diff --git a/e2e/USER_STORIES.md b/e2e/USER_STORIES.md
index efd70061..0b1c4051 100644
--- a/e2e/USER_STORIES.md
+++ b/e2e/USER_STORIES.md
@@ -1521,6 +1521,20 @@ Acceptance:
 - She still sees "Action Items", which is the queue `allowpubkey` resolves.
 - admin, who owns the relay and so holds every method, sees all three.
 
+### US-130 — Share out admin permissions
+
+As admin, I want to hand a member individual management permissions and see who
+holds what, so that moderation is shared without handing anyone the whole relay.
+
+Acceptance:
+
+- "Admins" in the directory's menu lists the space's owner and everyone holding
+  assigned methods, each with a badge per permission they hold.
+- Checking permissions under a member's "Edit permissions" puts them in that
+  list, and unchecking those permissions takes them back out.
+- A member given "List banned members" finds "Banned Members" in the directory
+  menu they had no menu in before, and still no "Admins".
+
 ### US-098 — Browse and create hosted spaces
 
 As a space owner, I want to see the spaces I host and spin up new ones, so that
diff --git a/e2e/specs/admin.spec.ts b/e2e/specs/admin.spec.ts
index 7684d04e..97ea6d05 100644
--- a/e2e/specs/admin.spec.ts
+++ b/e2e/specs/admin.spec.ts
@@ -83,6 +83,11 @@ const openSpaceMenu = (page: Page) => page.getByRole("button", {name: /space\.te
 const memberCard = (page: Page, name: string) =>
   page.locator(".card-interactive").filter({hasText: name})
 
+// Exact, because several permission names are a substring of another — "Ban members" of "Unban
+// members".
+const permission = (scope: Locator, name: string) =>
+  scope.getByRole("checkbox", {name, exact: true})
+
 const openEventMenu = (card: Locator) => menuButton(card).click()
 
 const articleCard = (page: Page, title: string) =>
@@ -715,6 +720,75 @@ test("US-097 work through the action-items queue", async ({seed, as}) => {
   await expect(bobsSpace.getByRole("button", {name: /^Action Items/})).toHaveCount(0)
 })
 
