Invite flow
An invitation offers someone the use of the compute you share. It does not give them access to your hardware, and they do not need to set up a machine of their own to accept it.
Inviting someone to use your machine
On Sharing, choose Invite someone, then pick who it is for:
- One person: Saylek sends the invitation to their email address, and it works once.
- A lab, team or class: Saylek gives you one link to pass on, with a limit you set on how many people can accept it. Each person who accepts can use the compute you share. Accepting the same link does not give them access to each other's machines.
Every invitation needs a Name or note. Only you see it, so you can tell your invitations apart. It is not their name: whoever accepts brings their own.
Anyone holding the invitation link can choose to accept it after signing in, so send it only to people you mean to share with. Copy the link Saylek gives you rather than writing an address by hand.
From the terminal
Send by email:
saylek sharing invite --note "Rana, from the workshop" --email them@example.com
Or create a link to pass on:
saylek sharing invite --note "Lab, autumn term" --link --uses 5
--note is required either way. --email sends the invitation to that address, and
--link prints a link for you to pass on. --uses works only with --link and sets how
many people it admits, from 1 to 100; leave it off for a link that admits one person.
Accepting an invite
The person you invite opens the invitation and reviews what you are offering. If they are not signed in, they create an account or sign in first. Signing in does not accept the invitation: it brings them back to the offer, and they choose to accept it.
Accepting lets them use the compute you share. It does not turn on sharing from any machine of theirs. Offering you theirs would be a separate choice they make themselves.
A saylek.com/i/ address is something else. It sets up your own machine, and it is not a
way to invite anyone.
Leaving
To stop someone using what you share, see Ending someone's access. To stop using what someone shared with you, see Giving up access you were given.
Next steps
- Sharing and access: seeing who has access, and removal.
- Concepts: how access works between two people.
- Privacy and egress: what the person serving you can see.
Last checked 2026-09-24 · read as markdown at /docs/invite-flow.md