First minute

#Install

One line, pasted into a terminal on the machine you want to reach. The code in it is single-use and expires in ten minutes.

#What is open on first boot↑ Why · Alex reaches the laptop at home from a café Alex is in the laptop's terminal within the minute, with nothing to sign up for.

No empty desktop, no tour.

#First boot opens a welcome note, Add a machine, and Your devicesproof

The note is a real file you can edit, and says it lives in this browser only. Add a machine is the line above; run it and the machine's terminal opens in the next pane. Your devices lists each with what it may do, and a QR code to open on a phone.

#There is no sign-up formproof

#Your name, and keeping it↑ Why · Alex reaches the laptop at home from a café Alex keeps the account by picking a name, once there's something worth keeping.↑ Why · Alex loses a phone, and it opens nothing A name never reused means a stale key in some old browser can't be handed to someone else.

You start on a random name of your own, like brave-otter-42; when there is something worth keeping, you pick a name and add a passkey in one step.

#A name is never reusedproof

A stale key may sit in some browser's storage for that name, and a new owner's page would run there.

#Renaming moves the account like pairing a deviceproof

A new name is a new origin, whose storage starts empty.

#The passkey comes with the nameproof

A passkey is bound to its domain, so one made on the random name would die at the rename.

#Account creation is rate-limitedproof

Free names attract phishing.