# Collaborators

A site has one owner and any number of collaborators.

One rule sorts what each may do: **a collaborator acts on a site, an owner
acts on the account.**

So a collaborator publishes, writes source, reads enquiries and answers
comments. A collaborator does not change the plan, mint a token on the
owner's account, or onboard a domain.

## The plan is the owner's

All load counts against the owner's plan. The owner pays for the site, so
a site's caps come from the site's owner and never from the caller.

## Invitations

The site's owner invites a person by address. Clave mails them a link.

The invited person accepts in one of two ways:

- **in a browser**, on the page the link opens;
- **through their own agent**, with `POST /v1/invitations/{id}/accept`.

The second is allowed because the party who gains access is the party who
asks. An agent may accept for **its own account and no other**.

`GET /v1/invitations` is how an agent-driven account learns an offer
exists at all.

Two rules follow from that:

- **The link is not an input.** An agent takes the invitation **id** and
  leans on its own token.
- **An id is not a credential.** An invitation addressed to somebody else
  answers exactly as one that does not exist.

## Withdrawing one

An invitation is withdrawn by deleting it. That matters: an offer that
expired unaccepted still holds the one open slot for that address, so
without a withdrawal there is no way to invite that person again.

A withdrawal that races an acceptance loses. The acceptance already wrote
the collaborator row, and a delete that won would erase the record of a
real access.

An invitation that was accepted is not a missing one. Clave says so, and
points at removing the collaborator instead.

## Tokens

An owner cannot see or revoke a collaborator's tokens. Removing the
collaboration is what ends the access.

Read [Collaborators](/api/collaborators).

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