How do you vibe code together as a team?

Collaborative vibe coding is several people building one app by describing it to an AI, instead of one person at a keyboard. As of October 2026 tools do it in three ways: one shared AI chat that several people prompt (Bolt in public projects, Figma Make, v0 with edit access, and Lovable's project chat); a copy for each person, merged later (Lovable's drafts and Replit's per-person Agent threads); or one live agent session the group steers together, with a step to approve changes (Poly, Zed's Delta, Conductor's cloud workspaces and Slack Code channels). Which fits depends on whether your group wants to build side by side or together, and on who should approve what the AI changes.

Key takeaways

• One shared chat is the simplest. Bolt charges each prompt to whoever sent it; Lovable spends the owner's credits.
• A copy per person avoids collisions: Lovable's drafts and Replit's tasks merge when someone accepts them.
• One live session suits a mixed group. Poly lets any member approve each change before it lands; Slack Code routes high-stakes changes to a person.
• AI-written code often fails security checks; a 2025 Veracode study found flaws in 45% of cases. Decide who reviews before you ship.

What is collaborative vibe coding?

Vibe coding is building software by describing what you want to an AI and judging the result by running it, rather than reading every line; What is vibe coding? covers the term and its history. The collaborative version adds people: cofounders, a product team, friends. That changes the hard parts. With one person, the question is whether the AI understood. With three, it's who prompts next, whose change wins, who approves what the AI is about to do, and who pays.

Which tools let several people prompt the same AI chat?

• Bolt lets collaborators work in one shared chat thread once the project is public. It processes one prompt at a time, tokens come from whoever sent the prompt, and only the owner manages GitHub. Free; Pro $25 a month; Teams $30 per member.
• Figma Make lets a team work in the same AI conversations, comment and change the generated code at once, and run several chats in one file. It needs a Full seat on a paid Figma plan.
• v0 lets people with Can edit access send and edit prompts in a chat, on Plus ($30 per user a month) and above, though its docs call View and Duplicate the ideal way to collaborate.
• Lovable shows everyone a project's changes as they happen. A message sent while Lovable is working becomes a follow-up it picks up during the run, and collaborators spend the project owner's credits.

Google AI Studio's own docs say it doesn't support real-time collaborative editing and suggest a shared GitHub repository instead.

Which tools give each person their own copy?

• Lovable's drafts. A draft is a branch of the project with its own chat and preview, and accepting it merges it back. Anyone with edit access can accept one. Poly vs Lovable.
• Replit. Each person starts their own Agent threads, every task runs in an isolated copy, and tasks land on a shared board where anyone can review and apply them. Replit's docs say Agent isn't a messaging tool and send team talk to Slack or Discord. Core is $20 a month with five collaborators; Pro is $100 with up to 15.

Which tools put the group in one live agent session?

• Poly (usepoly.co) is a browser room around one agent. Everyone sees each turn as it runs and anyone can prompt; in the modes that ask, any member can approve a change before it lands. Every turn ends with a receipt and can be undone, the app runs in a live preview, and a group chat beside the timeline stays out of the AI's view. Claude, GPT, Grok, Kimi and Muse are included. Free to start; $20 or $50 a month per person who runs the AI.
• Zed's Delta lets you invite teammates into your conversations with agents, where they see the same worktrees, and review happens in subthreads with their own copies. Its docs say it has no agent permission system and doesn't sandbox agents (Delta). On macOS, Linux, Windows and the web; free during its public beta, which began September 16, 2026. Poly vs Zed Delta.
• Conductor shares cloud workspaces with your team: the transcript updates live for everyone, and teammates prompt the same agents. Pro is $50 a month for up to five users, on your own model subscriptions, and the desktop app is Mac only. Poly vs Conductor.
• Slack Code opens a code channel when you mention a coding agent, with a diff, a plan or a live preview, and high-stakes changes can go to a person for approval. Available on any Slack plan, with each agent bought separately. Poly vs Slack Code.

How do you vibe code together safely?

• Decide who approves. With several people prompting, changes land faster than anyone reads them. Pick a tool with a step before changes land, or a review before a draft merges, and agree who uses it.
• Keep secrets out of the chat. Prompts, transcripts and shared chats are read by everyone in them. Put keys in the platform's secret settings, never in a message.
• Review before you ship. Veracode's 2025 study of more than 100 models found AI-generated code introduced security flaws in 45% of cases (Veracode). One public example: CVE-2025-48757 describes missing database access rules in apps generated with Lovable, which Lovable disputes, saying each customer is responsible for their app's data (NVD). Check who can read and write your data before launch.
• Know who pays. Bolt bills whoever sent the prompt, Lovable the owner's workspace, Conductor your own model subscriptions, and Poly the person who runs each turn.

How should a group split the work?

• Agree on the plan before anyone prompts, in a doc or a chat the AI can't read, so the AI isn't building from an argument.
• One request per turn. Short, specific prompts are easier for everyone else to follow and undo.
• Use copies for separate features and one session for the same feature. Drafts and branches keep two features apart; a shared session keeps two people on one.
• Keep a record of who asked for what. It matters when something breaks.

Which should you pick?

• Two or three friends building something quick, everyone prompting: Bolt, in a public project, or Lovable.
• Designers and product people prototyping: Figma Make.
• Several features at once, merged later: Lovable's drafts or Replit.
• A mixed group that wants to see and approve every change: Poly.
• Engineers on Zed, or engineers who want many agents: Delta or Conductor.
• A company that lives in Slack: Slack Code.