+test("US-130 share out admin permissions", async ({seed, as}) => {
+  const scenario = await seed(({relay, user}) => {
+    const space = relay("space")
+
+    space.room("general", {name: "General"})
+    space.join(user.admin, "general")
+    space.join(user.bob, "general")
+    space.profile(user.bob, {name: "Bob Barnacle"})
+  })
+
+  const {url} = scenario.space("space")
+  const admin = await as(users.admin, spacePath(url) + "/directory")
+
+  await expect(memberCard(admin, "Bob Barnacle")).toBeVisible()
+
+  await admin.getByRole("button", {name: "More options"}).click()
+  await menuItem(admin, "Admins").click()
+
+  const admins = dialog(admin, "Admins")
+
+  // The owner holds every method implicitly, so the relay leaves them out of listmethodassignees
+  // and the client names them from the space's nip 11 pubkey instead.
+  await expect(admins.locator(".badge").filter({hasText: "Owner"})).toBeVisible()
+  await expect(admins.getByText("Nobody else has been given management permissions.")).toBeVisible()
+
+  await admins.getByRole("button", {name: "Go back"}).click()
+
+  await memberCard(admin, "Bob Barnacle").getByRole("button").last().click()
+  await menuItem(admin, "Edit permissions").click()
+
+  const permissions = dialog(admin, "Edit Permissions")
+
+  await permission(permissions, "Ban members").check()
+  await permission(permissions, "List banned members").check()
+  await permissions.getByRole("button", {name: "Save changes"}).click()
+
+  await expect(admin.getByRole("alert")).toContainText("Permissions updated!")
+
+  await admin.getByRole("button", {name: "More options"}).click()
+  await menuItem(admin, "Admins").click()
+
+  await expect(
+    admins.locator(".card").filter({hasText: "Bob Barnacle"}).locator(".badge"),
+  ).toHaveText(["Ban members", "List banned members"])
+
+  await admins.getByRole("button", {name: "Go back"}).click()
+
+  // bob holds two methods now, so he gets the one control they cover and nothing else
+  const bob = await as(users.bob, spacePath(url) + "/directory")
+
+  await bob.getByRole("button", {name: "More options"}).click()
+
+  await expect(menuItem(bob, "Banned Members")).toBeVisible()
+  await expect(menuItem(bob, "Admins")).toHaveCount(0)
+
+  await memberCard(admin, "Bob Barnacle").getByRole("button").last().click()
+  await menuItem(admin, "Edit permissions").click()
+  await permission(permissions, "Ban members").uncheck()
+  await permission(permissions, "List banned members").uncheck()
+  await permissions.getByRole("button", {name: "Save changes"}).click()
+
+  await expect(admin.getByRole("alert")).toContainText("Permissions updated!")
+
+  await admin.getByRole("button", {name: "More options"}).click()
+  await menuItem(admin, "Admins").click()
+
+  await expect(admins.getByText("Nobody else has been given management permissions.")).toBeVisible()
+})
+
 test("US-098 browse and create hosted spaces", async ({seed, as}) => {
   await seed(({relay, user}) => {
     const space = relay("space")
diff --git a/src/app/components/SpaceAdmins.svelte b/src/app/components/SpaceAdmins.svelte
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7e6491ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/app/components/SpaceAdmins.svelte
@@ -0,0 +1,112 @@
+<script lang="ts">
+  import {onMount} from "svelte"
+  import {Relays} from "@welshman/app"
+  import AltArrowLeft from "@assets/icons/alt-arrow-left.svg?dataurl"
+  import Pen from "@assets/icons/pen.svg?dataurl"
+  import Badge from "@lib/components/Badge.svelte"
+  import Button from "@lib/components/Button.svelte"
+  import Icon from "@lib/components/Icon.svelte"
+  import Spinner from "@lib/components/Spinner.svelte"
+  import Modal from "@lib/components/Modal.svelte"
+  import ModalBody from "@lib/components/ModalBody.svelte"
+  import ModalHeader from "@lib/components/ModalHeader.svelte"
+  import ModalTitle from "@lib/components/ModalTitle.svelte"
+  import ModalSubtitle from "@lib/components/ModalSubtitle.svelte"
+  import ModalFooter from "@lib/components/ModalFooter.svelte"
+  import Profile from "@app/components/Profile.svelte"
+  import RelayName from "@app/components/RelayName.svelte"
+  import SpaceMemberMethods from "@app/components/SpaceMemberMethods.svelte"
+  import {fromApp} from "@app/core"
