Practical guides for managing your Sentient Identity and the Node Identities it owns.
Pro Tip
For the conceptual background — what a Sentient is, what a Node is, how they're layered, what happens during a switch — read Identity Switching first. The guides below are short, task-focused recipes.
| Guide | What it covers |
|---|---|
| First Boot | What happens the first time you launch the app — no wizard, what got auto-created on your behalf, and the optional Shadow → Full upgrade prompt |
| Switch Sentient | Change the active human-operator identity (work ↔ personal, or recover from a backup) |
| Switch Node | Change which Node Personality you're operating (one Agent to another, Agent to Remote, etc.) |
| Migrating an Identity | Move a Sentient identity from one device to another, or recover from a BIP39 phrase |