Kontext Encyclopedia

Kontext Docs

/docs · version 3.13 · 2026-10-06

Capabilities

Kontext Docs (/docs) is where you make a designed document, deck, or sheet — and keep changing it. Ask the editor for any change, edit any block, describe any picture, fix an imported PDF in place, and download real office files. It is not Documentation (/documentation) — that is the Help book Talk looks up.

What is Kontext Docs?

Kontext Docs (/docs) is where you make a designed document, deck, or sheet — and keep working on it. Empty shelf: One prompt. A designed document.

It is not Documentation (/documentation) — that is the Help book Talk looks up. Not Journal, not OS Notes, not Workspace Code, not Media.

Making a document

Audience (this device): Everyday · School · Work. Dock kind: Doc · Deck · Sheet. Picking an audience opens its Templates; templates fill the box with an editable brief — the brief alone always works.

The box works like a chat box: Enter sends, Shift+Enter is a new line. A letter or a list is written straight away; a report, a deck, or a document from files or research shows an outline first — change it in plain words, then Looks right — write it, or Skip — write as-is. Outline first makes every document start with one.

One paperclip — or drop or paste files: one file with an empty box opens it as a document; one file with a change (“fix the date on page 2”) opens it and hands the editor the ask; files with something to make build a new document from them (a CSV becomes its data). Research the web (the globe) cites live sources; the grounding control uses your Kontext data. Generated artwork density sets off / cover / cover + bands — your own image key first, the platform's default image model otherwise. Legal & official opens Counsel — prep, not a lawyer.

Changing anything

Ask the editor opens by itself when you create or open a document, with your brief already in it. It changes the whole document by conversation — rewrite, add sections, turn text into a table, add a cover picture, make it A4 landscape — answers questions about it, and takes attached, dropped or pasted files to use. The change previews in the page; Accept or Revert.

Click one block to change just that: Edit section / table / block / slide / invoice, the slide's chart, the sheet, or the theme. Quick actions or your own words; Accept / Retry / Revert.

Every picture takes your words: ✎ Describe (cover), ✎ Redo (a figure), ✦ Backdrop (a slide). Swap uses your Media library. Version history undoes any change.

Fixing a finished PDF

Open a PDF and the original is kept byte for byte. Tell Ask the editor the fix — small corrections (a word, a number, a form field, a page) go to the PDF itself, bigger changes to the editable copy, and the reply says which; Changes go to: Auto · Original PDF · Editable copy overrides it. Preview the real PDF on the Original PDF card, then Keep or Discard. Every version stays.

Replaced words are set in the closest standard font; the old words are covered, not erased. A scanned PDF has no text to replace — correct the transcribed copy instead. New sections or a redesign belong on the editable copy.

The reader

Open a document without leaving /docs. Library in the bar returns to the shelf. An imported document says at the top what came across and what did not.

Present a deck. Copy text puts the document on the clipboard for an email or another editor. Download real PDF / Word / Excel / PowerPoint / zip — headings, numbered and nested lists, quotes, code, tables and pictures carry across, in the document's page size and orientation; Word numbers its pages. Publish needs a server you already hold. 🛡 Certify on-chain gives a /docs/verify link. 📐 Save as template writes Your templates on this browser.

Grounded means live research or your own data. Shelf card pictures are a miniature, not a live thumbnail.

Talk, agents and MCP

Talk: “Write a one-page brief on the shop launch” makes a document; “Make the launch brief more formal and add a summary” changes one you have. Undo from Version history.

Agents and MCP clients can list, read, create, edit one block, revise the whole document and paint pictures (kontext.docs.*). Fixing an original PDF is done in the reader, in the browser.

What it is not

Not Help. Not Workspace generating an app. Not Media Studio. Not a signed-contract platform.

Not yet

User journeys

KD-01. Open Kontext Docs

Path: Module switcher → Kontext Docs · /docs · Kontext OS → Kontext Docs

You do:

  1. Sign in with the Kontext chooser (Google, Microsoft, Apple, passkey, Kontext ID, or recovery).
  2. Open the module switcher and choose Kontext Docs, or go to /docs, or launch it from the OS.
  3. Confirm the library loads: the heading What should we write? with the box to describe a document right under it, the rail (Everything · Pinned · Grounded, and In a community if you run one), Pick up where you left off once you have two documents, and the shelf On the shelf.
  4. If you meant the product's own manual, that is Documentation at /documentation — a different place.

