Invite members
Invite people to your team, choose their models and roles, and handle approval requests in the Team inbox.
Members join your team by invitation. When you invite someone, you also choose which Claude and Codex models they may use through the team.
Send an invitation
Only the team Owner can send invitations.
- Open the Team view and go to Members.
- Click Invite someone.
- In Email address to invite, type the person's email, for example
person@company.com. - Under Access granted on joining, choose the models:
- Turn on Claude, Codex or both.
- Check the models the person may use. Only checked models appear in their team conversations.
- Click Send invitation.
The person must have a Vato account with that email address. The invitation appears in their Vato right away, or the next time they sign in.
Follow pending invitations
The same dialog lists your Pending invitations. Invitations stay valid for seven days. Before someone accepts, you can still adjust their access, or click Cancel to withdraw the invitation.
Accept an invitation
If you are the person being invited, Vato shows Join team name? with the name of the person who invited you.
- Click Join team to join now.
- Click Later to decide afterwards. You'll find the invitation in Settings → Team under Invitations for you. Click View invitation, then Join team or Decline.
Roles
Each member has a role. It decides which sections of the Team view they see and what they can do.
| Role | What it allows |
|---|---|
| Owner | Everything. Only the owner sends invitations and removes members. |
| Administrator | Everything else, including member roles and access, and the central host in Access. |
| Manager | Manages projects, resources, knowledge and skills. Decides approvals, reads all team conversations and the audit log. |
| Technician | Uses the team's models, skills, projects and resources, and can observe team machines. |
| Auditor | Read-only: reads all team conversations, usage and the audit log. |
| Member | Uses the team's models, skills, projects and knowledge. |
The owner and administrators change a member's role and models from Members:
- Find the person with the search field or the role filter.
- Choose a new Role.
- Expand the row to change which Claude and Codex models the member may use.
- Save the row.
To act on several people at once, select them, pick a role and click the apply button that appears above the list.
Remove a member or leave
- The owner removes a member with Remove on their row. This only removes the person from the team. It does not delete their Vato profile or their local data.
- Someone with the Member role leaves with Leave team at the bottom of Members. To come back, they need a new invitation.
Approvals and the Inbox
Some agent actions need a human decision. These requests land in the team Inbox, grouped by conversation. Every member can open the Inbox; Vato decides who may answer each request.
When requests are waiting, a badge in the title bar shows how many. Click it to open the Inbox directly.
For each request, you see who asked for it and the Time left before expiry. Choose Approve or Deny, or type an Answer and click Send answer when the agent asked a question. Click Open conversation to see the context first.
Next step
Set up the central host so the models you granted are actually available to your members.