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Announcing the new Illinois Chat documentation

Welcome to the new home of the Illinois Chat documentation — built with Material for MkDocs, versioned alongside the code, and published automatically from the monorepo.

What's here

  • Quickstart — from sign-in to a working, cited assistant in minutes.
  • Concepts — projects, documents, retrieval methods, and LLM providers.
  • Guides — uploading materials, web crawling, sharing, custom tools, Canvas, analytics, and bulk export.
  • API Reference — chat, retrieval, ingest, and export endpoints with runnable examples.
  • Self-Hosting — the full Docker Compose stack, environment variables, and system architecture.
  • CropWizard — the flagship agricultural assistant built on the platform.

Release notes live here too

This blog is where we'll publish release announcements going forward. Subscribe by watching releases on GitHub, and check the Releases category here for details on what shipped.

Contributing

Spotted something wrong or missing? Every page has an edit button that takes you straight to the source file on GitHub — pull requests are very welcome. Docs changes merged to main deploy automatically via GitHub Actions and GitHub Pages.

How to write a release post

Add a file under docs/blog/posts/ named YYYY-MM-DD-short-slug.md:

---
date: 2026-08-15
categories:
  - Releases
authors:
  - caii
---

# vX.Y.Z — one-line summary

A paragraph summarizing the release.

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## Highlights
- ...

## Breaking changes
- ...

Everything above the <!-- more --> marker appears in the blog index.