+  import {
+    deriveSpaceMethodAssignees,
+    deriveSpaceSupportedMethods,
+    displayManagementMethod,
+    loadSpaceMethodAssignees,
+  } from "@app/management"
+  import {pushModal} from "@app/modal"
+  import {pushToast} from "@app/toast"
+
+  type Props = {
+    url: string
+  }
+
+  const {url}: Props = $props()
+
+  const relay = fromApp($app => $app.use(Relays).one(url))
+  const assignees = deriveSpaceMethodAssignees(url)
+  const supportedMethods = deriveSpaceSupportedMethods(url)
+  const canEdit = $derived(
+    ["assignmethod", "unassignmethod"].some(method => $supportedMethods.includes(method)),
+  )
+
+  const back = () => history.back()
+
+  const editMethods = (pubkey: string) => pushModal(SpaceMemberMethods, {url, pubkey})
+
+  let loading = $state(true)
+
+  onMount(async () => {
+    const error = await loadSpaceMethodAssignees(url)
+
+    if (error) {
+      pushToast({theme: "error", message: error})
+    }
+
+    loading = false
+  })
+</script>
+
+<Modal>
+  <ModalBody>
+    <ModalHeader>
+      <ModalTitle>Admins</ModalTitle>
+      <ModalSubtitle>on <RelayName {url} class="text-primary" /></ModalSubtitle>
+    </ModalHeader>
+    <div class="flex flex-col gap-2">
+      {#if $relay?.pubkey}
+        <div class="card flex items-center justify-between gap-2">
+          <div class="min-w-0 flex-1">
+            <Profile pubkey={$relay.pubkey} {url} />
+          </div>
+          <Badge>Owner</Badge>
+        </div>
+      {/if}
+      {#if loading}
+        <Spinner loading>Loading admins...</Spinner>
+      {:else if $assignees.length === 0}
+        <div class="card bg-surface p-4 text-sm opacity-70">
+          Nobody else has been given management permissions.
+        </div>
+      {:else}
+        {#each $assignees as { pubkey, methods } (pubkey)}
+          <div class="card flex flex-col gap-2">
+            <div class="flex items-center justify-between gap-2">
+              <div class="min-w-0 flex-1">
+                <Profile {pubkey} {url} />
+              </div>
+              {#if canEdit}
+                <Button
+                  class="button button-ghost button-sm button-square"
+                  aria-label="Edit permissions"
+                  onclick={() => editMethods(pubkey)}>
+                  <Icon size={4} icon={Pen} />
+                </Button>
+              {/if}
+            </div>
+            <div class="flex flex-wrap gap-1">
+              {#each methods as method (method)}
+                <Badge class="badge-sm font-normal">{displayManagementMethod(method)}</Badge>
+              {/each}
+            </div>
+          </div>
+        {/each}
+      {/if}
+    </div>
+  </ModalBody>
+  <ModalFooter>
+    <Button class="button button-link" onclick={back}>
+      <Icon icon={AltArrowLeft} />
+      Go back
+    </Button>
+  </ModalFooter>
+</Modal>
diff --git a/src/app/components/SpaceMemberMenu.svelte b/src/app/components/SpaceMemberMenu.svelte
index 9f5759bb..8746cac0 100644
--- a/src/app/components/SpaceMemberMenu.svelte
+++ b/src/app/components/SpaceMemberMenu.svelte
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 <script lang="ts">
   import {onMount} from "svelte"
   import Pen from "@assets/icons/pen.svg?dataurl"
+  import ShieldUser from "@assets/icons/shield-user.svg?dataurl"
   import UserMinus from "@assets/icons/user-minus.svg?dataurl"
   import MinusCircle from "@assets/icons/minus-circle.svg?dataurl"
   import Icon from "@lib/components/Icon.svelte"
   import Button from "@lib/components/Button.svelte"
   import Confirm from "@lib/components/Confirm.svelte"
+  import SpaceMemberMethods from "@app/components/SpaceMemberMethods.svelte"
   import SpaceMemberRoles from "@app/components/SpaceMemberRoles.svelte"
   import {profiles, relayManagement} from "@app/core"
   import {deriveSpaceSupportedMethods} from "@app/management"
@@ -26,11 +28,17 @@
   const canBan = $derived($supportedMethods.includes("banpubkey"))
   const canAssign = $derived($supportedMethods.includes("assignrole"))
   const canUnassign = $derived($supportedMethods.includes("unassignrole"))
+  const canEditMethods = $derived(
+    $supportedMethods.includes("listmethodassignees") &&
+      ["assignmethod", "unassignmethod"].some(method => $supportedMethods.includes(method)),
+  )
 
