Sharing answers as public permalinks

Generate a public URL for a specific answer + its citations. No signup needed to view.

What it does

Click Share this answer below any chat reply. We:

  1. Create a shared_answers row tied to your account + vault
  2. Copy the resulting /share/{id} URL to your clipboard
  3. Show a confirmation toast with the link as fallback if your browser blocked the clipboard write

What recipients see

Anyone with the link sees:

  • Your question
  • The full answer text
  • All citations (titles, page numbers, snippets)
  • Date shared + view count
  • A "Build your own peptides knowledge base" CTA back to signup

Recipients do not see your email, your other answers, the underlying source files, or your vault metadata. Only the single answer is exposed.

Open-graph cards

When you paste a share link into Slack, Discord, Twitter/X, or most email clients, the preview card shows the question as the title and the first 160 characters of the answer as the description. So "What does the evidence say about BPC-157?" gives a meaningful preview rather than "Peptides Vault."

Revoking a share

From any of your shares (visible at /profile → Shares), click Revoke. The URL immediately returns 404. Anyone who's already opened the page in their browser tab won't get a live update — they'll see the next page load fail.

View counts

Every server-side fetch of the share URL bumps a view counter (rate-limited to once per request — refreshes count). Useful for seeing whether your social post actually got clicks.

What you can't do (yet)

  • Expire a share automatically — set-it-and-forget-it permanent until you revoke
  • Password-protect a share — public is public, revoke if you want to take it back
  • Embed a chat thread (multi-turn) — single answer only for now
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