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Drive & RAG·May 1, 2026·2 min read
Share files securely with one sentence
Grant access to a specific person at the right permission level. No clicking through Drive's sharing dialog.
Drive's share dialog has too many options. Most of the time you want: "give this one person commenter access."
You: Share the budget sheet with sarah@acme.com as a commenter.
Kin: Granting commenter access on Budget 2026.xlsx to sarah@acme.com. Send notification email? (yes/no)
You: Yes.
Kin: ✓ Shared. Sarah will get the standard Google notification.
Permission levels
- reader — can view, can't comment or edit
- commenter — can view and leave comments, can't edit
- writer — full edit access
If you don't specify, Kin asks. Defaults aren't safe enough for sharing.
What Kin won't do
- Share with "anyone with the link" without you explicitly saying so. That's permission_type=
anyone, which is broadcast. The default is share-by-email so a specific human gets access. - Share files you haven't named. "Share that doc" with no context will get a "which doc?" before anything happens.
- Share without quoting the file name back. Wrong file shared is worse than no file shared.
Bulk unsharing (when slug rolls out)
Coming soon: listing existing permissions on a file and revoking them. For now, removing access happens in Drive directly. If you ask Kin to "unshare" today, it'll redirect you to the file with a link.
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