   const back = () => history.back()
 
   const editRoles = () => pushModal(SpaceMemberRoles, {url, pubkey})
 
+  const editMethods = () => pushModal(SpaceMemberMethods, {url, pubkey})
+
   const removeMember = () =>
     pushModal(Confirm, {
       title: "Remove Member",
@@ -79,6 +87,14 @@
       </Button>
     </li>
   {/if}
+  {#if canEditMethods}
+    <li>
+      <Button onclick={editMethods}>
+        <Icon icon={ShieldUser} />
+        Edit permissions
+      </Button>
+    </li>
+  {/if}
   {#if canUnallow}
     <li>
       <Button onclick={removeMember}>
diff --git a/src/app/components/SpaceMemberMethods.svelte b/src/app/components/SpaceMemberMethods.svelte
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..57b20641
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/app/components/SpaceMemberMethods.svelte
@@ -0,0 +1,163 @@
+<script lang="ts">
+  import {onMount} from "svelte"
+  import {get} from "svelte/store"
+  import {spec} from "@welshman/lib"
+  import AltArrowLeft from "@assets/icons/alt-arrow-left.svg?dataurl"
+  import Spinner from "@lib/components/Spinner.svelte"
+  import Button from "@lib/components/Button.svelte"
+  import Icon from "@lib/components/Icon.svelte"
+  import Modal from "@lib/components/Modal.svelte"
+  import ModalBody from "@lib/components/ModalBody.svelte"
+  import ModalHeader from "@lib/components/ModalHeader.svelte"
+  import ModalTitle from "@lib/components/ModalTitle.svelte"
+  import ModalSubtitle from "@lib/components/ModalSubtitle.svelte"
+  import ModalFooter from "@lib/components/ModalFooter.svelte"
+  import {profiles, relayManagement} from "@app/core"
+  import {
+    MANAGEMENT_METHOD_GROUPS,
+    deriveSpaceMethodAssignees,
+    deriveSpaceSupportedMethods,
+    loadSpaceMethodAssignees,
+  } from "@app/management"
+  import {pushToast} from "@app/toast"
+
+  type Props = {
+    url: string
+    pubkey: string
+  }
+
+  const {url, pubkey}: Props = $props()
+
+  const profileDisplay = $profiles.display(pubkey, [url]).$
+  const supportedMethods = deriveSpaceSupportedMethods(url)
+  const canAssign = $derived($supportedMethods.includes("assignmethod"))
+  const canUnassign = $derived($supportedMethods.includes("unassignmethod"))
+
+  // A relay can grant methods this client knows nothing about, and a list that left them out
+  // would revoke them on the next save.
+  const groups = $derived.by(() => {
+    const known = MANAGEMENT_METHOD_GROUPS.flatMap(group => group.methods.map(({method}) => method))
+    const extra = [...assigned].filter(method => !known.includes(method))
+
+    if (extra.length > 0) {
+      return [
+        ...MANAGEMENT_METHOD_GROUPS,
+        {label: "Other", methods: extra.map(method => ({method, label: method}))},
+      ]
+    }
+
+    return MANAGEMENT_METHOD_GROUPS
+  })
+
+  const back = () => history.back()
+
+  const toggle = (method: string) => {
+    const next = new Set(selected)
+
+    if (next.has(method)) {
+      next.delete(method)
+    } else {
+      next.add(method)
+    }
+
+    selected = next
+  }
+
+  const submit = async () => {
+    saving = true
+
+    try {
+      const management = $relayManagement.forUrl(url)
+
+      for (const method of selected) {
+        if (!assigned.has(method)) {
+          const {error} = await management.assignMethod(pubkey, method)
+
+          if (error) {
+            pushToast({theme: "error", message: error})
+            return
+          }
+        }
+      }
+
+      for (const method of assigned) {
+        if (!selected.has(method)) {
+          const {error} = await management.unassignMethod(pubkey, method)
+
+          if (error) {
+            pushToast({theme: "error", message: error})
+            return
+          }
+        }
+      }
+
+      await loadSpaceMethodAssignees(url)
+
+      pushToast({message: "Permissions updated!"})
+      back()
+    } finally {
+      saving = false
+    }
+  }
+
+  let assigned = $state(new Set<string>())
+  let selected = $state(new Set<string>())
+  let loading = $state(true)
+  let saving = $state(false)
+
+  onMount(async () => {
+    const error = await loadSpaceMethodAssignees(url)
+
+    if (error) {
+      pushToast({theme: "error", message: error})
+    }
+
+    assigned = new Set(get(deriveSpaceMethodAssignees(url)).find(spec({pubkey}))?.methods ?? [])
+    selected = new Set(assigned)
+    loading = false
+  })
+</script>
+
+<Modal>
+  <ModalBody>
+    <ModalHeader>
+      <ModalTitle>Edit Permissions</ModalTitle>
+      <ModalSubtitle>
+        Choose what <span class="text-primary">@{$profileDisplay}</span> can administer
+      </ModalSubtitle>
+    </ModalHeader>
+    {#if loading}
+      <Spinner loading>Loading permissions...</Spinner>
+    {:else}
+      <div class="flex flex-col gap-4">
+        {#each groups as group (group.label)}
+          <div class="flex flex-col gap-2">
+            <strong class="text-sm opacity-70">{group.label}</strong>
+            {#each group.methods as { method, label } (method)}
+              <label class="card card-sm flex cursor-pointer justify-between gap-3">
+                {label}
+                <input
+                  type="checkbox"
+                  class="checkbox"
+                  checked={selected.has(method)}
+                  disabled={selected.has(method) ? !canUnassign : !canAssign}
+                  onchange={() => toggle(method)} />
+              </label>
+            {/each}
+          </div>
+        {/each}
+      </div>
+    {/if}
+  </ModalBody>
+  <ModalFooter>
+    <Button class="button button-link" onclick={back}>
+      <Icon icon={AltArrowLeft} />
+      Go back
+    </Button>
+    {#if canAssign || canUnassign}
+      <Button class="button button-primary" onclick={submit} disabled={saving}>
+        <Spinner loading={saving}>Save changes</Spinner>
+      </Button>
+    {/if}
+  </ModalFooter>
+</Modal>
diff --git a/src/app/management.ts b/src/app/management.ts
index 3aecf092..1b151fcb 100644
--- a/src/app/management.ts
+++ b/src/app/management.ts
@@ -22,6 +22,93 @@ export const deriveSpaceBannedPubkeyItems = (url: string) => {
   return store
 }
 
