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title: Introduction
description: What Kura is, and why it is built for humans and AI agents alike.
section: Get started
order: 1
---

# Introduction

**Kura is the knowledgebase for humans and agents**, built on
[June](https://june.build). One source of content: humans read a polished website, while
AI agents query and call it in a structured, machine-readable way — single source, never
out of sync.

## Why Kura

The audience for docs is changing: more and more traffic comes from AI agents. Traditional
docs tools treat "for agents" as a bolt-on; Kura makes it the foundation.

> One source → HTML (for people), Markdown and JSON (for machines), MCP tools (for agents
> to call), with zero duplication.

This tip box is written with the MDX `<Callout>` component — people see a styled card,
while the agent-facing `.md` is clean plain text.

## A shared knowledgebase

- **Humans**: sidebar, table of contents, search, copy-as-Markdown browsing.
- **Agents**: every page has a `.md` source, a `/llms.txt` index, and a callable `/mcp`
  search tool.

## Design principles

1. **Deploys anywhere out of the box** — a filesystem-free Worker bundle with zero-dependency
   lexical search; no model or service to provision.
2. **Semantic search when you want it** — add an embedder (bge-m3, multilingual) and the same
   pure-JavaScript retrieval engine upgrades from keywords to meaning.
3. **Convention over configuration** — what Mintlify makes you bolt on, Kura ships built in.