# Documentation

- [Getting Started](/docs): Install Adapt and build your first Brain in under 5 minutes.
- [Concepts](/docs/concepts): The mental model — architecture, pipeline, neuron types, evolution, and steering. Read this once; guide pages assume it.
- **Guides**

- [Brain](/docs/brain): Creating, configuring, and querying a Brain.
- [Neurons](/docs/neurons): TextNeuron and ListNeuron — learning, querying, governance, and schemas.
- [Configuration](/docs/configuration): Full BrainConfig reference, model cascade, providers, thresholds, and governance.
- [Cost & Performance](/docs/cost): LLM call counts per operation, model-slot routing, and tuning for production workloads.
- [Models](/docs/models): Tested models and providers.
- [Stores](/docs/stores): Memory and SQLite storage layers, persistence across sessions, and custom stores.
- [Evolution](/docs/evolution): Configuring and steering the signal → evaluate → act loop.
- [Prompt Design](/docs/prompt-design): How prompts and instructions shape decomposition, schema generation, and neuron behavior.
- [Events & Lifecycle](/docs/events): Subscribing to brain events, the order they fire in, timing expectations, and the full event reference.
- [Recipes](/docs/recipes): Real-world patterns — proactive insights, quality gating, dual-brain architecture.
- [Changelog](/docs/changelog): Release history for Adapt.

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  - [Brain API Reference](/docs/reference/brain-api): Complete Brain class API — lifecycle, data, neuron management, evolution, and result types.
  - [Neuron API Reference](/docs/reference/neuron-api): Shared API for TextNeuron and ListNeuron.