Result: You are on the Docs library, where documents are made and kept.

KD-02. Open a document or brief from a link

Path: /docs?prompt=… · /docs?project=… · /docs?entity=…

You do:

  1. Open a link carrying ?prompt= to land with the brief already typed into the dock.
  2. Open a link carrying ?project= to go straight to that document in the reader.
  3. Open a link carrying ?entity= (from a Business record) to start a document stamped with that record.
  4. Use Library in the reader bar to return to the shelf.

Result: A link lands you on the right document or the right brief — no hunting.

KD-03. Create a document from a prompt

Path: /docs → the dock → type and press Enter

You do:

  1. Pick who it is for: Everyday, School or Work. The Templates for that audience open; pick one to fill the box (Letter, Essay / paper, Investor update, Pitch deck, Invoice…), or close them and write your own. Nothing stops you writing without one.
  2. Pick Doc, Deck or Sheet if the export matters to you (a deck or spreadsheet template sets it for you).
  3. Describe the document in your own words and press Enter (Shift+Enter for a new line), or the send arrow.
  4. A letter, a list or a one-pager is written straight away; a report, a deck, or a document built from files or research shows an outline first (KD-04).

Result: The document is written, designed and opened in the reader — with Ask the editor already open and your brief in it, so the next thing you type changes it.

KD-04. Shape the outline before it writes

Path: /docs → send → the outline panel · dock → Outline first

You do:

  1. For a big document the outline appears first: sections, tone, design direction and any open questions.
  2. Type a change in plain words — “shorter”, “add a risks section”, or an answer to a question — and send it. Repeat as often as you like.
  3. Press Looks right — write it, or Skip — write as-is to write straight from your brief.
  4. To see an outline for every document, even a letter, turn on Outline first in the dock (it stays on in this browser).

Result: Long documents follow an outline you agreed to; short ones are not held up by one.

KD-05. Start from a template

Path: /docs → Everyday / School / Work · the rail's Templates · the box's Templates icon

You do:

  1. Pick an audience at the top (Everyday, School or Work) — its templates open — or open Templates from the rail or the box.
  2. Switch audience inside the overlay if you need another list. Pick a curated start — Everyday: Shopping list, Letter, Party plan, Family budget, Recipe card; School: Essay / paper, Study notes, Lab report, Flashcards, Application letter; Work: Investor update, Pitch deck, Market brief, Invoice, Case study, Press release, Statement of work, Whitepaper and more — or one of Your templates, which always show first. Legal & official is at the end of every list.
  3. Add your own brief on top — the template sets the shape and look, your words set the content.
  4. Press Create.

Result: A new document in a proven shape, filled with your content.

KD-06. Build from your own files

Path: /docs → dock → Attach files (paperclip) · drop files on the page · paste

You do:

  1. Press the paperclip, drop files anywhere on the library, or paste them into the box — notes, PDFs, Word files, decks, sheets, CSV, Markdown, HTML, JSON or photos.
  2. Check the chips — each names a file; hover one to see how much it carried; ✕ removes it. The line above the box says what send will do.
  3. Say what to make from them (“a board update from these three reports”).
  4. Press Enter. Photos and scanned pages are read by AI when they are used.

Result: The document is written from your material — facts come from your files, not from guesswork.

KD-07. Research the web and cite sources

Path: /docs → dock → Research the web (globe)

You do:

  1. Press the globe. The chip Live web research appears; its ✕ turns it off.
  2. Or simply ask for it in the brief (“with current market data and sources”) — research switches on by itself.
  3. Press Create.
  4. In the reader, open Grounded · N sources to see what it read.

Result: A document that cites live sources, with the Grounded mark to show it.

