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title: "Chickpea documentation"
description: "Everything you need to deploy Chickpea, connect Slack, give an Agent its accounts and channels, and understand exactly what it may do."
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> Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.chickpea.co/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Chickpea documentation

Chickpea gives your team AI teammates in Slack, each with its own handle, instructions, memory, connected accounts, and channels, running on infrastructure you own. Every page here is also served as Markdown for agents; the index is at [docs.chickpea.co/llms.txt](https://docs.chickpea.co/llms.txt).

**Start with** [Get started on Cloudflare](/start/get-started-cloudflare) to deploy and get a first reply, or [How Chickpea works](/start/how-it-works) for the shape of the thing.

- **Start** — What Chickpea is, how it works, and the two ways to get a first reply. [Open](/start).
- **In Slack** — Mentions, threads, DMs, and managing Chickpea by asking. [Open](/slack).
- **Agents** — Instructions, models, connections, repositories, skills, memory, schedules. [Open](/agents).
- **Admin** — The browser app, sign-in and roles, the management MCP. [Open](/admin).
- **Security** — The guarantees, authority and confirmation, data handling. [Open](/security).
- **Deploy and operate** — Cloudflare, Node, configuration, upgrades, backups. [Open](/operate).
- **Reference** — Environment variables, manifest, connectors, limits, MCP tools. [Open](/reference).
- **Contribute** — Development setup, architecture, releasing. [Open](/contribute).

Chickpea is Apache 2.0 licensed. Source at [github.com/pejmanjohn/chickpea](https://github.com/pejmanjohn/chickpea), product site at [chickpea.co](https://chickpea.co).

Source: https://docs.chickpea.co/index.mdx