Use AI Tools with Planet Docs
Planet Documentation is built to be usable by both people and AI systems. Use the Ask AI assistant for guided answers in your browser, connect an AI agent to the Ask AI MCP server for structured access to documentation content, or use the machine-readable text files to feed documentation content directly to a language model.
Ask AI Assistant
Ask AI is a chat assistant available from the navigation bar on every page of Planet Documentation. It answers questions using Planet Documentation, API specifications, GitHub repositories, Planet University, Planet Community, and the Support Center as sources, and provides links back to the source content.
Validate answers and check any code before running it, as the assistant can make mistakes.
Ask AI MCP Server
The Ask AI assistant is also available as a remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, so that an MCP-compatible AI assistant or coding agent can search Planet documentation directly from your development environment.
To connect, add the following server URL to your MCP client configuration, such as Claude Desktop, Cursor, or VS Code:
https://planet.mcp.kapa.ai
Once connected, the client exposes a single search tool that queries Planet Documentation and returns the most relevant content along with a source URL for each result.
The Ask AI MCP server searches Planet Documentation and related content. To let an agent call Planet APIs directly, such as searching for imagery or placing an order, use Planet MCP instead.
Machine-Readable Documentation Files
Planet Documentation also publishes plain-text and markdown versions of its content, which agents and other tools can fetch directly without parsing HTML.
llms.txt
llms.txt is an index of every page on Planet Documentation, with a link and short description for each page. Use it to give an agent an overview of what documentation is available before it decides which pages to read.
For faster, cheaper, and more exhaustive answers, add a line to your coding tool's system prompt or configuration pointing it at the index, such as:
Planet's documentation is indexed at https://docs.planet.com/llms.txt. Consult it to find the relevant page.
You can also give an agent a full task and let it use the index to find its own way, for example:
Use Planet's Data and Orders APIs to build a script that searches for the most recent PlanetScope image with less than 10% cloud cover over a given AOI and places an order for it. Follow the instructions in https://docs.planet.com/llms.txt to find the relevant API references and examples.
llms-full.txt
llms-full.txt contains the full content of every page on Planet Docs in a single markdown file. Use it to give an agent the complete documentation corpus in one request.
Per-Page Markdown
Every documentation page is also available as plain markdown by appending .md to its URL. For example, the markdown version of this page is available at:
https://docs.planet.com/platform/get-started/ai-tools.md
Use per-page markdown files when an agent only needs the content of a specific page rather than the full corpus.