KD-08. Ground it in your Kontext data or your own numbers

Path: /docs → dock → Use my Kontext data · Ground in my data · Ground in Kontext data · the paperclip

You do:

  1. Press the grounding control (its label follows the audience) and tick the sources to use — your own records, Business and CRM numbers.
  2. To chart your own numbers, attach a CSV with the paperclip (or drop it) — it becomes the data for the document's tables and charts.
  3. Describe the document and press Enter.
  4. Confirm the Grounded badge in the reader and on the shelf card.

Result: Tables, charts and figures come from your data, and the document says so.

KD-09. Choose how much generated artwork

Path: /docs → dock → Generated artwork density

You do:

  1. Press the artwork control to cycle: off, a cover backdrop, or cover plus section bands and slide backgrounds.
  2. Create the document. Pictures are painted in one shared style for the whole document.
  3. Your own image key under Profile → API keys is used first and billed by that provider; without one, the platform's default image model paints the pictures.

Result: As much or as little art as the document deserves, in one visual family.

KD-10. Prepare a legal or official document with Counsel

Path: /docs → Templates or the rail → Legal & official → Counsel

You do:

  1. Open Templates (or pick an audience, which opens them) and choose Legal & official, or press Legal & official in the rail. Counsel opens.
  2. Pick the closest template and answer its questions.
  3. Create the draft and read it carefully.
  4. Take it to a qualified professional before relying on it.

Result: A well-prepared draft to verify — Counsel is preparation, not legal advice.

KD-11. Open a file as a document

Path: /docs → dock → Attach files or drop the file → send with the box empty

You do:

  1. Attach or drop one DOCX, PDF, PPTX, XLSX, HTML file or a photo. The line above the box says “Send opens … as a document”.
  2. Leave the box empty and press Enter — or type what to change in it (“fix the date on page 2”) and it is opened and handed to the editor.
  3. Read the note at the top of the page — it says what came across (headings, lists, tables and links from Word or a web page; cell values from a sheet; the text of a PDF) and what did not (layout, fonts, formulas, charts).
  4. Keep talking in Ask the editor, which opens by itself.

Result: An editable copy of your file, with an honest note about what the import could and could not carry.

KD-12. Fix a finished PDF in place

Path: Reader → Ask the editor (or Fix the original on the Original PDF card)

You do:

  1. Open the PDF as a document (KD-11). The original file is kept byte for byte, and the Original PDF card appears above the editable copy.
  2. In Ask the editor, say the fix: “the total should be $4,210”, “fix ‘recieve’”, “fill in my name as Ada Lovelace”, “delete page 4”. Small corrections go to the PDF itself; bigger changes go to the editable copy. Changes go to: Auto · Original PDF · Editable copy lets you choose, and each reply says which it used.
  3. Read what it did (✓) and what it could not (✕), and check the real fixed PDF on the Original PDF card (Show it). If it could not be done in the PDF, press Do this on the editable copy instead.
  4. Press Keep (or Keep as version N on the card), or Discard.

Result: The same PDF — its layout, fonts and images — with the error corrected, saved as a new version. Replaced words are set in the closest standard font; the old words are covered, not erased, so a search inside the PDF can still find them.

KD-13. Go back to an earlier version of the PDF

Path: Reader → Original PDF card → Versions (clock)

You do:

  1. Open the versions menu on the Original PDF card.
  2. Pick any version — the original is version 1; each kept fix is the next.
  3. Use Open or Download on the card to get that version.

Result: Every version is kept; going back never deletes a later one.

KD-14. Work from a scanned PDF or a photo

Path: /docs → attach or drop a scan or a photo

You do:

  1. Attach a scanned PDF (no text inside it) or a photo of a page, and send.
  2. Its pages are transcribed by AI into an editable document; the note at the top says so.
  3. Check names and figures before you share it.
  4. For a scanned PDF, the original can still have its form filled and its pages deleted, rotated or reordered — but words cannot be replaced in a scan, so the editor changes the transcribed copy instead.

Result: A usable document from paper, with the limits stated where you will see them.

