> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://gladlabs.mintlify.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Poindexter

> Open-source AI content pipeline. Self-host, full local-LLM control, multi-niche.

<Note>
  Poindexter is an open-source, self-hosted AI content pipeline. It researches,
  writes, reviews, and publishes long-form content on your own hardware — with a
  human-in-the-loop approval queue and six independent QA rails that catch
  hallucinations before anything ships.
</Note>

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  <Card title="Get up and running" icon="rocket" href="/docs/quickstart">
    From `git clone` to your first generated post in about thirty minutes. Includes the bootstrap CLI, Docker stack, and a health-check walkthrough.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Understand the architecture" icon="diagram-project" href="/docs/architecture/overview">
    The kernel/module/capability structure, the LangGraph pipeline, the three anti-hallucination layers, and how the pieces compose.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Operate it in production" icon="gauge-high" href="/docs/operations/index">
    Day-2 runbooks: incident response, backups, secret rotation, disaster recovery, and the CI/deploy chain.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Extend with plugins" icon="puzzle-piece" href="/docs/operations/extending-poindexter">
    Add a new Stage, Reviewer, Publishing Adapter, Tap, or Module — twenty plugin entry-point groups, all step-by-step.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## What is Poindexter?

Poindexter is a single-operator content engine. One person, one machine, a
local Ollama install, and a Postgres database. The pipeline pulls topics from
configurable sources, drafts with a writer LLM, reviews adversarially with a
different LLM, runs six OSS QA rails over the result, and hands you a queue of
posts to approve from your phone. Everything tunable lives in the
`app_settings` table — no `.env` to babysit.

The engine is Apache 2.0. A separate **Poindexter Pro** add-on at
[gladlabs.ai](https://www.gladlabs.ai) bundles tuned prompts,
extra Grafana dashboards, and a long-form book — the engine itself stays free
and runs without it.

## By the numbers

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  <Card title="6 OSS QA rails" icon="shield-check">
    DeepEval (×3), guardrails (×2, native), and Ragas — every generated post is
    judged by all six before it can be auto-published.
  </Card>

  <Card title="39 scheduled jobs" icon="clock">
    PluginScheduler boots taps, retention sweeps, memory hygiene, and content
    surfaces on declarative DB rows. No hand-rolled cron.
  </Card>

  <Card title="20 plugin entry points" icon="plug">
    Tap, Probe, Job, Stage, TopicSource, LLMProvider, ImageProvider,
    PublishAdapter, Module, and more — every surface is a registered
    Protocol.
  </Card>

  <Card title="$0/month infra" icon="dollar-sign">
    Fully self-hosted. Ollama on your GPU, Postgres on the box, no paid API
    in the critical path.
  </Card>

  <Card title="13 Grafana dashboards" icon="chart-line">
    Mission Control, Pipeline, Cost, Observability, System Health,
    Integrations, QA Rails, Findings, Revenue, Experiments & Dry-Run,
    Database, Hardware & Power, and SEO Harvest — pre-provisioned.
  </Card>

  <Card title="38-node pipeline" icon="list-check">
    `canonical_blog` graph\_def: write → self-review → citation repair →
    images → QA rails → SEO → media scripts → finalize.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Contribute

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  <Card title="GitHub" icon="github" href="https://github.com/Glad-Labs/poindexter">
    Issues, discussions, pull requests. Apache 2.0 licensed.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Contributing guide" icon="code-pull-request" href="https://github.com/Glad-Labs/poindexter/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md">
    How to set up a dev environment and ship your first PR.
  </Card>
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