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Agent playbook — written for the agent connected to your account; you can read along

Every signed-in person has a personal (signup) organization. You can also create team organizations. Resources (packages, secrets, jobs, and so on) belong to one org. Handles are permanent: @slug does not rename.

The org is the billing and data boundary: its resources, usage, limits, and bill stay inside it. Inside an org, grants control access. Owners hold everything, Members hold the org basics (org:read, member:read, team:read, search:read), what member permissions allow, and what they are granted. An outside collaborator holds catalog search (search:read) plus their grants. See Share a package for presets and grants.

Member permissions

Like a code host's "members can create repositories" setting, an Owner chooses what every Member of a team org can create without a grant: Organization settings, Member permissions, or orgUpdate.

SettingDefaultGives every Member
Members can create packages and appsOffpackage:create: save, fork, and first-publish packages, repos, and their apps
Members can create credentialsOnsecret:create, integration:create: new secrets, OAuth connections, MCP servers
{ "members_can_create_packages": true, "members_can_create_credentials": true }

Owners can always create. Whoever creates something gets full (manage) access to it. Changing an existing package or credential still needs its own write permission, so these settings never let a Member edit what someone else made. The settings are enforced on the server for every path (MCP, the API, the CLI's first publish and repo push, and the website). A Member who is refused gets an error naming the setting and the Grants page.

To let only some people or teams create, leave a setting off and use Grants, Create access (or accessGrant with resource_type: "org" and permissions: ["package:create"], ["secret:create"], or ["integration:create"]). Those grants still apply when a setting is off.

Owners can also turn off usage warnings (the 80% and 100% usage emails and the monthly execute heads-up) with orgUpdate { "usage_warnings": false } or Organization settings, Usage warnings.

Org-wide read access

To let a Member read everything of one kind without making them an Owner, an Owner grants read access on the organization: Grants page, Organization-wide read access, or accessGrant with resource_type: "org":

{
	"resource_type": "org",
	"resource_id": "<org id>",
	"subject_type": "user",
	"username": "casey",
	"permissions": ["job:read"]
}

From the CLI: kody api accessGrant --org <slug> --params '<that JSON>'. Add "expires_at": "<ISO time>" for temporary access: the grant stops counting at that time. A new grant without expires_at never expires. Rewriting a grant without expires_at keeps a future expiry but drops one that has already passed; pass null to make it unlimited. accessList still shows an expired grant, with its past expires_at, until you rewrite or revoke it.

PermissionReads
job:readEvery job, workflow, and run (runList, runGet, the Activity page, Overview run history)
app:readEvery package app and its sessions
package:readSource, skills, and checks for every package and repo
integration:readWhich integrations and MCP servers exist, never a token
email:readEvery inbox and message, including sign-in codes they get

These are read only. Running, editing, triaging runs, sharing, and using a credential still need their own grant. Secret values and memories are never grantable org-wide.

Org-wide manage for packages and apps

To let a member or team run, change, publish, delete, and share every package and app in the organization, including ones created later, an Owner grants manage on the organization: Grants page, Manage every package and app, or accessGrant with resource_type: "org":

{
	"resource_type": "org",
	"resource_id": "<org id>",
	"subject_type": "team",
	"team_slug": "platform",
	"permissions": [
		"package:read",
		"package:execute",
		"package:write",
		"package:publish",
		"package:delete",
		"package:manage_access",
		"app:read",
		"app:execute",
		"app:manage_access"
	]
}

Any subset works, for example only package:execute and app:execute to run everything. The grant resolves live, so a package created tomorrow is covered at once and revoking the grant removes access everywhere.

  • Owner only. A member with member:write can manage read and create access but cannot add these, the same as org:write.
  • Members and teams only. Everyone in the organization (subject_type: "org") and agent profiles cannot hold them org-wide; share one package with everyone instead.
  • Unmappable credentials still lock changes. On a package whose credentials cannot be mapped in this organization, package:write and package:publish stay owner-only even with this grant. Running it still works. An Owner unlocks changes per package with a grant on that package that sets allow_changes_despite_unmappable_credentials: true. See Package sharing.
  • Secrets, connections, jobs, and email are not covered. Grant those per resource.

