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title: Welcome to Radiant Docs
description: Find the right place to start based on how you want to edit, configure, and publish docs.
---

**Radiant Docs** gives your team a few ways to work: edit visually in the\
dashboard, ask the writing agent for help, edit Markdown source directly, or use\
the CLI for local review. After publishing, Knowledge Assistant can help readers find\
answers from your docs and approved context.

Use this page as a map of the docs. Start with the path that matches how you want to make your next change.

## Start here

New to Radiant? These pages explain the core model and help you choose the right workflow before you go deeper.

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  <Column>
    <Card title="How Radiant Docs works" href="/getting-started/how-radiant-docs-works" cover={{ icon: "lucide:workflow", glass: true, patternSeed: "5" }}>
      Understand how authoring, publishing, and AI answers fit together.
    </Card>
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    <Card title="Quickstart" href="/getting-started/quickstart" cover={{ icon: "lucide:rocket", glass: true, patternSeed: "4" }}>
      Make your first docs change and see it go live.
    </Card>
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    <Card title="Workflows" href="/getting-started/workflows" cover={{ icon: "lucide:route", glass: true }}>
      Compare dashboard editing, the writing agent, source editing, and the CLI.
    </Card>
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    <Card title="Content model" href="/getting-started/content-model" cover={{ icon: "lucide:blocks", glass: true }}>
      See how `docs.json`, MDX pages, media, and API files become a docs site.
    </Card>
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## Create and edit without code

Use these workflows when you want to create, revise, organize, and publish docs from the browser.

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  <Column>
    <Card title="Edit in the dashboard" href="/edit-in-dashboard/visual-editor" cover={{ icon: "lucide:file-pen", glass: true }}>
      Use the visual editor to update pages, manage navigation, adjust settings, and publish without editing files locally.
    </Card>
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    <Card title="Write with the agent" href="/write-with-agent/ask-for-edits" cover={{ icon: "lucide:sparkles", glass: true }}>
      Ask Radiant to draft, revise, restructure, or clean up docs, then review the changed files before publishing.
    </Card>
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## Work from source files

Use these docs when you want direct file control, local preview, or Git-based review.

<Card title="Edit Markdown" href="/edit-markdown/format-text" cover={{ icon: "simple-icons:mdx", glass: true }}>
  Learn the source syntax for text, code, images, lists, tables, and Radiant components.
</Card>

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    <Card title="Configure with docs.json" href="/configure-with-docs-json/overview" cover={{ icon: "lucide:file-json-2", glass: true, patternSeed: "1" }}>
      Configure navigation, branding, navbar links, footer links, and API reference sources from the docs configuration file.
    </Card>
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    <Card title="Use the CLI" href="/getting-started/use-the-cli" cover={{ icon: "lucide:terminal", glass: true, patternSeed: "2" }}>
      Start a local preview and review source-file changes before pushing them.
    </Card>
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## Publish, operate, and answer

When a draft is ready, publish it, watch the deployment, connect the domain readers will use, and make the docs answerable through Knowledge Assistant.

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    <Card title="Knowledge Assistant" href="/ask-ai/overview" cover={{ icon: "lucide:message-circle-question-mark", glass: true }}>
      Give readers cited answers from your published docs and approved context.
    </Card>
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    <Card title="Publish and manage" href="/publish-and-manage/deployments" cover={{ icon: "lucide:cloud-upload", glass: true }}>
      Follow deployments, understand publish status, and connect a custom domain.
    </Card>
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## FAQ

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  <Accordion title="What is Radiant Docs?">
    Radiant Docs helps teams create, edit, and publish documentation from one workflow. You can work in the dashboard, ask the writing agent for help, or edit source files directly. After publishing, Knowledge Assistant can answer reader questions from your docs and approved context.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Where should I start?">
    Start with the Quickstart if you want to make your first change. Read Workflows when you want to compare dashboard editing, agent-assisted writing, and developer workflows.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Can non-technical teammates edit docs?">
    Yes. The dashboard editor is designed for browser-based editing, navigation, settings, and publishing. The writing agent can help draft, revise, and reorganize content from plain-language instructions.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Can developers keep using Git and local tools?">
    Yes. Developers can edit Markdown source files, configure docs from `docs.json`, preview locally with the CLI, and review changes through Git.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="How do changes go live?">
    Publish dashboard and agent-assisted changes when the draft is ready. For source-file workflows, push the change through the connected repository. Radiant builds and deploys the updated docs site.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="What is Knowledge Assistant?">
    Knowledge Assistant is the reader-facing assistant on your published docs site. It uses published docs, generated API reference pages, and approved context sources to answer questions with links back to source material.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>