# Sharing Containers

By default, only the person who creates a container can access it. You can share containers with other members of your organization by granting them a specific permission level.

## Permission Levels

Each person you share with gets one of three permission levels:

| Permission | What they can do |
|------------|-----------------|
| **Viewer** | View container details, search, and explore |
| **Editor** | Everything a viewer can do, plus write entries, delete entries, upload files, and trigger analysis |
| **Admin** | Full access including container settings and sharing |

The container creator always has admin access.

## Sharing a Container

1. Open the container in the Wire dashboard
2. Go to the **Sharing** tab
3. Search for a member by name or email
4. Choose a permission level
5. Click **Share**

The person will see the container in their dashboard under "Shared with you" immediately.

:::note
Only container admins and organization owners can share containers or change permissions. If you don't see the sharing controls, ask the container creator or an org owner to grant you admin access.
:::

## Managing Access

### Changing permissions

Click the permission badge next to a person's name on the Sharing page. A dialog will open where you can change their permission level.

### Removing access

Click the **X** button next to a person's name. Their access is revoked immediately.

## How Containers Appear in the Dashboard

The Wire dashboard separates containers based on your relationship to them:

- **Your Containers** shows containers you created
- **Shared with you** shows containers others have shared with you

On the full Containers page, pill tabs let you filter between **All**, **Mine**, and **Shared with me**.

Every container card shows stacked avatars of the people who have access, so you can see at a glance who's collaborating on a container.

## Organization Role vs Container Permission

Wire has two layers of access control:

1. **Organization role** (owner, admin, member) controls what you can do across the organization
2. **Container permission** (viewer, editor, admin) controls what you can do within a specific container

Organization owners and admins can view all containers through the **Container Management** page (accessible from the user menu), but they need an explicit container grant to edit or upload files to a container they didn't create. The Container Management page also lets owners and admins pause, delete, or manage sharing for any container in the organization.

Members can only see containers they created or were explicitly shared with.

See [Roles & Permissions](/reference/roles/) for the full organization-level permission matrix.

## Credit Usage

All tool calls on shared containers consume credits from the organization's balance, regardless of who makes the call. The container owner's organization is always billed.

## Next Steps

- [Public Containers](/guides/public-containers/) -- Share containers with anyone, no authentication required
- [Roles & Permissions](/reference/roles/) -- Organization-level access control
- [Authentication](/mcp/authentication/) -- OAuth and API key setup for programmatic access