# Vythos Docs > How to put your agency’s rules where your AI tools can reach them — and keep them current. Vythos keeps an agency’s rules as the documents it already has — a rate card in Google Drive, a tone-of-voice page in Notion — and hands the current version to the team and to AI tools over MCP. Every page below is also available as Markdown at the same URL plus `.md`; the whole site is at https://doc.vythos.tech/llms-full.txt. ## Getting started - [What Vythos is](https://doc.vythos.tech/getting-started/what-is-vythos.md): Vythos keeps your agency's rules as the documents you already have, follows those documents when they change, and hands the current version to your team and their AI tools. - [Quickstart](https://doc.vythos.tech/getting-started/quickstart.md): Create a workspace, add your first rules from documents you already have, ask a question, and connect an AI tool — in about fifteen minutes. - [Which documents to add first](https://doc.vythos.tech/getting-started/which-documents-first.md): A short list of the documents worth making rules on day one, what to leave in memory, and how to tell the difference. ## Core concepts - [The Playbook](https://doc.vythos.tech/concepts/playbook.md): The Playbook is the set of documents your agency has said its work must respect — organised by category, scoped by client, and versioned. - [A rule is a document](https://doc.vythos.tech/concepts/rules-and-documents.md): How Vythos ties a rule to the file it came from, what it keeps, and why nothing becomes a rule on its own. - [Categories](https://doc.vythos.tech/concepts/categories.md): The seven kinds of rule in a Vythos Playbook, what belongs in each, and how they rank when two rules touch the same question. - [Clients and scope](https://doc.vythos.tech/concepts/clients.md): How a client's own rules override your house defaults, how Vythos knows which client a piece of work is for, and what it tells a tool when a client rule is withheld. - [Values](https://doc.vythos.tech/concepts/values.md): The figures Vythos reads out of a rule — day rates, payment terms, banned words — what confirming them does, and which of them a draft check can test. - [Versions and history](https://doc.vythos.tech/concepts/versions.md): When a rule gets a new version, what happens to the old one, and why a draft is always judged against the version its author was given. - [Memory](https://doc.vythos.tech/concepts/memory.md): Everything you connect becomes searchable memory — private to each person, never governing, and the thing that lets Ask answer questions no rule covers. ## Using Vythos - [Add a rule](https://doc.vythos.tech/using-vythos/add-a-rule.md): Add a document to your Playbook by pasting its link or picking it from a connected source, and what each field on the card means. - [Update a rule](https://doc.vythos.tech/using-vythos/update-a-rule.md): Edit the document and the rule follows. What updates automatically, what needs a tick, and how long it takes. - [Retire a rule](https://doc.vythos.tech/using-vythos/retire-a-rule.md): How to stand a rule down, what stops happening immediately, and what is kept. - [When a file can't be read](https://doc.vythos.tech/using-vythos/unreadable-files.md): What the orange note on a rule means, what still works, and the three ways out. - [Ask](https://doc.vythos.tech/using-vythos/ask.md): Ask questions about your own rules and documents, and know what the answer is allowed to be based on. - [Clients](https://doc.vythos.tech/using-vythos/clients.md): Add a client, give them rules that override your defaults, and limit who on your team can see them. - [Your team and their access](https://doc.vythos.tech/using-vythos/team-and-access.md): Invite colleagues and freelancers, and decide which kinds of rule reach them — in Vythos and in their own AI tools. - [Plans and credits](https://doc.vythos.tech/using-vythos/plans-and-credits.md): What each plan includes, what a credit is, and what happens when a month's credits run out. ## Sources - [Sources overview](https://doc.vythos.tech/sources/overview.md): What connecting a source does, which sources rules can come from, and how often each is re-read. - [Google Drive](https://doc.vythos.tech/sources/google-drive.md): Connect Drive to hold the documents behind your rules and to make your working files searchable. - [Notion](https://doc.vythos.tech/sources/notion.md): Connect Notion so pages your team writes in can be searched, and so a page can be a rule that follows its edits. - [Uploads](https://doc.vythos.tech/sources/uploads.md): Put files from your computer into Vythos — a folder you keep in step, or a single document you want to make a rule. - [Website](https://doc.vythos.tech/sources/website.md): Add your own site's pages to memory, so answers can draw on how you describe your services publicly. - [GitHub](https://doc.vythos.tech/sources/github.md): Bring a repository's documentation and issue history into memory — useful for agencies that build as well as design. - [Gmail](https://doc.vythos.tech/sources/gmail.md): Sync a Gmail label into memory so what was agreed in email is searchable — without pulling in your whole inbox. ## AI tools - [AI tools overview](https://doc.vythos.tech/ai-tools/overview.md): What happens when you connect Claude, Cursor or your own agent to Vythos — and what changes about the work they produce. - [Connect a tool](https://doc.vythos.tech/ai-tools/connect.md): Step-by-step setup for Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf and any other MCP client. - [What your agent receives](https://doc.vythos.tech/ai-tools/what-agents-receive.md): The shape of a context pack — which rules are sent, in what order, what is deliberately left out, and what the pack says about its own gaps. - [The four tools](https://doc.vythos.tech/ai-tools/tools.md): get_context, check_draft, search_memory and log_outcome — what each one does, what it takes, and what it returns. - [Keys](https://doc.vythos.tech/ai-tools/keys.md): Create, use and revoke the keys your AI tools connect with — and what a key can and can't reach. ## Security and data - [How Vythos is secured](https://doc.vythos.tech/security/overview.md): Isolation between workspaces, how connector access is stored, what reaches a model, and who can see what inside your own team. - [Your data](https://doc.vythos.tech/security/your-data.md): What Vythos holds on your behalf, how to change or remove it, and what happens when you leave. ## Reference - [File formats](https://doc.vythos.tech/reference/file-formats.md): Exactly which file types Vythos reads, which it refuses by name, and how Google's own formats are handled. - [These docs, for AI agents](https://doc.vythos.tech/reference/for-ai-agents.md): Every page of this documentation is available as plain Markdown, with an index at /llms.txt and the whole site in one file at /llms-full.txt. - [Limits and timings](https://doc.vythos.tech/reference/limits.md): How often things are checked, how big things can be, and how long things last. - [Troubleshooting](https://doc.vythos.tech/reference/troubleshooting.md): The problems people actually hit, and what to do about each. - [Glossary](https://doc.vythos.tech/reference/glossary.md): The words Vythos uses, and exactly what each one means here.