Radial app

Editor links

An editor link lets someone edit a site in Radial with no GitHub account: a client, a marketer, a writer, anyone who should be able to change the site without becoming a developer first. They get the full Radial app and their own local agent; their clone, pulls, and publishes travel through Radial's publish service instead of their own GitHub access.

Creating a link

Open the project's Hand Off card and check Editor link. The first time you share an editor link for a repo, Radial asks you to install the Radial.to GitHub App on that repo. It's one click, it happens once per repo, and Radial walks you through it. The app is what lets the publish service move the editor's changes without anyone handing over credentials.

Require your approval

The Editor link checkbox has one sub-setting: Require your approval. With it on, the editor's production publishes arrive as requests, and you approve them inside Radial: Hand Off card → Editors… → Approve & publish. With it off, their publishes go live directly. Either way, editors can always publish staging previews without approval, so review never blocks their work in progress.

What the editor experiences

Opening the link on a brand-new Mac walks through setup automatically: Apple's developer tools, then Claude Code install and sign-in. After that, Radial clones the site and opens it. They edit with their own local agent, preview live, and publish like any other Radial user. On an approval-required site, publishing to production shows Sent for approval instead of going live.

Managing links

Hand Off card → Editors… lists every active edit link for the site and can turn any of them off immediately. The same panel holds the approval queue, so pending publish requests and the links that produced them live in one place.

Free and Pro

The free plan includes one editor per site; creating a new editor link replaces the previous one. Radial Pro ($149/yr) makes editors unlimited per site. Radial is free as a personal tool; you pay when your site becomes a business.

How it stays safe

• No credentials, ever. Radial never sees or stores anyone's GitHub credentials. Creating a link proves your repo access using your own GitHub tooling, and the editor never needs any.
• One repo, revocable. Each edit link is scoped to exactly one repo, and you can turn it off at any moment from the Editors panel.
• Narrow by design. Edit links cannot delete branches or push anything except normal branch updates.
• Approval means approval. On approval-required sites, the production branch only moves through a request you approved.