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# Documentation and knowledge tools

Discover, access, and get updates to Adyen documentation using AI and programmatic tools.

[View source](/development-resources/documentation-tools.md)

Adyen makes documentation accessible to developers as well as the software and AI tools they create. To support this, we have implemented features that help you index and discover our documentation, read plain text versions of the pages, and receive updates about Adyen products and APIs.

## Discover documentation

### llms.txt

To help large language models (LLMs) discover and index our documentation, we provide a `/llms.txt` file. This file, located at the root of our documentation site, contains a list of all documentation pages grouped by their product category. It follows the [proposed standard](https://llmstxt.org/) to help LLMs discover documentation. It is is similar to the `sitemap` file, but is specifically designed for consumption by AI and provides additional context.

This file allows you to easily get a list of all available documentation pages that you can then provide to your own custom AI models or tools, for example, to build a custom AI assistant that can answer questions about Adyen products.

You can access llms.txt at `https://docs.adyen.com/llms.txt`

### Sitemap

A sitemap is a file where you can get a list of all the pages on the Adyen documentation website. You can use this to programmatically get a full list of all available documentation pages. While similar to the `llms.txt` file, the sitemap is a more general-purpose tool that can be used for a wide range of applications, including:

* **Web scraping:** You can use the sitemap to build a web scraper that fetches all our documentation pages.
* **Search indexing:** If you are building a search engine, you can use the sitemap to index all our documentation pages.
* **Content discovery:** You can use the sitemap to discover new content on our documentation site.

You can access the sitemap at: `https://docs.adyen.com/sitemap`

## Access documentation

### OpenAPI Specification

The Adyen OpenAPI Specification repository on GitHub contains [OpenAPI specifications](https://www.openapis.org/) for every public API Adyen offers. These specifications are the single source of truth for our APIs and can be used to:

* **Generate client libraries:** You can use tools like [OpenAPI Generator](https://openapi-generator.tech/) to generate client libraries in your preferred programming language. Adyen generates [server-side libraries](https://docs.adyen.com/development-resources/libraries) using a similar technique.
* **Create Postman collections:** The repository also includes Postman collections that you can import to start testing our APIs right away. Adyen provides [Postman collections](https://github.com/Adyen/adyen-postman) for some of our APIs that are also based on the OpenAPI specifications.
* **Understand API functionality:** The specifications provide a detailed, machine-readable description of every endpoint, including parameters, request and response bodies, and headers.
* **Provide context to LLMs:** The specification files can be used as valuable context to code assistants when working with Adyen APIs, especially when paired with [Adyen MCP](/development-resources/mcp-server).

You can access the OpenAPI specifications at: `https://github.com/Adyen/adyen-openapi`

### Markdown pages

Most pages on our documentation site can be rendered as a raw markdown file by simply appending `.md` to the URL. This provides a clean, machine-readable version of the content, stripped of all the website's navigation and styling.

This feature is particularly useful for:

* **Feeding content into LLMs:** You can fetch the raw markdown content of any page and use it as context for your AI models.
* **Local development:** You can easily download and use our documentation in your local development environment.
* **Content analysis:** You can programmatically analyze our documentation content.

For example, if you are viewing the webhooks documentation at:\
`https://docs.adyen.com/development-resources/webhooks`

You can access the raw markdown version at:\
`https://docs.adyen.com/development-resources/webhooks.md`

### Full documentation mirror

Adyen provides a full documentation mirror as a compressed ZIP file. The mirror contains all documentation pages in plain markdown. Use it to access documentation offline. You can also provide the mirror to AI agents as context. If your AI agents need to frequently fetch individual markdown files over the internet, use the mirror instead. This reduces the number of network calls and improves performance.

You can use the documentation mirror to:

* **Develop locally:** Keep a full copy of the documentation for quick reference, without an internet connection.
* **Give context to AI agents:** Provide the full documentation set to code assistants, chatbots, or other AI tools. This works well in restricted or air gapped environments. AI agents can traverse file trees and locate the right resources from a local copy.
* **Analyze content in bulk:** Search, index, or analyze the full documentation set without network requests.

You can download the full documentation mirror: [adyen-docs-mirror.zip](/development-resources/documentation-tools/adyen-docs-mirror.zip)

## Get updates

### Release notes

The release notes are the best way to stay up-to-date with the latest changes to Adyen products and APIs. We publish release notes for all our products, including APIs, libraries, and plugins. The release notes are grouped by product area, so you can easily find the information you need.

We recommend that you regularly check the release notes for the products you use to stay informed about new features, bug fixes, and other changes.

You can find all release notes at: <https://docs.adyen.com/release-notes>

### RSS Feed

You can stay up to date with the latest changes by subscribing to our RSS feeds. RSS feeds provide a way to get updates from a website in a standardized, computer-readable format. You can use an RSS reader to subscribe to these feeds and get notified of new content.

For example, you can subscribe to the RSS feed for plugin release notes to get notified of new releases for our plugins.

* [Plugin release notes RSS feed](https://docs.adyen.com/plugins/release-notes.xml)

We also provide release notes for other product areas. Check the specific release notes pages for those products for more information.

## See also

* [Improving the developer experience with OpenAPI Specification](https://www.adyen.com/knowledge-hub/improving-the-developer-experience-with-openapi-specification)
* [How Adyen does AI](https://www.adyen.com/knowledge-hub/how-adyen-does-ai)
* [Building better applications with Adyen API Libraries](https://www.adyen.com/knowledge-hub/adyen-api-libraries)
* [Introducing the MCP server: A smarter way to build with Adyen](https://www.adyen.com/the-latest/introducing-the-mcp-server-a-smarter-way-to-build-with-adyen)
