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Summary Goal: Understand which project actions require the update permission in Braintrust. Features: Project-level access control (ACL), permission management, retention policies.

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What Update Permission Allows

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Project-Level Resources

  • Project: Edit name and description
  • Project scores: Create, update, delete human review scores (not automated evaluation scores)
  • Project tags: Create, update, delete
  • Span iframes: Create, update, delete
  • MCP servers: Create, update, delete
  • Project automations: Create, update, delete retention policies and other automations

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Project Resources

  • Experiments: Modify metadata and experiment data
  • Datasets: Modify dataset metadata and rows
  • Logs: Modify logs in the project

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What Update Permission Does Not Include

  • Delete: Deleting projects or resources requires separate Delete permission
  • Manage access: Changing access permissions requires separate Manage access permission
  • Create: Creating new experiments, datasets, or logs requires separate Create permission