> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.ref.tools/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Access Control

> Role-based access control for Ref teams.

Ref allows you to give different members of your team different capabilities, so that you're in control of how your team uses Ref.

## Roles

| Role   | Capabilities                                                               |
| ------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Admin  | Search context index, add content to index, invite members, manage billing |
| Writer | Search context index and add content to index                              |
| Reader | Search context index                                                       |

> All team members can read and write plans regardless of role. Reader and Writer roles only affect permissions for the shared context index (indexed repositories).

## Management

Roles can be managed from [ref.tools/team](https://ref.tools/team). Make sure that your team is selected in the workspace picker in the top-left of the page.

## How to only use public docs

Some teams use Ref to only search public documentation sources. The best way to manage this is have one user sign up as an `admin` and invite the rest of the users as `readers`. Then no one will be able to index private sources.