Share a conversation
Share a Dropstone chat as a read-only copy with a public link, or invite people into the live chat as editors or viewers. What a link shows, how to refresh or stop it, and how sharing differs from inviting.
There are two ways to let someone see a chat, and they are for different things.
| Public link | Invite people | |
|---|---|---|
| Who can open it | Anyone with the link, no sign-in | Named people who sign in |
| What they get | A frozen, read-only copy | The live chat, as it happens |
| Can they take part | No | As an editor, yes; as a viewer, they can read and talk to people |
| Where to set it up | Share then Create public link | Share then Invite people to this chat |
This article covers the public link. Inviting people is in Invite people to a chat.
Share with a public link
- Open the chat and click Share.
- Choose Create public link. Two switches sit with it: Hide sensitive information redacts phone numbers and email addresses and drops any call audio; Include call recording, for a chat with a call in it, shares the audio as well as the call card and summary.
- Click Copy link and send it.
Anyone with the link can open the chat without signing in. They see the messages, Dropstone's replies, and any artifacts and trackers, as they stood when the link was made. It is read-only.
The link is readable by anyone who has it, but it is not discoverable: shared chats are kept out of search engines. A pasted link shows a real preview with the chat's title and first message, and adding .md to the end of the link returns the transcript as plain text.
Update or stop a shared link
The link is a snapshot. If the chat continues, the share dialog says New messages aren't in this snapshot yet and offers Refresh, which updates what the link shows. Until you refresh, recipients see the older version.
To stop sharing, open Share and choose Keep private. The link stops working immediately, and anyone who has it open cannot reload it.
What a link does not show
- Your memory. Dropstone may mention that it drew on a memory; the memory itself is not exposed.
- Notes between people, comments, and highlights in the chat. Those belong to the people in it.
- Files uploaded to a project. Only the conversation is shared.
- Other chats, and your account details.
Reporting a shared chat
The page a public link opens carries a Report button, and it works without signing in, so someone who thinks a shared chat breaks the rules does not need an account to say so.
- Open the shared chat and click Report, beside the note that a shared chat does not represent Dropstone's views.
- Choose a reason. The list covers copyright and trademark infringement, child safety, fraud, sexually explicit content, non-consensual imagery, violence and hate speech, illegal goods, a court order, private or confidential information, defamation, other unlawful content, and a breach of the terms.
- Add details if you want to, then click Submit report. The button then reads Reported.
A report reaches Dropstone's team by email, with the link and the reason. It is a report rather than a takedown: nothing is removed automatically, and there is no reply to the person who reported it. For a reply in your own chat that you are unhappy with, see How do I report a reply or a shared chat?.
Shared CLI sessions
A coding session shared from the CLI with /share opens at chat.dropstone.io too, as a page that shows the files the session changed, each turn's reasoning and commands, and a recap; it stays live while the session is running. /shares in the CLI lists and revokes them.
Sharing copies the session to Dropstone's servers, which is what makes the page work for whoever opens the link. Revoking it from /shares removes that copy, and deleting the session in the CLI revokes it as well.
Sharing and incognito
Incognito chats cannot be shared or have people invited. If you want a shareable record, use a normal chat.
Related articles
- Invite people to a chatInvite people into a live Dropstone chat as editors, who can ask Dropstone, or viewers, who can read and talk to people. One invite link per chat, a People button that shows who is in it and who is online, and an activity log for the owner.
- Work on a chat with other peopleA Dropstone chat can have several people in it at once. Invite them as editors or viewers, take turns asking Dropstone, talk to each other alongside it, comment on replies, mention someone, highlight what matters, and Dropstone keeps the whole thing in view.
- ArtifactsWhen you ask Dropstone for something you can see, a page, a chart, a document, a diagram, a small app, it builds an artifact beside the conversation that you can view, refine, and share.
- Incognito chatsAn incognito chat writes nothing to your memory: nothing you say or correct is kept, and no summary is made. What Dropstone already knows about you is still available to it, so the work gets the same assistant without leaving a trace.
- How Dropstone handles your dataWhat Dropstone stores, for how long, who can see it, whether it is used to improve the models, and the commitments that apply to every account. A plain-language summary of Dropstone's data practices.