# Prosopia

:::caution[Alpha software]
Prosopia is in alpha and is offered as-is, with no guarantees. Expect
breaking changes, downtime, and data loss. The API, the profile format,
and anything you store here may change or disappear without notice. Use
it at your own risk, and keep your own copy of anything you care about.

:::

Prosopia is a hosted Researcher Profile (RP) service. It runs at
[prosopia.databio.org](https://prosopia.databio.org). Log in with ORCID,
claim or create your profile, edit it, and control who can see it.

Prosopia serves profiles that follow the [Researcher Profiles (RP) specification](https://github.com/databio/researcher-profiles), including the [Dynamic API](/researcher-profiles/rp-spec/dynamic-api.md).

## Features

- **Log in with ORCID.** You sign in with your ORCID iD, so your profile is tied to
  the identity you already use across the research world. No separate
  username or password to manage.
- **Claim your profile.** If a profile already exists with your ORCID iD, you
  can claim it just by logging in.
- **Self-service builds.** A new profile starts mostly empty. Fill it in
  yourself manually, or use your own AI to fetch your papers and write your expertise narrative.
- **Share your profile.** You decide who sees your profile, at what level. A granular system lets you control
  who sees what. Make it fully or partially public, share the in-depth components only with specific people or applications.
  Each application you connect gets its own access, which you can revoke anytime.
- **Use your profile.** Use the API to power agentic applications that allow you to inject personalized context
  to your AI-assisted analysis, development, and writing.

## Documentation map

- **Tutorial** — new to Prosopia? Start with [Getting started](/prosopia/getting-started.md)
  to log in, claim your profile, make an edit, and publish it.
- **Explanation** — want to understand how things work? See
  [Core concepts](/prosopia/concepts.md).
- **Integration** — building another site on Prosopia? See
  [Integrate your app](/prosopia/integrate.md) for authentication, identity, and the
  pull/push API.
- **How-to guides** — need to do a specific task? See
  [Claim a profile](/prosopia/how-to/claim-a-profile.md),
  [Create a profile](/prosopia/how-to/create-a-profile.md),
  [Share your profile](/prosopia/how-to/share-your-profile.md),
  [Share ownership](/prosopia/how-to/share-ownership.md), and
  [Build a profile](/prosopia/how-to/build-on-demand.md).
- **Reference** — looking up a fact? See the
  [API reference](/prosopia/reference/api.md).