Sharing a project
Invite co-authors, choose what each of them can do, and work in the same file at the same time.
Sharing needs cloud sync on the project. Once it is on, invite people and their role decides what they can change.
Inviting
Open Share on the project. Invite by email, or search for someone who already has a Kosmico account. Choose their role as you invite them. An invitation is a link with an expiry, and you can resend or cancel one that is still pending.
Link sharing works the way Overleaf's does: generate a link, choose whether it grants viewing or collaborating, and anyone with it can join. Revoke the link and it stops working, which the confirmation warns you about if people joined through it.
Roles
| Role | Can do |
|---|---|
| Owner | Everything, plus managing collaborators and links |
| Editor | Read and edit files, rename, move, and delete files and folders |
| Viewer | Read only |
Two things stay with the owner regardless of role. Only the owner manages share links, and on the desktop app only the owner's machine mirrors the project to the local filesystem in the background.
Editing together
Several people can be in the same file at once. You see who else is there, where their cursor is, and what they are typing. Click a collaborator to jump to their position, or follow their cursor as they move.
Work done offline merges when you reconnect. When two versions genuinely conflict, Kosmico shows you both with the line and character counts and asks which to keep rather than picking for you.
Reviewing
Comment threads work on files the way they do in a Word document: reply, resolve, @mention a collaborator, and attach a suggested edit the author accepts or rejects. Version history is per file, so you can see what changed and restore an earlier state without losing the current one.
Sharing a Kosmo agent
You can also share the assistant, not just the files. A shared agent is readable and usable by everyone on the project, one person at a time. See Kosmo agents for what changes when an agent is shared, and why collaborators' turns run in the cloud.