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Roles in the web app

The permissions of each role in the web app, who can change roles and invite people, and how the service enforces them whatever the page shows.

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The page hides every control your role cannot use. That is a convenience, not the protection: the service checks the role on every request, so a request made another way is refused with 403 forbidden and recorded in the audit log as denied. The full role model is in Teams and roles.

assert.deepEqual([...ROLE_ACTIONS.viewer], ["read"]);
assert.ok(ROLE_ACTIONS.member.includes("manage_tokens"));
assert.ok(!ROLE_ACTIONS.member.includes("manage_members"));
assert.ok(ROLE_ACTIONS.admin.includes("manage_members"));
assert.ok(!ROLE_ACTIONS.admin.includes("manage_team"));
assert.ok(ROLE_ACTIONS.owner.includes("manage_team"));

Permissions by role

In the app Viewer Member Admin Owner
Read every view yes yes yes yes
Create and edit issues, memory and projects no yes yes yes
Dismiss a review finding, re-run CI no yes yes yes
Approve a deploy, roll one back, change policy no no yes yes
Create and revoke agent tokens no yes yes yes
Change roles, remove members, invite people no no yes yes
Read, verify and export the audit log no no yes yes
Manage the team itself no no no yes

Members and invitations

In Settings > Members everyone can read the list. Owners and admins can change a role, remove a member and send or revoke invitations. Nobody can give out more authority than they hold: only an owner can make someone an owner, and a team always keeps at least one owner.

Removing a member takes effect at once. Their sessions stop working and the agent tokens they created are revoked.

An invitation is bound to one email address and works once. If no email could be sent, the page shows the invitation link a single time.

Agent tokens

Settings > Agent access lists the tokens agents hold and lets you revoke one. Nobody creates a token there: agents sign in from the CLI, with overlane auth login when a person can approve a code, or on their own for a repository connected through the Overlane GitHub App. Read more in Agent sign-in.

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