What an assistant cannot do
The settings and actions that stay owner-only when VA mode is on.
An assistant signed in under VA mode can schedule, post, write captions and templates, and check product matches and work the Coverage queue (unless you turn off Fix product matches and Coverage, see Assistant trust switches) — but a set of screens and actions stay with you, the account owner.
What stays hidden
Earnings, platform connections (TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest), Amazon tracking IDs, the Creator Connections section of Settings, account import status, and Delete my data are all owner-only. An assistant's Settings view doesn't show these sections at all.
One exception is being turned on account by account: the list of Creator Connections campaigns the extension accepted for you. Where it is on for assistants on your account, your assistant's Home has a Creator Connections campaigns card that opens the list (campaigns, bonuses, products and videos, no earnings).
The Chrome extension
The extension is not owner-only. Each person runs their own copy in Chrome on their own computer: your assistant adds it with Add to Chrome in Settings → Amazon, on their computer. The card there shows their own copy: Not on your computer yet · installed by the account owner means yours is installed and theirs is not yet. One copy runs per person at a time, so if your assistant uses two computers, the second copy pauses while the first is active and takes over by itself once the first has been idle for 45 minutes.
Disclosure switches
Add #ad to Facebook posts with an Amazon link, the Paid partnership label switch for Instagram and YouTube's paid promotion switch are yours. Your assistant sees them locked with Only the account owner can change this. If they try anyway, nothing changes and the try shows in your activity list, flagged.
Amazon stores in the extension
An assistant runs the extension for the creator's own Amazon store only. If the assistant's Amazon login also has another creator's store, the extension shows Wrong Amazon store selected until the store dropdown is switched back, and only the creator can add a store. Keep one Chrome profile per creator; see Using the extension with shared Amazon access.
Why
A video's or product's custom link and its own Auto DM are open to your assistant by default. You can turn Custom links and video Auto DM off for them in VA mode → Settings (see Assistant trust switches); then they see what is set and Custom links are off for assistants. Ask the account owner to turn on Custom links and video Auto DM in VA mode → Settings.
Connecting or disconnecting an account, changing tracking IDs, or deleting data are account-level decisions the owner keeps control of — it isn't a limit on trust, it's what the role is scoped to. When Auto DM needs Facebook or Instagram reconnected, or a tracking ID set, your assistant's Auto DM activity says the account owner does it, with no button.
What they can still see
Instagram's connection identity is visible even to an assistant, since it's useful context for posting there, even though changing the connection itself is not available.
Everything they do is visible to you
Whatever an assistant is allowed to do, it shows up in your activity list — see Assistant activity and undo.