Use this page to share a chat with a colleague, open the chats that were shared with you, and start your own copy of a shared chat. A share is read-only and time-limited, and it opens that one chat only: it never gives access to the Mind or to your other chats.
The chat appears for them under Shared with me in their chat list, with its title, its Mind, who shared it and the end date. It stays there until the share is revoked or its end date passes, and the rest of their chat list works as usual (see Chat commands, shortcuts and privacy).
The person can read that one chat, but cannot send, edit or continue messages in it; writing is refused with "This conversation was shared with you read-only. You cannot send messages in it."
They also cannot pass the share on: sharing a chat that was shared with you is refused with "A conversation shared with you cannot be shared onward." They can start their own copy instead.
A share covers one chat only: the Mind, its tabs and your other chats stay closed to the person.
To stop sharing, revoke the person's share. They lose access at once, and the chat leaves their Shared with me list.
A share also ends on its end date. Access is checked whenever the chat is opened, so an expired share stops working by itself as soon as the end date passes; no cleanup step has to run first. To give the person access again, share the chat again.
On a chat that was shared with you, use Start new chat from this to make your own copy. The copy lands in your own chat list, on the same Mind, and you can keep chatting in it as usual.
If the original chat used uploaded spreadsheets, the copy cannot run new queries on them. The copy explains why: "This chat was copied from a shared chat. Spreadsheets from the original chat are not loaded here, so I can't run new queries on them. To ask new questions about a spreadsheet, upload it again."
The action appears only on a chat that was shared with you, on a Mind where you can start chats. The chat's owner and users who can read it through a role never get the action. Copying a chat that was not shared with you is refused with "Only a chat that was shared with you can be copied." On a Mind where you cannot start chats, the copy is refused with "You cannot start chats on this mind."
Yes. Each share goes to one person; share the same chat again for each additional person.
Up to 90 days, and always a future date. You can change an existing share's end date by sharing the same chat with the same person again.
No. A share is read-only. If they try to write, they are refused with "This conversation was shared with you read-only. You cannot send messages in it."
No. A chat shared with you cannot be shared onward, even with the Share Chat permission: "A conversation shared with you cannot be shared onward."
Yes. Revoke the person's share. They lose access at once, and the chat leaves their Shared with me list.
The person loses access. The end date is checked whenever the chat is opened, so the share stops working by itself once that date passes, and the chat leaves their Shared with me list. Share the chat again to give access back.
Answered turns, with their attachments copied as new files. An unfinished turn is left out, and a private chat is copied as a private chat. The copy becomes a chat of your own.
It appears only on chats that were shared with you, on a Mind where you can start chats, and it is for the guest only: the chat's owner and users who read it through a role never get it. On other chats, copying is refused with "Only a chat that was shared with you can be copied."
The copy cannot run new queries on spreadsheets that were uploaded in the original chat. The copy includes this note: "This chat was copied from a shared chat. Spreadsheets from the original chat are not loaded here, so I can't run new queries on them. To ask new questions about a spreadsheet, upload it again." Upload the file again to ask new questions; see Attach files and Excel data to a chat.
No. Sharing a sub-chat is refused with "Sub-conversations cannot be shared directly.", and copying is refused with "Only the main chat can be copied, not a sub-chat."