# Identity

Accounts people bring with them. No user table, no passwords to store, no sign-up flow to build.

## What it enables

- One account for every Minca app, opened with a passkey or a password
- Apps and agents get a key of their own: scoped, time-limited and revocable
- People find each other by username, like leif@minca.social
- A new device restores everything from a recovery code, with no server to ask

## In this section

- [Signing in](https://minca.dev/identity/sign-in.md): Most apps connect to the person's account home (Building an app). This page is for a page that keeps the account itself: an account home, or an app that signs people in on its own. createMincaAuth…
- [Usernames](https://minca.dev/identity/usernames.md): A username, like leif@minca.social, is a name at a domain that leads to an inbox code. It lets someone find you by a name they can say aloud. This page shows how to look one up and claim one, and…