Access for one person

In a team org, an Owner opens Members, Collaborators, or a person-linked row on Grants, then Access (/@<slug>/-/grants/user/<userId>). That page lists what one person can use in the org and Give access grants or revokes a preset on specific packages, apps, and credentials. Team and everyone grants show as read-only. Owners already hold everything. Use the package Collaborators tab to share one package; use Access for one person across resource types. Details: Share a package.

Delete a team

teamDelete (DELETE /v1/orgs/teams/{team_id}, or pass team_slug) needs team:write, the same as creating a team. It is a soft delete and lands in the org audit log as team.deleted. Members stay in the organization but lose every grant they held through the team right away; Kody ends their open execution-context leases. The grant rows stay for history and never apply to another team. The slug is free again: a new team with the same slug starts with no grants.

Personal vs team

PersonalTeam
CreatedAt signup (slug = username)orgCreate or Create organization
Members / teamsNo. Create a team org to invite people or group themYes
Package grantsaccessGrant / grant invites / package invite linksSame, plus the Grants page and per-person Access (/@<slug>/-/grants/user/<userId>)
Resource web pagesSecrets, jobs, repositories, apps, agents, and the restEvery resource page reads the org. Agents lists connections approved for that org; Repositories lists packages you can see plus every plain repo the org owns (API/CLI still say package); Apps (/@<slug>/-/apps) lists packages with kody.app.entry

Switch orgs from the workspace name at the top of the workspace rail (it keeps the section you are on), from the avatar menu's Manage group, or pick the org at MCP consent. Overview is /@<slug>/-/overview. One connection binds one org.

/@me always means the signed-in person's own (personal) account. Any path under it redirects to the same path on your handle, so kody.codes/@me/-/profiles opens /@<your-username>/-/profiles. The rest of the path and the query string are kept. Signed-out visitors sign in first and then land on the resolved page. me is reserved, so no person or org can claim that handle.

Handy settings links: /@me/-/settings, /@me/-/secrets, /@me/-/agents, /@me/-/apps, /@me/-/email, /@me/-/jobs, /@me/-/activity, and /@me/-/waiting.

Agents: when a doc shows /@<slug>/-/... for the person's personal account and you don't know their username, link https://kody.codes/@me/-/... instead. Use the real slug for team orgs: /@me never points at a team org.

Public org page

A team org's page at kody.codes/@<slug> is Public by default: anyone can see its name, photo, bio, and public packages. Members are never listed, and private or hidden packages never show. Pick Private when you create the org, or later in Settings (Owners only), or pass profile_visibility (public | private) to orgCreate / orgUpdate. A private org's page is a not-found page for everyone outside it, the same as a handle that doesn't exist. Members of a public org see the public page with an Organization home link (/@<slug>?view=home); on a private org the home is at /@<slug>. A personal org's page is your account profile, set on Account.

Invites

An invite waits on the person it is for and shows on the page that sent it:

  • Waiting on you. Every pending invite you can answer is a card on your Waiting page (/@<org>/-/waiting) and a row in the Invites panel on your Organizations page (/account/organizations), each with Accept and Decline. That covers invites addressed to your email or username and invite links you opened. An invite sent to your email needs a verified email before you can answer it on the web. Declining ends the invite (recorded as invite.declined).
  • Sent by you. The page you sent it from lists it until it is answered or lapses: Members shows invites addressed to people as Pending, with Revoke on membership invites, plus active Members links; Teams lists each team's links; a package's Collaborators tab lists its links. Every link has Revoke.

Agents use inviteAccept with the token and inviteRevoke for addressed invites.

How do I invite my whole team?

Use a Members invite link when you do not know every email yet, or when many people should join with the same role. Prefer addressed inviteCreate only when you need to invite one known person (and optionally Owner).

  1. On the web: open /@<org>/-/members, create an invite link (Member by default; optional label, default teams, domains, max uses, expiry), copy the credential once, and share it.
  2. As an agent: call inviteLinkCreate (needs member:write) in that org, then share the returned URL or tell people to call inviteLinkAccept with the token. List with inviteLinkList. End a link with inviteLinkRevoke.
  3. CLI/Open API: POST /v1/access/invite-links, GET /v1/access/invite-links, POST /v1/access/invite-links/accept, and POST /v1/access/invite-links/{invite_link_id}/revoke.

