Your connectors in other people's profiles
When you connect a platform, you sign in with your own account. Every call made through that connection is your account doing the work: your name on the vendor's audit trail, your rate limits, your access.
So the connection stays yours to control, wherever it ends up being used, even in a profile you did not build and cannot use.
Where your connector is used
An owner or admin can add your connection to any profile in the workspace. When they do, two things happen.
You get an email and a notification naming who did it and which profile. That one cannot be switched off. Every other notification in Settings → Notifications can, but not this one, because it is the only automatic signal that your credentials are now reachable from somewhere you did not set up.
The profile also appears on your Profiles page, marked Uses your connector, even though you are not a member of it.
A profile marked "Uses your connector" is not an endpoint you can connect an AI client to. You are being shown where your credentials went, not given access. To use an endpoint you still have to be assigned to it.
What you can change
Open that profile and you will find everything greyed out except your own connection. On that one row you can:
- Turn tools off. Narrow what your connection exposes on this endpoint, without affecting the same connection anywhere else.
- Make it read only. Lock writes off for this endpoint.
- Remove it from the profile. Your connection comes off entirely and that endpoint can no longer reach it.
You cannot turn tools back on, raise the ceiling, rename the profile, change who can use it, or touch anyone else's connections. The rule is that you can always tighten, never loosen: it is your credential, but it is their endpoint's policy.
If you take your connection off a profile, any AI client using that endpoint loses those tools immediately. The people who use it are told, but they are told after the fact. If the profile has no other connections it stops working altogether.
That is the intended trade. The alternative would let someone pin your credentials in place by making yours the only connection on an endpoint.
The blunt version
There is a second lever on the Connectors page: the connection's own tool selection. That one is workspace-wide. Turning a tool off there removes it from every profile using that connection, including your own.
Use the per-profile controls above when one endpoint is doing something you did not intend. Use the connector page when you never want that tool exposed at all.
What other people see
Nothing changes for them except the endpoint itself. Someone with a connector on a profile does not see the profile's member list, cannot open its settings, and does not appear as a member of it.
See also Roles for the three reasons a profile appears in your list, and Permissions for the capability each role starts with.