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When someone sends you a Chief secret link, you can open the conversation without an account or Project membership. You arrive in a read-only Shared Chat view as a guest. This article explains what that view shows and where its limits are.

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What you see as a guest

Open the link and the full chat thread loads in the Shared Chat view. You can read every message and answer, scroll the whole conversation, and — if the link pointed to a specific answer or highlighted passage — the page scrolls to that spot automatically. A footer notes that the conversation was shared via Chief and offers a way to try Chief or open the Project.

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What you can’t do as a guest

The shared view is read-only. As a guest you cannot send messages, edit anything, or use Project actions. If you try to act on the text — for example to analyze it, cite sources, add it to a Library, or chat with it — Chief tells you that you must be a member of the Project to do that.
ℹ️ Good to know: To go beyond reading — to reply, run actions, or open the full Project — you need to sign in to Chief with an account that has access to that Project. Reading a shared link does not add you to the Project.
If the chat owner revokes the secret link, or the chat was removed, the link no longer opens the conversation. You will see a “Chat Not Found” message explaining the shared chat may have been removed or the link is no longer valid.

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FAQ

No. Actions like analyze, cite sources, and add to Library are reserved for signed-in members of the Project. As a guest you have read-only access. Sign in with a Project account to unlock them.
No. A secret link grants read-only access to that one thread only. It does not make you a member of the Project or reveal any other chats, files, or Library content in it.