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Add clarification to clerk as IDP docs page #2082

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Expand Up @@ -12,9 +12,11 @@ Clerk can be configured as an OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (OIDC) provider to fa

You can use Clerk as an Identity Provider (IdP) if you want your users to authenticate to a third party site or a tool using their credentials from your application. **This is not the same as supporting an OAuth provider, such as Google, in your application. If you want your users to be able to sign in to your application with an OAuth provider, see the [dedicated guide](/docs/authentication/social-connections/oauth).**

## How it works
This feature only currently supports the initial authentication flow from your application to the third party site or tool. The OAuth token returned at the end of the flow is not a [Clerk session JWT](/docs/how-clerk-works/overview#session-token) and cannot be used to make authenticated requests from third-party applications to Clerk-protected API endpoints in your app. If you are interested in Clerk adding support for resource access via OAuth tokens, please [add your feedback to this feature request](https://feedback.clerk.com/roadmap/c05eb8be-ae4e-4b7c-ab1e-e0eaf6b4b38a).

Clerk is the OAuth 2.0 and OIDC provider for your application. The "client" is the third party site or tool that you want your users to authenticate to.
## Configure Clerk as an IdP

Clerk is the OAuth 2.0 and OIDC Identity Provider (IdP) for your application. The "client" is the third party site or tool that you want your users to authenticate to.

In order to make your Clerk instance operate as a provider, create an OAuth application in the Clerk Dashboard. Then, configure the client to work with your Clerk instance, using the necessary data from your Clerk OAuth application.

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