> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.getvector.me/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Members and roles

> Invite people into a workspace, give them the right level of access, and manage them afterwards.

At some point you want someone else in the [workspace](/account-and-team/workspaces): a colleague who works alongside you, or an outsider — an investor, an advisor — who should see the work but change nothing. Both go through the **Members** tab in workspace settings, which owners and admins can open.

## Choose the right role

Each person has exactly one role per workspace, and the same person can hold different roles in different workspaces.

| Role       | AI actions | Edit data      | Open settings | Manage members                                        |
| ---------- | ---------- | -------------- | ------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- |
| **Guest**  | No         | No — read-only | No            | No                                                    |
| **Member** | Yes        | Yes            | No            | No                                                    |
| **Admin**  | Yes        | Yes            | Yes           | Yes, except the owner                                 |
| **Owner**  | Yes        | Yes            | Yes           | Yes, plus transfer ownership and delete the workspace |

A workspace always has exactly one owner, and never zero: the last owner can't be removed or demoted, and an owner can't leave until they've handed ownership to someone else.

Members and guests don't see a settings entry point at all, and can't reach settings by typing the URL.

## Invite someone by email

On the **Members** tab, enter the person's email address and pick their role — guest, member or admin. They get an email with a link. When they open it and sign in (or register), they join with the role you chose. There's no approval step afterwards.

Two things to keep in mind:

* **The invitation is tied to that email address.** If the person signs in with a different address, the invitation is refused and tells them so. They need to accept with the address you invited.
* **Email invitations expire after 24 hours.** After that, the link is refused as expired and you need to send a new one.

Pending invitations are listed on the Members tab, and you can revoke any of them before they're accepted.

If someone is already a member, inviting them again doesn't create a second membership; Vector reports that they're already in the workspace.

## Share an invite link

For less formal sharing, generate an invite link instead. You choose the role and how long the link lives:

* Role: guest or member only. Links can't grant admin.
* Expiration: 1, 3, 7 or 30 days, or never.

You can have several links active at once, each with its own role and expiration, and all of them are listed on the Members tab. Copy a link, send it to whoever needs it, and anyone who opens it and signs in joins with that link's role.

Revoke or regenerate a link at any point and the old one stops working. If someone opens a link that has expired or been revoked, they're told which of the two it is rather than getting a generic error.

<Note>
  Ownership is never granted by an invitation, by email or by link. The only way to become owner is for the current owner to transfer it.
</Note>

## Give someone read-only access

Invite them as a **Guest**. A guest sees a permanent banner saying their access is read-only. Everything that would change something is refused: creating, editing and deleting are blocked, and this is enforced on the server, not just hidden in the interface.

AI actions are blocked too — the request is stopped before any [AI provider](/getting-started/connect-a-provider) is called, so a guest can never spend your AI budget. Instead of a confusing failure, the guest gets a clear read-only notice.

Reading and navigating are unaffected: a guest can look around the whole workspace.

## Change a role or remove someone

Owners and admins can change someone's role or remove them from the workspace, on the **Members** tab. Admins can't change or remove the owner.

An admin can leave a workspace with **Leave** on the same tab. After leaving, you're switched to another workspace you belong to; if there's none, Vector creates a new one for you.

## Hand over ownership

Only the owner can transfer ownership, and only to someone already in the workspace: click **Make owner** on their row. They become the owner, and you become an admin.

There's no limit on how many people a workspace can have.

## Where to go next

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    What a workspace holds and how they stay separate.
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