Collaborate

Collaborate is for someone who wants full read and write access — importing, editing metadata, curating together. Every change syncs to all members.

How it works

1. The joiner shares their public key with the owner
2. The owner sends back an invite code
3. The joiner pastes the invite code and syncs

The invite code wraps the library’s encryption key to the joiner’s public key, grants storage access, and creates a membership entry.

Roles

• Owner — can invite and revoke members, and make all edits
• Member — can make all edits, but cannot manage membership

Revocation

An owner can revoke any member. When a member is revoked, a new encryption key is generated and re-wrapped to all remaining members. The revoked member can no longer decrypt new data.

The last owner of a library cannot be revoked.

Attribution

Every change carries the author’s public key. bae maps public keys to display names locally, so you can see who imported a release or edited metadata.

See Sharing (Architecture) for technical details on the membership chain, signed changesets, and identity model.