Working together
Open the same file as a teammate, see each other's edits live, and know who should save.
When you and a teammate open the same spreadsheet or document, you see each other in it. Avatars at the top show who has the file open, colored cursors and selections show where each person is, and their edits appear in your preview live, in a color distinct from your own. In documents, a pulsing ring marks a teammate who's actively editing.
How shared editing works
- While Live is on, edits are visible to everyone the moment they're made, saved or not.
- Save to file writes the file for everyone. After a save, that's the version every viewer and the terminal sees.
- Reset affects only the edits made in your own preview; each person's Reset applies to their own edits.
Make edits freely. When working together, agree on one person to save the shared checkpoint; when working alone, save periodically to limit what a conflict could clear (see Editing in the preview).
Live and Paused
The Live/Paused toggle controls incoming edits from teammates. Pause it to hold the file still while you read; while paused, their edits don't change your view, and resuming updates your view at once to the current state of the file. Pausing only affects what you see; it doesn't hide your activity from teammates.
When the terminal writes
If the terminal writes to a file you have open together, editing pauses briefly and "Syncing agent changes" appears. When the write finishes, the preview shows the changes and editing resumes for everyone, so your edits and the terminal's don't land on top of each other.
Next steps
- Editing in the preview: how edits, saves, and refused saves work.
- Recover files: every save, by anyone, creates a version you can return to.