# Private games & sharing

> Share private games and releases with other accounts through grants.

A private game is only loadable by you, but sometimes you want to share it: a
friend hosting a test, a partner running it in their room. A **grant** gives
one other account access to your private game or to one release of it. It
never makes the content public or listed.

## Granting access

In the Creator Portal, open the game's **Access** page and enter a username. Leave
the release empty to grant the **whole game** (all its private releases,
including future ones), or pick **one private release**. The grant applies
immediately, with no acceptance step. Grants follow the account, so they stay
valid when the grantee renames.

disko doesn't notify the other person, so tell them yourself.

## Using a grant

The grantee sees the grant under **Shared with me**, with the reference to
load. A room loads it like any release:

```text
gabriel/arena@1.4.2
```

A room is authorized as its owner's account, so rooms owned by the grantee
can host it. Local game directories and archives involve no registry and no
access check.

## Revoking and leaving

The owner can **Revoke** a grant and the grantee can **Leave** it; both take
effect immediately. Access is checked on every load, so the next load fails
with `game_not_found`. Rooms already running the game keep running.

CLI tokens never read private releases; sharing and grants are managed only
in the Creator Portal.