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# LLM documentation for Netlify

> Comprehensive documentation for the Netlify web platform for building and deploying production-ready sites and web apps that are highly performant, secure, and ready to scale. Covers serverless functions, edge functions, async workloads, data and blob storage, image CDN, build configuration, deploys, domains, forms, team management, and AI tooling (skills, agent runners). Agent skills repository: https://github.com/netlify/context-and-tools.

Netlify is a web platform for building highly performant, secure, and reliable websites and web apps.
Use the following docs to identify the available capabilities and where to learn more about them

## Markdown versions of any page

Every documentation page in this index is also available as Markdown: append `.md` to any docs.netlify.com URL to get the raw Markdown source instead of the rendered HTML page.

For example, https://docs.netlify.com/build/functions/overview/ is also available at https://docs.netlify.com/build/functions/overview.md.

This applies to every page listed below, so you can fetch Markdown directly rather than parsing HTML.

## Quick setup

Netlify provides official skills to give AI coding agents accurate, up-to-date context and tools for building on Netlify.

### Install the Netlify CLI

```
npm install -g netlify-cli
```

Learn more: https://docs.netlify.com/api-and-cli-guides/cli-guides/get-started-with-cli/

### Install Netlify Skills

Netlify Skills are focused, factual references for building with Netlify platform primitives, such as serverless functions, edge functions, async workloads, Netlify Database, Blobs storage, Image CDN, forms, redirects, headers, caching, and more. Install all available skills with:

```
npx skills add netlify/context-and-tools --skill '*' --yes
```

Learn more: https://docs.netlify.com/build/build-with-ai/agent-setup-guides/agent-setup-overview.md and https://github.com/netlify/context-and-tools

### Install Netlify MCP Server

The Netlify MCP Server lets code agents create projects, deploy sites, manage environment variables, and more using the Netlify API and CLI.

Add the following to your MCP configuration (e.g. `mcp.json`):

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "netlify": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@netlify/mcp"]
    }
  }
}
```

For Claude Code, run: `claude mcp add --transport http netlify https://mcp.netlify.com/mcp`

Learn more: https://docs.netlify.com/build/build-with-ai/agent-setup-guides/agent-setup-overview.md

### Netlify API Reference

Full OpenAPI specification: https://open-api.netlify.com/

If you're an AI agent, check out https://netlify.ai for more info on how to deploy to the web autonomously.

## Serverless Functions
- [Netlify Functions Overview](https://docs.netlify.com/build/functions/overview.md): Use serverless functions to run on-demand, server-side code without having to run a dedicated server.
- [Get started with Functions](https://docs.netlify.com/build/functions/get-started.md): Create functions source files in TypeScript and JavaScript; use environment variables, manage dependencies, and test locally.
- [Background Functions](https://docs.netlify.com/build/functions/background-functions.md): Use Background Functions for long-running serverless functions that handle tasks like batch processing, scraping, and more.
- [Scheduled Functions](https://docs.netlify.com/build/functions/scheduled-functions.md): Enable Scheduled Functions to run serverless functions on a regular and consistent schedule, like a cron job.
- [Function logs](https://docs.netlify.com/build/functions/logs.md): Observe and troubleshoot serverless functions using logs in the Netlify UI across your published deploy, branch deploys, and Deploy Previews.

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