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Invite people

The codes screen of p99 tui: who can file on which hosts, active and revoked

P99 has no accounts and no sign-up. Each person you invite gets a personal code, 12 characters, for one or more hosts of one account. The “?” shows only in a browser that holds a code; everyone else sees nothing.

Mint a code

Section titled “Mint a code”
Terminal window
p99 invite example.com shop.example.com --name "Grace Hopper" --email grace@example.com
Grace Hopper <grace@example.com>
secret: <code>
link:   https://example.com/#p99=<code>
link:   https://shop.example.com/#p99=<code>
this is the only time the secret is shown

In place of <code> it prints the 12 characters of the new code. Send the person a link. They open it once: the page keeps the code in the site’s localStorage and removes it from the address bar and the history entry at once. The code sits in the link’s fragment, which the browser never sends to a server, so it stays out of your server’s, Cloudflare’s and any analytics’ logs and Referer headers. Treat the link as the secret it is. P99 keeps only the code’s SHA-256, so a lost secret can’t be shown again: mint a new code.

--json prints the code object, the secret and the links, for a script that sends the invitations.

Members and managers

Section titled “Members and managers”

A code holder files bugs, ideas, improvements and questions, and sees and follows only what they reported. Add --manager to let the person see and change every item, file tasks and write internal comments:

Terminal window
p99 invite example.com --name "Ada Lovelace" --email ada@example.com --manager

The e-mail you gave p99 setup is a manager from the start: it is in the Worker’s MANAGERS secret, and so is anyone you add there.

Each code is limited to 120 requests a minute, and a member to 30 items, 200 comments and 100 MiB of files a day. Managers have no daily limits.

See who holds a code

Section titled “See who holds a code”
Terminal window
p99 invites
p99 invites --host shop.example.com
   1  active  Ada Lovelace <ada@example.com>  manager  ...7k2q  2026-09-14 12:00  hosts: example.com, shop.example.com  last used: 2026-10-14 11:48
   2  revoked  Grace Hopper <grace@example.com>  member  ...3fpd  2026-09-19 12:00  hosts: shop.example.com  last used: 2026-09-22 12:00
   3  active  Grace Hopper <grace@example.com>  member  ...m9xa  2026-09-23 12:00  hosts: example.com, shop.example.com  last used: 2026-10-14 11:48

Each line is the code’s id, its state, the person, the role, the secret’s last four characters, when it was made, its hosts and when it was last used. In p99 tui, tab switches to the same list on the Codes screen, with / to filter it.

Revoke a code

Section titled “Revoke a code”
Terminal window
p99 revoke 3
revoked code 3 of Grace Hopper <grace@example.com>

The next request with that code answers 401, and the loader forgets it, so the “?” disappears from that browser. The person’s items and comments stay. To give someone a new code, mint one; a code can’t be changed or shown again.

Next

Section titled “Next”

Work the inbox: read and answer what people file.