OWSM Server Agent custom steps

Can someone please lead me to a document and/or provide instructions that detail how to configure a custom step (like the one in C:\product\10.1.3.1\OracleAS_1\owsm\samples\customsteps) into an existing server agent policy as one of the pipeline steps. It's not obvious which option it is in the "Step Template" drop-down menu; unless I'm missing something; I'm also thinking the custom step (code/package) itself is a template and needs to be configured so that it appears in the pipeline "Step Template" drop-down.
Thanks in advance!

Found it.
http://www.oracle.com/technology/obe/fusion_middleware/owsm/custom%20steps/custom%20steps.htm

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