AnythingLLM Docs: The Official Documentation Site for AnythingLLM

What This Repository Is

The anythingllm-docs repository holds the source for the official AnythingLLM documentation site published at docs.anythingllm.com. AnythingLLM is a product of Mintplex Labs Inc. The repository contains only the documentation site, not the AnythingLLM application code.

The pages/ directory defines the documentation structure. It has seven content sections: agent (agent-related features), api (the AnythingLLM API reference), changelog (version history), cloud (cloud-hosted deployment), features, installation, and setup. This structure gives a clear picture of the areas the documentation covers: installing the application, configuring it after installation, using its features, deploying it in the cloud, interacting with it through an API, and using agents.

The site is hosted publicly. Contributing to the documentation is the most common use of this repository, since the documentation is MIT licensed and accepts pull requests.

Technology: Nextra on Next.js 14

The documentation site is built with Nextra 2.13.4, a documentation framework built on top of Next.js. The content pages are MDX files: Markdown with embedded React components. The site uses nextra-theme-docs, the standard Nextra documentation theme, which provides navigation, search, and page layout automatically.

The JavaScript dependencies relevant to the docs site are Next.js 14, Nextra, nextra-theme-docs, React 18, and @vercel/og for Open Graph image generation. The dev dependency list includes image compression tooling (imagemin-mozjpeg and imagemin-pngquant) and an @svgr/webpack integration for SVG imports.

The package.json defines an img script for compressing images in the public/ directory:

yarn img

This runs scripts/compress-images.mjs to reduce PNG and JPEG file sizes before committing new screenshots or diagrams.

Running the Docs Site Locally

The README gives a three-step local setup:

git clone https://github.com/Mintplex-Labs/anythingllm-docs.git

Install dependencies with yarn:

yarn

Start the development server:

yarn dev

The development server runs on port 3333 (set explicitly in the dev script in package.json). Open http://localhost:3333 to view the site locally. Changes to pages/ and components/ reload automatically during development.

The site uses yarn as the package manager; npm is not configured for this project. The .nvmrc file in the repository pins a specific Node.js version, which can be activated with nvm use before running the install step.

Documentation Structure: What Each Section Covers

The pages/ directory has a flat section structure. The installation/ section covers how to get AnythingLLM running. The setup/ section covers initial configuration after installation. The features/ section documents individual product features. The agent/ section covers AnythingLLM's agent capabilities. The api/ section covers the AnythingLLM API. The cloud/ section covers cloud-hosted deployment. The changelog/ section tracks changes across versions.

The public/ directory stores images categorised by section: anythingllm-setup/, cloud/, faq/, features/, getting-started/, guides/, home/, legal/, product/, and thumbnails/. The image compression script in scripts/ operates on these files.

A theme.config.tsx file in the root configures the Nextra documentation theme, including navigation, logo, and site metadata for the hosted site.

Contributing: Issues and Pull Requests

The README describes a concise contribution process: open an issue, then open a pull request with a branch named in the format issue-number-short-name. The pull_request_template.md file in the root provides a standard pull request template for contributors.

The .vscode/ directory includes editor configuration for the documentation writing workflow. The .prettierrc configuration file enforces code style, and the lint script runs Prettier over the pages directory:

yarn lint

The Prettier lint step writes formatting changes in place. Running it before committing ensures consistent MDX formatting across contributed pages.

The @ShadowArcanist GitHub account is credited in the README for the migration of the documentation site to Next.js.

Branch names follow the format issue-number-short-name, such as 42-update-installation-guide. This convention ties each pull request back to a specific GitHub issue, making it straightforward to trace documentation changes to the reported problem or feature request they address. The @ShadowArcanist contributor is credited in the README for migrating the documentation site from its previous framework to Next.js.

The .nvmrc file in the repository specifies a tested Node.js version. Running nvm use before installing dependencies ensures that the build environment matches what other contributors use, which reduces the chance of package resolution failures from Node.js version differences.

Limitations and Scope of the Repository

This repository is exclusively the documentation site. Changes to AnythingLLM's application features, API endpoints, or agent behaviour are made in a separate application repository; this repository only documents them. Outdated documentation does not necessarily reflect an issue with the application.

The site uses Nextra 2.x pinned at 2.13.4 and Next.js 14.2.x. Nextra 3.x introduced breaking changes to MDX handling and component APIs, so migrating the site to Nextra 3 would require updating all existing pages. The resolutions field in package.json pins next-mdx-remote at ^6.0.0 to manage a dependency conflict, indicating that some dependency combinations in this version range require careful pinning.

A comparable alternative documentation site pattern is Docusaurus (Meta), which is also MDX-based and open source but uses a different directory structure and plugin system. Nextra's advantage in this context is its tight Next.js integration and the lighter configuration overhead for a documentation-only site with no custom application pages. Switching between Nextra and Docusaurus would require converting all MDX pages to match the target framework's frontmatter conventions and component imports.

The last push to this repository was on 2026-09-23. The project is MIT licensed.

The last push to this repository was on 2026-09-23. The project is MIT licensed. Contributors retain no copyright beyond the terms of the MIT licence, which permits any downstream use including commercial deployment of a modified documentation site.

Editorial conclusion

This repository is the right place to contribute documentation improvements to AnythingLLM, whether that means fixing an error in an existing page, adding a guide for a new feature, or extending the API reference. The codebase is simple to run locally with yarn dev and the pages are MDX files editable in any text editor. Before opening a pull request, run yarn dev locally at http://localhost:3333 to confirm that the changed page renders without errors.

Frequently asked questions

Official sources

1. Issues
2. License: MIT
3. Mintplex-Labs/anythingllm-docs on GitHub
4. Project website
5. README