Members and roles

Sourcebot provides different role types to help you control access and permissions across your organization.

Role	Permission
Owner	Owners have full administrative control over all organization-level settings, including user management, access control, billing, and audit logs, in addition to all permissions a member can perform.
Member	Members have access and to use all standard features, such as code search, ask, mcp, etc., as well as their account settings. Members cannot access organization-level administration pages.
Guest	Guests are users that access Sourcebot without a account when anonymous access is enabled. Guests can use some features, such as code search and browsing files, with additional limitations like not having chat history. Guests cannot access organization-level administration pages.

Note that when permission syncing is enabled, users will only be able to view repositories they have access to. This applies to all roles, including Owners.

On the free plan, all signed-in users are given the Owner role.

Default role assignment

When a user joins your organization, they are assigned a default role. This assignment, and the ability to manage the user’s role afterwards, depends on your plan:

Plan	Default role	Role management
Free	Owner	Not available. A user’s role cannot be changed.
Paid	Member	Available. Owners can promote or demote members.

Managing member roles

only available in a paid plan. Please activate a license key to use this feature.

Owners can change the role of any user in the organization from Settings → Members. This lets you control who has administrative access by promoting trusted members to Owner, and scoping access back down to Member when administrative responsibilities change.

Promoting a member to owner

To promote a member, click the action menu (three dots) next to their name in the members list and select Promote to owner. The member will immediately gain full administrative access.

Demoting an owner to member

To demote an owner, click the action menu next to their name and select Demote to member. Owners can also demote themselves to step down from the role. The last remaining owner of an organization cannot be demoted - at least one owner must exist at all times.

Leaving an organization as an owner

An owner can leave the organization as long as at least one other owner exists. If you are the last owner, you must promote another member to owner before leaving.