KD-15. Ask the editor to change the whole document — or anything about it

Path: Reader → Ask the editor (opens by itself after you create or open a document)

You do:

  1. Type what should change and press Enter — “make it more formal and add a summary up front”, “turn the pricing into a table”, “add a cover picture of a harbour at dawn”, “make it A4 landscape”. Or ask a question — “summarise it”, “are the numbers consistent?” — and get an answer without a change.
  2. Attach, drop or paste files for it to use — “update the table with these numbers” with a spreadsheet attached.
  3. Watch the change preview in the document itself, then press Accept or Revert. Keep talking to refine it — the conversation, including what you said to create the document, continues.
  4. Press New to start a fresh conversation; close it and it stays closed until you open it again.

Result: Any change to any part of the document, by conversation, reviewed before it is kept — and undoable from version history.

KD-16. Edit one section, table or designed block

Path: Reader → click a block → Edit section · Edit table · Edit block

You do:

  1. Click the block you want to change.
  2. Press a quick action (Punchier, Shorter, Expand, Formal tone; Add a column, Sort by impact; Add a KPI, Sharper labels) or type your own instruction.
  3. Review the replacement in place.
  4. Press Accept, Retry or Revert.

Result: A precise change to one part, with the rest of the document untouched.

KD-17. Edit a slide or its chart

Path: Reader (deck) → a slide → Edit slide · Chart: quick actions

You do:

  1. Click a slide.
  2. Use Tighten bullets, Add a chart or Rewrite notes — or describe the change.
  3. On a slide with a chart, use Chart: Change type or Chart: Clearer labels to change only the chart.
  4. Accept, Retry or Revert. The slide's picture and backdrop are kept unless you asked to change them.

Result: Slides and their charts change on request without losing the art you already have.

KD-18. Edit an invoice or a sheet

Path: Reader → Edit invoice · the sheet

You do:

  1. On an invoice, press Edit invoice and use Add line item, Net-30 terms or Add tax — or describe the change.
  2. On a sheet, use Add a column or Add totals, or describe the change.
  3. Check totals and amounts in the preview.
  4. Accept or Revert.

Result: Invoices and sheets change by instruction and stay consistent.

KD-19. Describe a picture — cover, figure or slide backdrop

Path: Reader → ✎ Describe (cover) · ✎ Redo (a figure) · ✦ Backdrop / ✎ Backdrop (a slide)

You do:

  1. On the cover, press ✎ Describe; on a figure, ✎ Redo; on a slide, ✦ Backdrop (or ✎ Backdrop to replace one).
  2. Say what the picture should be — “a lighthouse at dusk, warm light, no people”.
  3. The new picture is painted in the document's own art style and put in place.
  4. To use a picture you already have, press Swap and pick from your Media library; ✕ removes a figure.

Result: Every picture in the document follows your words, not a random re-roll.

KD-20. Restyle the look, page size and text size

Path: Reader → Theme & document actions → palettes · fonts · ✨ Restyle with AI · Halve the length

You do:

  1. Open Theme & document actions and pick a curated palette or a font, or press ✨ Restyle with AI (Bolder, Calmer, or your own words).
  2. Ask the editor for paper and size: “A4”, “legal paper”, “landscape”, “make the text larger”.
  3. Press Halve the length (then confirm) to condense every section at once.
  4. Check the reader and a fresh download — both follow the theme.

Result: One change restyles the reader and every export; the cover picture and your settings are kept unless you asked to change them.

KD-21. Undo with version history

Path: Reader → Version history

You do:

  1. Open Version history.
  2. Pick an earlier snapshot — every accepted change and every editor change makes one.
  3. Restore it.

Result: The text returns to that point. Pictures stay in the document's assets, so nothing painted is lost.

KD-22. Present a deck

Path: Reader (deck) → Present

You do:

  1. Open a document with slides.
  2. Press Present (“Present the deck full-screen”).
  3. Move through the slides; leave full screen to return to the reader.

Result: The deck runs full screen straight from Docs.

KD-23. Download real office files

Path: Reader → Download

You do:

  1. Press Download.
  2. Choose PDF, Word (DOCX), Excel (XLSX) (when there is a sheet), PowerPoint (PPTX) (when there is a deck), or Everything (.zip).
  3. Open the file — headings, numbered and nested lists, quotes, code, tables, charts and pictures carry across; the PDF and Word file use the document's page size and orientation, and Word numbers its pages.

