PromptOwl Documentation
Welcome to the documentation for PromptOwl and Context Nest — the open protocol and hosted platform for giving AI agents structured, versioned, governed context.
New here? Start with the Overview (get a vault running in minutes) or What is PromptOwl? for the platform overview.
Context Nest — the protocol
The open, file-based standard: markdown + frontmatter, a selector grammar, versioning, and MCP access.
Quickstart
Core Concepts
Working with Context
- Selectors — Overview · Atoms · Operators · Examples
- Source Nodes — Overview · Writing Source Nodes · Source Frontmatter · Dependencies & Ordering
- Context Packs — Overview · Pack Format · Cloud Packs
- Addressing — Overview · URI Format · Resolution · Federation
- Injection — Overview · Tracing
- Versioning — Overview · Checkpoints · Integrity Verification · Storage Model
Distillation & Skills
- Distillation — turn a codebase, docs tree, or vault into a nest
- Vault-Hosted Skills —
type: skillnodes agents can run
Tooling
- CLI Reference — all
ctxcommands - MCP Server — the
context_*tools agents call - Configuration · Vault Registry & Multi-Vault
Hosting & API
- Self-Hosting (Community Edition)
- REST API Reference · Authentication & API Keys
- Remote & Governed Nests
Reference
PromptOwl Platform
Build, test, and deploy AI agents with context engineering, RAG, and multi-agent workflows.
- What is PromptOwl? — platform overview, agent types, features
Hosted Nest
- Hosted Nest · Connect an Agent (MCP)
- Folders · Publishing a Nest · Governance & Stewardship
- Connectors · Supported Frameworks · Workflows (Beta)
- Plugins · Google Drive · Building a Plugin — bring outside sources in, raw or summarized, and search them live
Enterprise Guides
- Overview — a step-by-step guide to the platform (users, prompts, documents, RAG/agents, MCP, white-label, analytics, API publishing, and more)
Tutorials
- Overview · Build an AI Support Chatbot · Choosing Your AI Model · Prompt Engineering Best Practices · Version Control & Testing
Documentation for promptowl.ai · Support: hoot@promptowl.ai
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- Addressing OverviewContext Nest uses the contextnest:// URI scheme to address documents, sections, tags, and folders within a vault.
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- Authentication & API KeysContextNest Community distinguishes two kinds of key, and it is worth keeping them straight:
- Build an AI Support ChatbotBuild a production-ready AI customer support chatbot that answers questions from your documentation, handles common inquiries, and escalates when needed…