# DocWriter

> A writing IDE with an AI agent as a concurrent collaborator.

## Docs

- [Comments](https://docs.docwriter.org/agent/comments.md): When the agent leaves margin feedback instead of editing, and how to respond.
- [Delegating tasks](https://docs.docwriter.org/agent/delegating-tasks.md): Use the agent for longer-running, multi-step work that does not fit a single chat turn.
- [The feedback popup](https://docs.docwriter.org/agent/feedback-popup.md): Give the agent feedback on a selected passage and choose how it responds. You can also use the popup with the keyboard.
- [Inline directives](https://docs.docwriter.org/agent/inline-directives.md): Leave [[ ... ]] notes for the agent in your prose. It picks them up on the next wake-up.
- [Observability](https://docs.docwriter.org/agent/observability.md): Inspect what the agent has been doing — the history pane, the transcript viewer, the message detail.
- [Reviewing edits](https://docs.docwriter.org/agent/reviewing-edits.md): Accept and reject agent edits, work with multiple pending rounds, and use undo.
- [Sessions](https://docs.docwriter.org/agent/sessions.md): Persisted agent context, the transcript viewer, and starting fresh.
- [Steering the agent](https://docs.docwriter.org/agent/steering-the-agent.md): Auto-wake, inline feedback, typed prompts, critique passes, autonomy, and models.
- [Hook events](https://docs.docwriter.org/automation/events.md): DocWriter wraps the Claude Agent SDK, so it inherits the SDK's hook events.
- [Hooks](https://docs.docwriter.org/automation/hooks.md): Run shell commands on agent events. Rebuild a PDF, push to git, lint a file.
- [Live preview](https://docs.docwriter.org/automation/preview.md): Open a popup window that re-renders whenever your hooks produce a new artifact.
- [Week of May 11, 2026](https://docs.docwriter.org/changelog/2026-05-15.md): PDF viewer, find bar, image attachments in chat, drag-and-drop, and more.
- [Week of May 18, 2026](https://docs.docwriter.org/changelog/2026-05-22.md): Agent image reads, system prompt in transcripts, reply-only comments, and a new-file fix.
- [July 2026](https://docs.docwriter.org/changelog/2026-07-22.md): Read about the changes to feedback, agent questions, errors, writing rules, and the review process.
- [Writing references](https://docs.docwriter.org/customize/references.md): Voice samples the agent matches when it generates prose.
- [Writing rules](https://docs.docwriter.org/customize/rules.md): Persistent style preferences and instructions the agent follows.
- [Skills](https://docs.docwriter.org/customize/skills.md): Teach the agent new behaviors with Claude Agent SDK skills.
- [Writing a research-backed blog post](https://docs.docwriter.org/guides/blog-with-research.md): Draft a post with gaps, leave [[ ... ]] notes for the agent to research, accept its findings inline.
- [Git workflow](https://docs.docwriter.org/guides/git-workflow.md): Use git for version control and automatic commits.
- [Mermaid diagrams](https://docs.docwriter.org/guides/mermaid.md): Render `.mmd` files as SVG on every edit.
- [Editing an Overleaf LaTeX project](https://docs.docwriter.org/guides/overleaf.md): Open an Overleaf LaTeX project in DocWriter, build the PDF on every edit, and push changes back to Overleaf over git.
- [Markdown to HTML preview](https://docs.docwriter.org/guides/pandoc-html.md): Live-render a markdown file as HTML on every edit.
- [Install](https://docs.docwriter.org/install.md): Install DocWriter and authenticate it with Anthropic.
- [Introduction](https://docs.docwriter.org/introduction.md): A research project on writing with AI.
- [Quickstart](https://docs.docwriter.org/quickstart.md): Open a folder, edit a file, and run through one agent revision cycle.
- [CLI](https://docs.docwriter.org/reference/cli.md): Every docwriter command-line flag and what it does.
- [How it works](https://docs.docwriter.org/reference/how-it-works.md): A short technical overview, for the curious.
- [Keyboard shortcuts](https://docs.docwriter.org/reference/shortcuts.md): Every keyboard shortcut DocWriter supports.
- [Editor](https://docs.docwriter.org/tour/editor.md): The Tiptap-based editing surface, with line numbers, find bar, and the inline feedback popup.
- [Interface tour](https://docs.docwriter.org/tour/interface.md): What every part of the DocWriter window does.
- [Tabs](https://docs.docwriter.org/tour/tabs.md): Open any text file as a tab. Per-tab state. How tabs persist.

## OpenAPI Specs

- [openapi](https://docs.docwriter.org/api-reference/openapi.json)