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Bolt lets you invite collaborators to your project at any stage, whether you’re still building, ready for review, or preparing to make your site public. You can control who has access and what they can do.

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Invite collaborators to your project or site

You can invite collaborators using the Share or Publish button in the upper-right corner of your Bolt project. Which button you use depends on whether you’re sharing your project or your published site. These are two different things in Bolt:
  • Project: The workspace where you build with Bolt. This is where your files, code, and development environment live. When you chat with Bolt, it automatically updates your project and displays the most recent version in the preview window.
  • Site: The hosted version of your project that people can visit on the web. Your project becomes a site when you publish it to a live web address. However, publishing doesn’t necessarily mean your site if fully public. You can publish your site as private to restrict access only to collaborators you invite. After publishing, updates you make in your project don’t automatically appear on your site. You have to update your site from the Publish menu any time you want to make changes live.
Sharing lets you manage who can access your project. Publishing lets you manage who can access your site. In both cases, you can invite users and control the level of access they have.
OptionWho can accessVisibilityBest use
SharingInvited viewers onlyNot indexed or publicPrivate reviews and testing
PublishingDepends on visibility settingPublic sites are discoverable by search engines; private sites are notPublic launch or controlled access
Project visibility also affects who can actively collaborate on your project. To learn more about project visibility settings, see Change the project’s visibility for individual accounts or Set project visibility for Teams accounts.

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Collaborate in real time

When your project visibility is set to public, collaborators can work together in multiplayer mode. This lets you prompt and edit in the same project at the same time. Every project has a single shared chat thread. To prevent conflicting edits, Bolt processes one prompt at a time. Other collaborators can’t submit prompts while Bolt is processing an update, but you can see when someone else is typing, so you know when to wait.

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Share integrations

Shared projects give collaborators access to the project’s data, but control over certain integrations stays with the project owner. If your project has a database, collaborators can view the same data and make changes to the structure. Any collaborator can bring designs into Bolt using Figma or Google Stitch. If you’re on a paid team plan, your team members can add and use design systems. The GitHub integration works differently. Only the project owner can connect and manage it, so if you’re a collaborator, the GitHub button isn’t available to you. When you make changes to the project, Bolt doesn’t automatically push them to the repository. Instead, your changes sync to GitHub the next time the project owner makes an update. This ensures the owner always has a chance to review changes before they sync. Similarly, only the project owner can connect MCP servers and prompt Bolt to use those connectors.