Ownership rules

PromptsVault separates viewing from editing. Sharing a prompt or folder never lets someone else change it. Only the owner does.

The rule

You own a prompt if you created it. You own a folder if you created it. Ownership is checked on the server using your authenticated user ID, not anything stored in the browser.

This gives you four roles in practice:

Source	You can view	You can copy	You can favorite	You can edit	You can delete
Prompts you created	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
Team-shared prompts	yes	yes	yes	no	no
Prompts inside a shared folder	yes	yes	yes	no	no
Pack prompts you purchased	yes	yes	yes	no	no

Why this matters

Prompts get refined over time. Letting any teammate rewrite a shared prompt would silently change it for everyone else. By keeping ownership tight, the original author always knows what's in the folder.

If you want a teammate to take over a prompt, the simplest path is:

1. They favorite the prompt.
2. They create their own copy by clicking Duplicate in the three-dot menu.
3. They share their copy back with the team.

Pack folders

Premium pack folders enforce ownership at the database level: even the schema rejects edits that target a pack folder. See Pack folders for how those protections work.

Account-level enforcement

If someone tries to call an edit API directly, the database denies it with a permission error. The UI just hides the action so you do not see options you cannot use.