Groups

You don't have to think about groups much day to day, but they quietly decide two things: who's in a conversation and what knowledge is allowed in it.

The plain-terms version

• A group is the single unit of both membership and clearance.
• Every user also has an implicit personal group — their own private scope.
• A Brain (or an integration) is usable in a chat only when every group present in the chat holds read access to it. This is called clearance intersection.
• On top of that, you only ever see what you personally are cleared to read.

The effect: put a sensitive Brain in front of a chat that includes a group without clearance, and it simply won't be usable there. Access fails safe.

What you'll notice

• Chats show which groups are present.
• The Brains panel shows only the Brains usable given the current chat's clearance — not everything that exists.
• Adding a group to a chat can narrow what's usable (because the intersection now has to satisfy that group too).

Who manages groups

Creating groups, adding members, and granting a group read/write/admin on a Brain or integration are admin tasks. See Groups & roles in the Admin's Guide for the full model, including dynamic roles and the anti-escalation rule that stops anyone granting more power than they hold.