> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://mintlify.com/mintlify/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# What is Mintlify?

> Mintlify is a knowledge platform for hosting information designed for people and AI.

Mintlify hosts your content as a website. Your content lives in a Git repository as MDX files, and Mintlify builds and deploys your site automatically when you push a change.

## The three parts of a Mintlify project

**Your repository** is the source of truth for your documentation. It contains an MDX file for every page and a `docs.json` file that configures your site's navigation, theme, and settings. You can use your own GitHub or GitLab repository, or let Mintlify create one for you during onboarding.

**The Mintlify dashboard** connects to your repository and lets you manage your site. Use it to monitor deployments, configure settings, manage your team, and edit content directly in the browser.

**Your site** powered by Mintlify. Mintlify builds your site from your repository and deploys it at a `.mintlify.app` URL by default. When you're ready, you can point a custom domain to your site.

```mermaid theme={null}
flowchart LR
    WE["Web editor"] --> Repo[("Git repository")]
    Local["Local editor"] --> Repo
    Repo -- "Webhook" --> Build["Mintlify build"]
    Build --> Site["Live site"]
```

## Editing content

There are two ways to edit your content, and you can switch between them freely.

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Web editor" icon="browser">
    Edit and publish pages in your browser. The editor commits changes back to your Git repository automatically.
  </Card>

  <Card title="CLI and local editor" icon="terminal">
    Clone your repository, run `mint dev` to preview your site locally, then push changes to deploy.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

Multiple team members can work in either workflow at the same time, using Git branches to manage parallel changes. Anyone who can push to your repository can update your content.

## AI features

Built-in AI features help people and AI find and understand your content, and help you maintain your content.

<Steps>
  <Step title="Assistant">
    The **assistant** lets your users ask questions and get cited answers from your content.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Agent">
    The **agent** helps your team create and maintain content by generating updates from scheduled workflows, pull requests merging in your feature repository, or Slack threads.
  </Step>
</Steps>

See [AI-native documentation](/ai-native) for an overview of all AI features.

## Next steps

<Card title="Quickstart" icon="rocket" horizontal href="/quickstart">
  Deploy your first documentation site in minutes.
</Card>