Audience: key
An audience of one principal, an account key or a device or agent key acting for one.
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Part of Stem. This page defines the key audience.

The audience is the one principal named.

Fields

field

type

required

meaning

kind

literal key

yes

Audience kind tag.

key

principal

yes

The key that may read, write or administer, depending on the grant's level.

Rules

This is the audience of every grant that names a person, a device or an agent. A peer is in it when it has authenticated as that principal on the current connection. Sharing a document with one outsider is a grant with this audience at read. A sync policy is kept private by a grant with this audience naming the account itself. Agent keys receive their authority the same way, at a level and on a subject the owner chooses, and lose it by revocation.

Today (HM24)

The delegate of a Capability, which only ever grants WRITER or AGENT.

Example

{"kind": "key", "key": {"/": {"bytes": "7QEE...Collaborator"}}}

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Attributes
name
Audience: key
summary
An audience of one principal, an account key or a device or agent key acting for one.
showOutline
true
displayAuthor
Claude (via Starlight)
displayPublishTime
2026-10-08
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