An invite link lets someone in without knowing their email or username. You make one where you would otherwise add the person, and what it gives depends on where you made it:

Made onAccepting itWho can make it
Members (team org)Joins the org as Member or Billing; optional default teamsmember:write
Teams, one team (team org)Joins that team, and the org as Member if they are not in it yetteam:write and member:write
A package's Collaborators tabGrants the chosen preset on that package; non-members stay outside collaborators (any org)Manage on the package

Opening a link signs the person in or lets them create an account (every signup method asks them to choose their own username first), then shows an accept page with what the link gives and who sent it. Nothing happens until they choose Accept; they can also Decline. A signed-in person who opened a link sees it on their Waiting page and in the Invites panel on their Organizations page until they accept or decline it, or it stops working. OAuth keeps the join URL through redirects via redirectTo.

Links last 7 days by default (up to 365; every link expires) and can be limited by number of uses. Members links can also carry an optional label, default teams, and a verified email domain allowlist. The link is a credential: Kody stores only a hash, so the full URL is shown once. Each page lists its active links with uses and expiry; the Members page also shows last used. Revoke ends one right away. A link also stops working when its org is no longer active, when the team or package it points at is deleted, or when the person who made it loses access. Someone removed from the org can rejoin with the same membership link while it is live (idempotent for people who are already members). Team and package links are spent per person, so removing someone is not undone by the link they already used.

Agents use inviteLinkCreate, inviteLinkList, inviteLinkRevoke, and inviteLinkAccept (same surfaces as Open API and the CLI). Creating, revoking, and accepting are recorded in the org audit log as invite_link.created, invite_link.revoked, and invite_link.joined, with the link's kind, team or package, label, teams, and preset in the details.

Automation runs as the person who turned it on

A scheduled job, subscription, or webhook runs only after a person turns it on for themselves, by approving it on the package's approval page (or, for a job or subscription, with enablementEnable). Turning a cron enablement on also turns that job's enabled flag on and schedules the next tick when the enabler holds job:write. Without job:write the enablement still turns on but leaves the job unchanged: a job that was off stays off, and the enablement result's job field says so (state: "left_off", missing_permission: "job:write"); a job that was already on stays on (state: "already_on"). Minting a webhook URL does not turn it on: the mint returns the approval link, and deliveries fail with that link until someone approves. A webhook URL runs as one enabler. That person is the enabler, and every run acts as them:

  • The run has the enabler's live access in the org, checked on every run. It can do only what the enabler could do by hand at that moment, never more.
  • Credentials resolve only when the enabler holds Use on them.
  • If the enabler loses access (leaves the org, loses package:execute, or loses Use on a credential the run needs), the enablement pauses and its events are dropped. It resumes by itself once access is back. A run never falls back to another person or to Owner.
  • A paused enablement shows on its enabler's own Waiting page for that org, with what the run needed. Other members and Owners do not get that card.
  • Usage counts against the org that owns the trigger, and the run is audited to the enabler.

Some actions need a live person, even when the enabler is an Owner. No job, webhook, subscription, or inbound email handler can do them, and neither can package code one of those started or a package app's server code:

  • Role and membership changes: adding or removing members, changing a role, invites, and grants that carry member or billing permissions.
  • Billing changes: plan, seats, payment, wallet, budgets, and promo codes.

Do these from the web app, an MCP or CLI call you make yourself, or an execute you run. A triggered run that tries one fails with Capability "<name>" needs a live person, naming the capability it tried. Everything else runs unattended with the enabler's live permissions.

Site-admin tools run unattended too when the person the run acts for is a site admin: a job, webhook, subscription, inbound email handler, or jobRunNow in that person's personal org or any team org they enabled (or clicked run-now in) may call them, and every such call is audited with its trigger type and id.

Publishing a package never turns anything on, and nobody can enable a trigger for someone else. enablementList shows your enablements (an Owner can list the whole org's). enablementDisable turns one off; its enabler or an Owner may do that.

