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title: Exploring the Docs
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modified: 2026-06-09
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tags:
- tutorials
- getting-started
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# Exploring the Documentation
> **Audiences:** All (Owner, AI, Reader, Contributor, Replicator)
This guide explains how the BlumeOps documentation is organized and how to find what you need.
## Documentation Structure
The docs follow the [Diataxis ](https://diataxis.fr/ ) framework:
| Section | Purpose | When to Use |
|---------|---------|-------------|
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| * * [Tutorials ](/tutorials/ )** | Learning-oriented | "I'm new and want to understand" |
| * * [Reference ](/reference/ )** | Information-oriented | "I need specific technical details" |
| * * [How-to ](/how-to/ )** | Task-oriented | "I need to do X" |
| * * [Explanation ](/explanation/ )** | Understanding-oriented | "I want to understand why" |
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## Quick Paths by Audience
### For Erich (Owner)
You probably want quick access to operational details:
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- [How-to ](/how-to/ ) guides for common operations (deploy, troubleshoot, update ACLs)
- [Reference ](/reference/ ) has service URLs, commands, and config locations
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- [[ai-assistance-guide]] explains how to work effectively with AI agents
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### For AI Agents
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Context for effective assistance:
- Read [[ai-assistance-guide]] for operational conventions
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- [Reference ](/reference/ ) has the technical specifics you'll need
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- The repo's `AGENTS.md` has critical rules (especially the kubectl context requirement)
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### For External Readers
Understanding what this is:
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- [Explanation ](/explanation/ ) covers the "why" behind design decisions
- [Reference ](/reference/ ) shows what's actually running
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- Browse service pages to see specific implementations
### For Contributors
Getting started with changes:
- [[contributing]] walks through the workflow
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- [How-to ](/how-to/ ) guides for specific tasks (deploy services, add roles)
- [Reference ](/reference/ ) tells you where things live
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### For Replicators
Replicators are people who want to build their own similar homelab GitOps setup, using BlumeOps as inspiration.
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- [[replicating-blumeops]] provides the overview, with linked tutorials that go deep on individual components
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- [Explanation ](/explanation/ ) covers architecture and design rationale
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- Reference pages show specific configuration choices
## Using Wiki Links
Documentation uses `[[wiki-links]]` for cross-references:
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- `[[service-name]]` links by filename stem (must be unambiguous)
- `[[path/to/file]]` links by path from docs root (for disambiguation)
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- `[[page|Display Text]]` customizes the link text
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When reading on the web (docs.eblu.me), these render as clickable links. The backlinks panel shows what references each page.
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Prek hooks validate that all wiki-links resolve to existing files and flag ambiguous bare-name links.
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## AI Context Priming
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AI agents prime themselves by searching `docs/` for cards relevant to the task at hand and following wiki-links from there. (The retired `ai-docs` mise task used to concatenate every doc for this purpose, but the corpus outgrew a context window.) For deep codebase questions, `mise run ai-sources` concatenates all non-doc source files.
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## Related
- [[update-documentation]] - How to publish doc changes
- [[review-documentation]] - Periodic doc review process