> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://cortex-foundation-add13747-droid-1a2462c9-cor-444-sanitize.mintlify.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Guides for Chat, Code, Bot, Design, and the CLI

> Product docs for the Cortex app — how to chat, ship code, run bots, design with your team, and drive Code from a terminal. Platform API lives elsewhere.

<code>docs.cortex.foundation</code>

Product docs for the Cortex app — how to chat, ship code, run bots, design with your team, and drive Code from a terminal. One account, one domain. **Platform API lives elsewhere.**

<Frame caption="Cortex Chat home — Chat, Code, and Bot in the sidebar; recent conversations; the composer with its model chip; Code, Research, Docs, and Agents as starting points.">
  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/cortex-foundation-add13747-droid-1a2462c9-cor-444-sanitize/f_vF1T0UHRUAu9OO/images/product/chat-home-recents.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=f_vF1T0UHRUAu9OO&q=85&s=a2af0896677c97f27031e976fb761571" alt="Cortex Chat home with recent conversations in the sidebar and the composer ready" width="1280" height="800" data-path="images/product/chat-home-recents.png" />
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<p className="ink-cta-row">
  <a className="ink-btn" href="/getting-started/quickstart">Quickstart</a>
  <a className="ink-btn ink-btn-quiet" href="/getting-started/downloads">Download Cortex</a>
</p>

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  <Card title="Getting started" img="https://mintcdn.com/cortex-foundation-add13747-droid-1a2462c9-cor-444-sanitize/f_vF1T0UHRUAu9OO/images/banners/getting-started.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=f_vF1T0UHRUAu9OO&q=85&s=925977016ea80e27fc91aa75d9a5224a" href="/getting-started/quickstart" width="1280" height="853" data-path="images/banners/getting-started.png">
    A first chat as a guest, then sign in for Code, Bot, and Design. Accounts, plans, settings.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Chat" img="https://mintcdn.com/cortex-foundation-add13747-droid-1a2462c9-cor-444-sanitize/f_vF1T0UHRUAu9OO/images/banners/chat.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=f_vF1T0UHRUAu9OO&q=85&s=58d04c68b3d158056b0f237ec98ffb66" href="/chat" width="1280" height="853" data-path="images/banners/chat.png">
    Projects, Library, plans, models, tools, Deep Research, images, and how a turn runs.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Code" img="https://mintcdn.com/cortex-foundation-add13747-droid-1a2462c9-cor-444-sanitize/f_vF1T0UHRUAu9OO/images/banners/code.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=f_vF1T0UHRUAu9OO&q=85&s=1e561cc88e15c3f6a725d0e1524df165" href="/code" width="1280" height="853" data-path="images/banners/code.png">
    A coding agent in an isolated Cloud guest — sessions, Ask / Plan / Agent, GitHub, review.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Bot" img="https://mintcdn.com/cortex-foundation-add13747-droid-1a2462c9-cor-444-sanitize/f_vF1T0UHRUAu9OO/images/banners/bot.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=f_vF1T0UHRUAu9OO&q=85&s=2d9bcb497f39c8206286e7aecd1fef44" href="/bot" width="1280" height="853" data-path="images/banners/bot.png">
    Always-on agents with their own computer, approvals, routines, skills, and the Bot desktop app.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Design" img="https://mintcdn.com/cortex-foundation-add13747-droid-1a2462c9-cor-444-sanitize/f_vF1T0UHRUAu9OO/images/banners/design.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=f_vF1T0UHRUAu9OO&q=85&s=bf63d2f35f3e3a1dd1ef8b77817fa272" href="/design" width="1280" height="853" data-path="images/banners/design.png">
    Persistable canvases hosted from Chat or Code, edited in the Design desktop app.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Security" img="https://mintcdn.com/cortex-foundation-add13747-droid-1a2462c9-cor-444-sanitize/f_vF1T0UHRUAu9OO/images/banners/security.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=f_vF1T0UHRUAu9OO&q=85&s=68c8835268b18d645c0c774a937dc66b" href="/security/overview" width="1280" height="853" data-path="images/banners/security.png">
    What Cortex stores, cookies and consent, where code runs, export and deletion.
  </Card>
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  <Card title="CLI" icon="terminal" href="/cli">
    Cortex Code in the terminal — install, sign in, the TUI, slash commands, `/goal`, headless runs.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Changelog" icon="history" href="/changelog">
    What shipped in Chat, Code, Bot, Design, and the CLI — dated, with the surface it changed.
  </Card>

  <Card title="API" icon="braces" href="/api/overview">
    The problem-document format and the public catalog of error codes.
  </Card>

  <Card title="System status" icon="activity" href="/status">
    Live availability for Web, API, Chat, Code, and Bot — incidents and maintenance.
  </Card>
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<Note>
  The inference **Platform API** (a public model-inference API) is not documented on this site and is not implemented in this repository. See [Coming soon](/platform).
</Note>