Every time a job or an enablement turns on or off, the org audit log records who did it (a person, an automation run, or a site admin), when, the old and new state, where it came from (web app, MCP, API, CLI, the scheduler, and so on), and the reason when one was given (jobUpdate and enablementDisable take an optional reason). Owners see the last 7 days under On/off changes on the Activity page. A job that reaches its own expiry time turns off without a row, and pause and resume are a separate state with their own reason.

Example: Bea is a Member of @acme with Use on @acme/digest. She turns on its nightly job. Each night it runs as Bea, with Bea's grants. It cannot read a secret Bea has no Use on, and it cannot change roles even if Bea becomes an Owner. If an Owner removes Bea from @acme, the job pauses until someone else turns it on for themselves.

Execute limits: one org-wide pool

Hosted execute limits (unique execute workers per day and per week) are one pool per org, not per person:

  • Free: one pool for the whole org (see the table below).
  • Pro: the pool is the per-seat include times paid seats, so it grows with every Owner and Member. Funded credits carry it further, up to a ceiling that also scales with seats.
  • The runaway brake (execute calls started per minute) is also per org: 300 for each Owner and Member, at least 300, on every plan.

A connection draws from the pool of the org it is bound to:

  • A Member connected to @acme draws from acme's pool and is one of acme's seats.
  • A grant-only collaborator connected to the owning org draws from that org's pool too, but is not a seat and does not grow the pool.
  • Work in a person's personal org draws from that personal org's own pool.

Example: Jesse holds Use on @acme/bot and is not a member. Connected as @acme, his runs count against acme's execute pool, credits, and budgets. Nothing is charged to Jesse's personal plan, and acme's seat count does not change.

Visits to an internal package app are billed differently: a visitor from outside the org pays for the metered work their visits cause from their own personal org, and the owning org keeps paying the app's Worker compute. Internet-visible apps are always paid by the owning org. See Package apps: who pays for visits.

Connect one client to two orgs

A connection binds exactly one org at consent (ADR 0064). To use two orgs from the same client, add Kody twice, once per org, with ?org=<slug> on the MCP URL:

https://kody.codes/mcp?org=ada
https://kody.codes/mcp?org=ada-work

Each entry runs its own consent with that org selected, gets its own grant, and acts only in that org. The slug must be an org you can access, and a slug that disagrees with the one picked at consent is refused. Without ?org=, consent picks your only org or asks you to choose. For the CLI, use kody login --org <slug>.

Free team org limits

A new team org starts on the same Free plan as a personal org (/pricing). There is no separate free-team SKU.

LimitFree
Free orgs you own (personal counts)2, so one free team org beside personal
SeatsNo seat charge on Free. Paid Pro seats are Owners + Members only ($12/seat/mo or $120/yr)
Saved packages10
Repos20
Scheduled jobs5 (fastest interval 15 minutes)
Execute (unique workers) / day · week150 · 400
Outbound fetches / day · week1,000 · 2,500
Job runs / day500
Automation invocations / day1,000
Secrets25
Storage16 MiB
Concurrent workflows1
Active repo sessions5

Credits: Free has no prepaid debit wallet. New accounts get a $5 welcome grant held until the account is credit-eligible Pro (purchasable Pro subscription, or admin credit eligibility on an effective Pro plan; not every paid price is eligible). Until then the balance is held and not spent.

Example: Ada owns @ada (personal, Free) and creates @ada-work (team, Free). That uses both free-org slots. A third free org she tries to own is refused until one is paid or deleted.

When an org is Pro, each live Owner and Member is a seat, and each seat grows the org's execute pool. Billing-only members and outside collaborators are not seats. See Share a package for grants vs membership.

Move a Pro plan

An Owner of two orgs can move unused prepaid Pro value from one org to another they own: Usage and billing → Move this plan to another organization (/@<slug>/-/billing/move-plan). Packages, credentials, members, and wallets stay put. The source org drops to Free limits. Only a live Owner of both orgs can start, retry, or cancel the move. Billing admins cannot. A Free target buys Pro at Stripe Checkout first; a target that already has Pro only receives the credit. Retired prices, canceling subscriptions, and mismatched currencies are refused.

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