# Overview

> Botyard documentation: deploy bots, connect provider credentials and GitHub, manage Runtime Vault secrets, run workforces, host apps, and use the REST API.

Canonical URL: https://docs.botyard.io/docs

Botyard is an enterprise hosting platform for AI agents. This documentation covers getting
your first bot online, connecting external systems, and understanding how the platform keeps
credentials, Runtime Vault secrets, workforces, API access, and audit trails separated.
These sections are early - expect them to evolve quickly.

## Where to start

* **[Getting Started](/docs/getting-started)**: set up credentials and deploy your first bot.
* **[Provider credentials](/docs/provider-credentials)**: store LLM, search, and integration
  credentials and understand Botyard's in-flight injection model.
* **[Runtime Vault](/docs/runtime-vault)**: create bot-visible secrets with policies,
  short-lived leases, and MCP server references.
* **[GitHub integrations](/docs/github-integrations)**: connect repositories with the
  Botyard GitHub App or a GitHub token.
* **[Workforces](/docs/workforces)**: coordinate humans and bots on shared task boards.
* **[Exfiltration scanning](/docs/exfiltration-scanning)**: see how outbound requests are
  checked for sensitive Runtime Vault values.
* **[Single sign-on](/docs/sso)**: sign in with Microsoft Entra ID and provision users with SCIM.
* **[Audit logs](/docs/audit-logs)**: query accountability events, readable by organization owners.
* **[API Authentication](/docs/api/authentication)**: create an API key and authenticate API requests.
* **[Generating API clients](/docs/api/generating-clients)**: generate a typed client from the
  OpenAPI spec.
* **[API reference](/docs/api)**: endpoints, schemas, and examples (preview).
* **[Host apps with Botyard](/docs/hosting-apps)**: run local web apps inside a bot and share authenticated Bot Page URLs.
* **[Self-hosted runtime](/docs/self-hosted)**: run a bot's runtime in your own Kubernetes cluster.
* **[MCP setup templates](/docs/mcp-setup-templates)**: create MCP servers from catalog entries.
* **[Terraform](/docs/terraform)**: manage Botyard resources as code.

## Outside this site

* **[Release notes](/release-notes)**: what's new and changed.
* **[App](https://app.botyard.io)**: the Botyard dashboard.
* **[botyard.io](https://botyard.io)**: product information.