "test"
 description: "This component test the output of the integration test of the cellranger postprocessing workflow."
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/jakub_majercik.yaml
diff --git a/src/workflows/test_workflows/ingestion/conversion/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/test_workflows/ingestion/conversion/config.vsh.yaml
index 7175fd6405a..b22415b7919 100644
--- a/src/workflows/test_workflows/ingestion/conversion/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/test_workflows/ingestion/conversion/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "conversion_test"
 namespace: "test_workflows/ingestion"
+scope: "test"
 description: "This component test the output of the integration test of the conversion workflow."
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/jakub_majercik.yaml
diff --git a/src/workflows/test_workflows/multiomics/dimensionality_reduction/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/test_workflows/multiomics/dimensionality_reduction/config.vsh.yaml
index 806b9a0f10b..b3e294dbdc9 100644
--- a/src/workflows/test_workflows/multiomics/dimensionality_reduction/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/test_workflows/multiomics/dimensionality_reduction/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "dimensionality_reduction_test"
 namespace: "test_workflows/multiomics"
+scope: "test"
 description: "This component test the output of the integration test of dimensionality_reduction."
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/kai_waldrant.yaml
diff --git a/src/workflows/test_workflows/multiomics/process_batches/workflow_test/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/test_workflows/multiomics/process_batches/workflow_test/config.vsh.yaml
index fadb66e5c24..bd38f4b57ed 100644
--- a/src/workflows/test_workflows/multiomics/process_batches/workflow_test/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/test_workflows/multiomics/process_batches/workflow_test/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "workflow_test"
 namespace: "test_workflows/multiomics/process_batches"
+scope: "test"
 description: "This component tests the output of the integration test of process_batches test_wf."
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/kai_waldrant.yaml
diff --git a/src/workflows/test_workflows/multiomics/process_batches/workflow_test2/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/test_workflows/multiomics/process_batches/workflow_test2/config.vsh.yaml
index 2a95593e326..18ecb1f1fb6 100644
--- a/src/workflows/test_workflows/multiomics/process_batches/workflow_test2/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/test_workflows/multiomics/process_batches/workflow_test2/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "workflow_test2"
 namespace: "test_workflows/multiomics/process_batches"
+scope: "test"
 description: "This component tests the output of the integration test of process_batches test_wf2."
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/kai_waldrant.yaml
diff --git a/src/workflows/test_workflows/multiomics/split_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/test_workflows/multiomics/split_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
index 96e932f6ecf..22356fff03a 100644
--- a/src/workflows/test_workflows/multiomics/split_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/test_workflows/multiomics/split_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "split_h5mu_test"
 namespace: "test_workflows/multiomics"
+scope: "test"
 description: "This component test the output of the integration test of split_h5mu."
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/kai_waldrant.yaml
diff --git a/src/workflows/test_workflows/multiomics/split_modalities/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/test_workflows/multiomics/split_modalities/config.vsh.yaml
index 861e343c44e..734398c826f 100644
--- a/src/workflows/test_workflows/multiomics/split_modalities/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/test_workflows/multiomics/split_modalities/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "split_modalities_test"
 namespace: "test_workflows/multiomics"
+scope: "test"
 description: "This component test the output of the integration test of split_modalities."
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/kai_waldrant.yaml
diff --git a/src/workflows/test_workflows/qc/config.vsh.yaml b/src/workflows/test_workflows/qc/config.vsh.yaml
index 08d0e07c80d..09d767f449b 100644
--- a/src/workflows/test_workflows/qc/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/workflows/test_workflows/qc/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 name: "qc_test"
 namespace: "test_workflows/qc"
+scope: "test"
 description: "This component test the output of the integration test of the QC workflow."
 authors:
   - __merge__: /src/authors/jakub_majercik.yaml