+// NIP-86 has no way to ask a relay which methods it can hand out — `supportedmethods` answers for
+// the pubkey that signed the request — so the catalog of grantable methods is the client's own.
+export const MANAGEMENT_METHOD_GROUPS = [
+  {
+    label: "Members",
+    methods: [
+      {method: "allowpubkey", label: "Add members"},
+      {method: "unallowpubkey", label: "Remove members"},
+      {method: "listallowedpubkeys", label: "List members"},
+      {method: "banpubkey", label: "Ban members"},
+      {method: "unbanpubkey", label: "Unban members"},
+      {method: "listbannedpubkeys", label: "List banned members"},
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    label: "Content",
+    methods: [
+      {method: "banevent", label: "Delete content"},
+      {method: "allowevent", label: "Dismiss reports"},
+      {method: "listbannedevents", label: "List deleted content"},
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    label: "Roles",
+    methods: [
+      {method: "createrole", label: "Create roles"},
+      {method: "editrole", label: "Edit roles"},
+      {method: "deleterole", label: "Delete roles"},
+      {method: "assignrole", label: "Assign roles"},
+      {method: "unassignrole", label: "Unassign roles"},
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    label: "Invites",
+    methods: [
+      {method: "createclaim", label: "Create invites"},
+      {method: "deleteclaim", label: "Delete invites"},
+      {method: "listclaims", label: "List invites"},
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    label: "Space",
+    methods: [
+      {method: "changerelayname", label: "Change the name"},
+      {method: "changerelaydescription", label: "Change the description"},
+      {method: "changerelayicon", label: "Change the icon"},
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    label: "Admins",
+    methods: [
+      {method: "assignmethod", label: "Grant permissions"},
+      {method: "unassignmethod", label: "Revoke permissions"},
+      {method: "listmethodassignees", label: "List admins"},
+    ],
+  },
+]
+
+const methodLabels = new Map(
+  MANAGEMENT_METHOD_GROUPS.flatMap(group =>
+    group.methods.map(({method, label}): [string, string] => [method, label]),
+  ),
+)
+
+export const displayManagementMethod = (method: string) => methodLabels.get(method) ?? method
+
+export type MethodAssigneeItem = {
+  pubkey: string
+  methods: string[]
+}
+
+// One store per space rather than per user: the relay answers the same assignments to anyone
+// allowed to ask, and the admin list has to agree with the editor that changes it.
+export const deriveSpaceMethodAssignees = simpleCache(([url]: [url: string]) =>
+  writable<MethodAssigneeItem[]>([]),
+)
+
+export const loadSpaceMethodAssignees = async (url: string) => {
+  const {result, error} = await relayManagement.get().forUrl(url).listMethodAssignees()
+
+  if (result) {
+    deriveSpaceMethodAssignees(url).set(result)
+  }
+
+  return error
+}
+
 const deriveSupportedMethodsForPubkey = simpleCache(([, url]: [pubkey: string, url: string]) => {
   let checkedAt = 0
 
