User Roles

Every user has one of three roles that determine their system-wide capabilities.

• Admin: can manage users and all server content
• Developer: can deploy items
• Consumer: can only view items

Capability	Admin	Developer	Consumer
View internal items	✅	✅	✅
View external items	✅	✅	✅
Deploy content	✅	✅	❌
Manage own items	✅	✅	❌
Access all items	✅	❌	❌
Manage server	✅	❌	❌
Assign user roles	✅	❌	❌

Default User Role

When new users authenticate for the first time, they are assigned a default role. The default role is Developer.

Note

We do not yet support roles provided from an external identity provider.

On a self-hosted instance you can change the default with default_role in ricochet-config.toml. See Configuration Overview. On ricochet Cloud the default is set for you and cannot be changed.

Admin

Administrators have full access to all actions in the ricochet UI including the following capabilities.

• Manage all content items on the server
• Manage all users and their roles
• Access all deployed items regardless of access permissions

Developer

Developers can create and manage their own content:

• Deploy items to ricochet using the CLI or Git
• Manage settings for items they own
• Collaborate on items they’ve been invited to
• View internal and external items they own or are collaborators to

Developers cannot:

• Access other users’ private items (unless added as a collaborator)
• Manage server settings
• Assign user roles

Consumer

Consumers have view-only access:

• View items they have permission to access
• Cannot deploy or modify any items
• Cannot access private items unless explicitly granted access as a collaborator

Consumers are ideal for:

• Stakeholders who need to view dashboards and reports
• External users accessing public content
• Teams that consume data products without creating them

Note

User roles are separate from content-level collaborator roles. A developer might be an “owner” of one item and a “contributor” on another item.

Assigning Roles

User roles are assigned by administrators through the ricochet admin interface.

Initial Login: When users authenticate for the first time via OIDC, they are automatically assigned the default role configured in your settings.

Changing Roles: Administrators can change user roles from the Users page /users, selecting the user, and changing their Role.