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

# Introduction

> Asset management built for agents as much as people.

Artbucket keeps a brand's files and its rules in one place, and serves both to
whoever asks: a person in the app, a script with an API key, or an agent in
Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Figma.

Finding files is a solved problem. The hard part now is **authority**: which logo
is current, which photo is still licensed for paid social in Germany, what the
brand's actual rules are. No agent can infer that from pixels. It has to be
written down and served, and that is what Artbucket does.

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  <Card title="Quickstart" icon="rocket" href="/quickstart">
    Running on your machine in five minutes.
  </Card>

  <Card title="How it works" icon="diagram-project" href="/how-it-works">
    The API, the MCP server and the canon.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Install it" icon="server" href="/installation/docker-compose">
    Docker Compose, Docker, Fly, Coolify or a plain VPS.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Connect an agent" icon="robot" href="/developers/mcp">
    One URL, a consent screen, no pasted keys.
  </Card>
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## What makes it different

* **Renditions are pure functions of a URL.** `/a/{id}/w_1200,f_webp` is the
  asset at that size. No export step, no download button.
* **The web app is a client of the public API.** It has no private endpoints:
  anything it does, a script or an agent can do.
* **Content-addressed storage.** Upload the same bytes twice, get one asset.
* **Your metadata stays yours.** Title, credit and tags are written back into
  the file on download, so leaving costs nothing.
* **The brand as data.** Colors, logo rules, type scale and tone are records an
  agent can query, and the guidelines page is drawn from them.
* **A yes or no on a use.** `POST /api/v1/check` says whether an asset may run
  here, now, in this context, and what to use instead.

Artbucket is open source under the AGPL-3.0. Run it, change it, host it
yourself. The API is not stable until v1.0.