# Documentation

> Documentation files for Large Language Models

## Documentation

- [Quick Start](/quickstart.md): Get Cortex running in 5 minutes with Docker
- [LLM Deployment Templates](/llm-templates.md): Copy-paste model stacks for Venice, OpenRouter, and self-hosted GPUs
- [Introduction](/introduction.md): Welcome to the Cortex documentation - an agentic knowledge base powered by AI and GraphRAG
- [Configuration](/configuration.md): Complete reference for all 160+ environment variables in Cortex
- [Changelog](/changelog.md): A chronological log of all notable changes, improvements, and fixes to Cortex.
- [Security](/guides/security.md): Security features and best practices for Cortex
- [Image Analysis](/guides/image-analysis.md): Extract and analyze images from documents using vision models
- [Image Analysis - Advanced](/guides/image-analysis-advanced.md): Technical details and advanced configuration for image analysis
- [Deployment](/guides/deployment.md): Deploy Cortex to production with Docker and Coolify
- [Data Import/Export](/guides/data-transfer.md): Export and import your entire Cortex including documents, knowledge graph, and embeddings
- [Authentication](/guides/authentication.md): Secure your Cortex API with API key authentication
- [x402 Payments](/features/x402-payments.md): Monetize your knowledge base with pay-per-query micropayments — agents pay per retrieval query via the open x402 standard, with any spec-compliant facilitator
- [Web Import (MDHarvest powered by Crawl4ai)](/features/web-import.md): Harvest web pages into clean markdown and ingest them into your knowledge graph, using a self-hosted or shared crawl4ai service
- [Agent Skills](/features/skills.md): Extend Deep Research and Chat with external capabilities from the AgentSkills ecosystem
- [Search](/features/search.md): Hybrid search combining vector similarity, keyword matching, and graph traversal
- [Knowledge Graph](/features/knowledge-graph.md): AI-powered entity extraction, relationships, and graph visualization
- [Git Integration](/features/git-integration.md): Connect GitHub, GitLab, and Gitea repositories as a living knowledge source — ingest files and wikis into the graph, and let the agent open pull requests
- [Document Upload](/features/document-upload.md): Upload and process documents into the Cortex knowledge base
- [Cortex Chat](/features/cortex-chat.md): A standalone, multi-tenant chat frontend for any Cortex instance — provisioned users and groups, scoped collection access, streaming Ask AI with Deep Research and citations, an admin library console, and runtime branding
- [Communities](/features/communities.md): Automatic detection of document clusters and theme summarization
- [Collections](/features/collections.md): Organize documents into collections with scoped graphs and search
- [Ask AI](/features/ask-ai.md): AI-powered question answering with RAG streaming, agentic reasoning, and real-time SSE events
- [Apps](/features/apps.md): Install web apps into your Cortex instance — sandboxed, served under /apps/, with least-privilege API access and no keys in the browser
- [Python Examples](/examples/python.md): Complete Python code examples for the Cortex API
- [Integration Examples](/examples/integration.md): Integrate Cortex with popular frameworks, tools, and platforms
- [cURL Examples](/examples/curl.md): Command-line examples using cURL for all Cortex API operations