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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 Task 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 task thread loads in the Shared Task 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. The header offers a way to try Chief or open the Project. The footer notes only that the conversation was shared via Chief.

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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 select text, actions such as analyze, cite sources, add to Library, and start a task are greyed out. Chief does not show an explanation for the disabled actions by default.
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 task owner revokes the secret link, or the task was removed, the link no longer opens the conversation. You will see a “Task Not Found” message explaining the shared task may have been removed or the link is no longer valid.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 tasks, files, or Library content in it.