Manage sessions

A terminal opens through a work session, and the connection stays alive even if you close the browser tab. You can reconnect anytime, and—on supported plans—share a session with teammates for real-time collaboration.

Reconnect to a session

Terminal sessions stay active in the background. To return to one, reopen the session and launch the terminal again. Active sessions appear under Access > Sessions; superusers can also see others’ active sessions.

To end a terminal, type exit, or close it from the session.

Share a session

Need someone to help debug? Share your terminal so they can watch—or type alongside you.

Note: Session sharing requires the Essentials plan or above. On the Free plan, sharing shows an upgrade prompt.

Click Share on the session and choose one of:

  • Invite by email — enter one or more email addresses to invite people directly.
  • One-time access link — generate a link to share.

When creating a link, set:

  • User permission — choose Read only (watch only) or Read & write (type commands). Links are read-only by default.
  • Link expiration — from 5 to 180 minutes (in 5-minute steps; default 30 minutes). The link is single-use: it also expires immediately after it’s first accessed.

Share the link with your teammate. To join, they enter a nickname (shown to collaborators) and the session password.

Participants

The Participants panel lists everyone in the session. As the owner you can:

  • change a participant’s permission between Read only and Writable;
  • remove a participant with Let out.

Note: A superuser can Force close another user’s session from the session list.

Use cases for sharing

  • Debug together — a teammate sees exactly what you see and can suggest or run commands.
  • Train safely — share read-only so others can observe without typing.
  • Get help — bring in a senior engineer to look at live output.
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