Share a connector with your team

Last updated: September 4, 2026

A shared connector lets one person sign in to an app once — GitHub, Linear, Google Sheets, Atlassian — and lets teammates use that connection without signing in themselves. A Rhythms Admin shares a connection from Settings › Workspace › Connectors, choosing specific people, teams or the whole workspace. Teammates then see it in My connectors marked "Shared by [name]", and Rhythms uses it automatically in chat, in playbooks and in MCP calls.

When to share a connection

Share a connection when everyone on a team works against the same source: a shared GitHub organisation, a team Jira project, a service account on a data warehouse, or a reporting spreadsheet one person maintains. Sharing also removes a common onboarding stall — a new team member can ask the agent about the team's work before they have connected anything themselves. Each person can still add a personal connection alongside the shared one and choose which to use.

Share a connection (Rhythms Admins)

  1. Open Settings › Workspace › Connectors.

  2. Click the connector's row and open the Connections tab in the side panel. You can also click the number in the Connections column for a full-page list.

  3. Find the connection you want to share, open its actions menu (three dots) and choose Manage sharing.

  4. In the sharing dialog, set general access to Everyone at [your workspace] to share with the whole workspace, or keep Only invited users and teams and add people by name or email, and teams by name.

  5. Click Save.

The connection's badge in the panel updates to Workspace, Limited (with a count of people and teams) or Private. People you share with can use the connection; they cannot change its sharing or remove it — only the connection's owner or a Rhythms Admin can do that. They also never see the underlying credentials.

Connect and share in one step

If nobody has connected the app yet, a Rhythms Admin can click Connect on the connector's row on the Connectors page, sign in with the account the team should use, and then share the new connection as above.

Who can share

Sharing is done from Settings and is available to Rhythms Admins. Members can connect their own accounts in My connectors but cannot share them from there today; ask a Rhythms Admin to share a connection for you.

Use a connection that was shared with you

  1. Open My connectors from the bottom-left corner of the sidebar.

  2. A connector with a shared connection appears as connected with a Shared pill. Its card says Shared by [name], or Shared with you when the owner is not shown.

  3. There is nothing to configure. When the shared connection is the only one you can use for that connector, Rhythms uses it automatically.

Rhythms uses the shared connection wherever the agent runs for you: web chat, Slack and Microsoft Teams, playbooks, and AI tools connected through the Rhythms MCP server.

Choose a default when you have more than one connection

You may end up with several connections for the same connector — your own plus one shared with you, or two shared by different owners. In that case the connector's card in My connectors shows Pick a connection. Click the connection you want and it becomes your default for that connector; the card shows whose credentials are in use. You can change the default at any time. Defaults are per person and per connector, and apply only to user-scoped connectors.

Which connectors can be shared

Sharing applies to user-scoped connectors — nearly everything in the catalogue, including Linear, GitHub, Atlassian, Google Sheets, HubSpot, Salesforce and the Microsoft Teams Messaging and Microsoft Teams Meetings connectors, where each person would otherwise connect their own account.

The exceptions are the workspace-level bots. The Slack bot and the Microsoft Teams bot that post notifications and answer questions are installed once for the whole workspace under Settings › Workspace › Collaboration platforms; everyone uses them without any sharing step, and they do not appear on the Connectors page.

A shared connection only works while a Rhythms Admin has the connector enabled. If the connector is disabled, the shared connection is unusable until it is enabled again. See Manage connectors for your workspace.

Stop sharing or remove a shared connection

To narrow access, open Manage sharing again, switch general access back to Only invited users and teams, and remove people or teams. To remove the connection entirely, choose Disconnect from the same actions menu; the confirmation lists the auto-updates and playbooks that depend on it, because they stop working for everyone once the connection is gone.

Frequently asked questions

Do my teammates see my credentials? No. Teammates run actions through the shared connection, but tokens, passwords and other credentials are stored encrypted and are never shown to anyone.

I have both my own connection and a shared one for the same tool. Which does Rhythms use? Whichever you picked under Pick a connection in My connectors. Until you pick, Rhythms uses the first one it can see, so set a default if it matters.

I only have access to a shared connection. Do I need to do anything? No. Rhythms uses the shared connection automatically when it is the only one available to you.

Can I share with the whole workspace at once? Yes. In the sharing dialog, set general access to Everyone at [your workspace].

Does sharing work in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor through Rhythms MCP? Yes. Rhythms resolves the connection for you — your default, or the only one available — and uses it whether the request came from the Rhythms app or from an AI tool connected through MCP.

What happens if the owner of a shared connection leaves? If their access to the tool is revoked, the connection starts showing Needs attention for everyone who uses it. A Rhythms Admin should connect with another account, share that, and disconnect the old one.

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