diff --git a/src/routes/spaces/[relay]/directory/+page.svelte b/src/routes/spaces/[relay]/directory/+page.svelte
index 33adeffa..580eb6ad 100644
--- a/src/routes/spaces/[relay]/directory/+page.svelte
+++ b/src/routes/spaces/[relay]/directory/+page.svelte
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
   import MenuDots from "@assets/icons/menu-dots.svg?dataurl"
   import MinusCircle from "@assets/icons/minus-circle.svg?dataurl"
   import Magnifier from "@assets/icons/magnifier.svg?dataurl"
+  import ShieldUser from "@assets/icons/shield-user.svg?dataurl"
   import {fly} from "@lib/transition"
   import Icon from "@lib/components/Icon.svelte"
   import Button from "@lib/components/Button.svelte"
@@ -14,6 +15,7 @@
   import SpaceBar from "@app/components/SpaceBar.svelte"
   import SpaceMember from "@app/components/SpaceMember.svelte"
   import SpaceInvite from "@app/components/SpaceInvite.svelte"
+  import SpaceAdmins from "@app/components/SpaceAdmins.svelte"
   import SpaceRoles from "@app/components/SpaceRoles.svelte"
   import SpaceMembersBanned from "@app/components/SpaceMembersBanned.svelte"
   import {deriveSpaceSupportedMethods} from "@app/management"
@@ -35,6 +37,7 @@
     ["createrole", "editrole", "deleterole"].some(method => $supportedMethods.includes(method)),
   )
   const canListBans = $derived($supportedMethods.includes("listbannedpubkeys"))
+  const canListAdmins = $derived($supportedMethods.includes("listmethodassignees"))
 
   // Each member with their resolved roles (sorted by order).
   const memberList = derived([members, memberRoles, roles], ([$members, $memberRoles, $roles]) => {
@@ -61,6 +64,11 @@
     pushModal(SpaceRoles, {url})
   }
 
+  const spaceAdmins = () => {
+    menuOpen = false
+    pushModal(SpaceAdmins, {url})
+  }
+
   const bannedMembers = () => {
     menuOpen = false
     pushModal(SpaceMembersBanned, {url})
@@ -110,7 +118,7 @@
       <Icon icon={AddCircle} />
       Invite people
     </Button>
-    {#if canManageRoles || canListBans}
+    {#if canManageRoles || canListBans || canListAdmins}
       <div class="relative">
         <Button
           class="button button-neutral button-sm button-square"
@@ -131,6 +139,14 @@
                   </Button>
                 </li>
               {/if}
+              {#if canListAdmins}
+                <li>
+                  <Button onclick={spaceAdmins}>
+                    <Icon icon={ShieldUser} />
+                    Admins
+                  </Button>
+                </li>
+              {/if}
               {#if canListBans}
                 <li>
                   <Button onclick={bannedMembers}>