Result: Real office files built from the document on click — ready to send.

KD-29. Copy the text into an email or another app

Path: Reader → Copy text

You do:

  1. Press Copy text in the reader bar.
  2. Paste into an email, a chat, Google Docs or Word — headings, lists, tables, bold and links come with it.
  3. Where rich paste is not supported, clean plain text is pasted instead.

Result: The document leaves Kontext the way a ChatGPT draft does — by paste — without a download.

KD-24. Publish a live page

Path: Reader → Publish

You do:

  1. Press Publish.
  2. If you hold a server, publish to it; if not, Choose a server… — publishing never buys one silently.
  3. Open the live link and share it.

Result: The document as a live web page on a server you hold.

KD-25. Certify a document and verify it

Path: Reader → 🛡 Certify on-chain · /docs/verify

You do:

  1. Press 🛡 Certify on-chain and wait for the verify link.
  2. Send the link with the document.
  3. The receiver opens /docs/verify and confirms the fingerprint matches the file they were sent.

Result: Anyone can check the document is exactly the one you certified, without edit access.

KD-26. Keep your shelf — pin, search, save a template

Path: /docs library · Reader → 📐 Save as template

You do:

  1. Pin a document from its shelf card; filter the shelf by All / Grounded / Pinned.
  2. Search with Search documents….
  3. In the reader, press 📐 Save as template to reuse this document's shape and look — it appears under Your templates.
  4. Delete a document from its card (click twice to confirm).

Result: A tidy shelf. Pins and saved templates are kept in this browser for now, not on your account.

KD-27. Write or change a document by asking Talk

Path: My Kontext → Talk (or voice)

You do:

  1. Say or type “Write a one-page brief on the shop launch” to make a new document.
  2. Say “Make the launch brief more formal and add a summary” to change one you already have — Talk finds the document by its name.
  3. Open it in Kontext Docs to read the result.
  4. Undo from the document's Version history if you do not like it.

Result: Documents made and changed by asking, without opening the editor. Fixing an original PDF in place is done on the Original PDF card, not by Talk.

KD-28. Let an agent or MCP client work on your documents

Path: Agents · MCP clients · Kontext capabilities kontext.docs.*

You do:

  1. Give an agent or an MCP client (Claude, Cursor and others connected to Kontext) your documents lane.
  2. It can list your library, read a document, create one, change one block (a section, table, slide, chart, sheet, theme or invoice), revise the whole document, and paint pictures.
  3. Changes land as new versions in the same reader you use.
  4. Review them in Kontext Docs and undo from Version history if needed.

Result: Your documents can be written and maintained by your agents, with every change visible and reversible.

How it works

Route /docs. Document authoring (not /documentation help). A document is a project on your account made of editable parts — a manifest (title, sections, theme), the body text by section, designed blocks, slides, a sheet, an invoice, attached data, the research it stood on, and its pictures. Every output is built from those parts on click: the reader, the published page, the e-book, and the PDF / Word / Excel / PowerPoint downloads, which follow the theme's page size (letter, A4, legal) and orientation.

Three ways to change it, one set of rules. Ask the editor revises the whole document by conversation; a click on one block changes just that part; every picture takes your words. Talk, agents and MCP clients (kontext.docs.*) use the same rules. Every accepted change is a snapshot in Version history (the last ten), and pictures an editor change asks for are painted after you accept.

The original PDF is a separate, kept file. An imported PDF is kept byte for byte beside its editable copy, with a record of every version. Fix the original reads its text layer and form, plans the fix from your words, and applies it to the original file — covered words, the closest standard font, the form's own fields, page deletes, rotations and moves — then keeps it as the next version only when you say so.

Publish goes to a server you already hold; Certify on-chain records the document's fingerprint for /docs/verify.

Benefits

Who it's for

Primary: owners producing client-ready documents — and fixing ones already sent. Also: students and households (School and Everyday audiences); agents and MCP clients working on the owner's behalf. Not: people looking for product how-tos (use Documentation), a picture or a clip as the product (use Kontext Media), or a signed contract (e-sign is not shipped).