## 1. Project Overview & Quickstart (Kiln-AI/CONTRIBUTING)

# CONTRIBUTING

Open-source repository Kiln-AI/CONTRIBUTING

### Repository Details
- **Repository:** [Kiln-AI/CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/Kiln-AI/CONTRIBUTING)
- **Primary Language:** Code

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## 2. Official Technical Reference & Guides (Kiln-AI/docs)

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# Welcome to Kiln AI

Kiln AI is the easiest tool for:

* 🎛️ [**Fine Tuning**](docs/fine-tuning/fine-tuning-guide.md): Zero-code fine-tuning for Llama, GPT-4o, and more. Automatic serverless deployment of models.
* 📊 [**Evals**](docs/evals-and-specs/evaluations.md): Evaluate the quality of your models/tasks using state of the art evaluators.
* 📈 [**Optimizers**](docs/optimizers.md): Find the best model, prompt or fine-tune for your task. Improve quality and lower costs.
* 🔍 [**Docs & Search (RAG)**](docs/documents-and-search-rag.md): Add knowledge to your AI systems with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
* 🤖 [**Agents**](docs/agents.md): Build agentic systems with multiple actors
* 🛠 [**Tools & MCP**](docs/tools-and-mcp/): Connect powerful tools to your Kiln tasks, or write your own in Python with [Code Tools](docs/tools-and-mcp/code-tools.md)
* 🧩 [**Skills**](docs/skills.md): Load more instructions, depending on the goal.
* 🪄 [**Synthetic Data Generation**](docs/synthetic-data-generation/): Generate training data with our interactive visual tooling.
* 🧠 [**Reasoning Models**](docs/fine-tuning/guide-train-a-reasoning-model.md): Train or distill your own custom reasoning models.
* 🤝 [**Team Collaboration**](docs/collaboration/): Git-based version control for your AI datasets. Intuitive UI makes it easy to collaborate with QA, PM, and subject matter experts on structured data (examples, prompts, ratings, feedback, issues, etc.).

### Jump right in



|  |  |  |  | Cover image |
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| **Quickstart** | Download our app, setup a task, and run AI models. |  | [quickstart.md](docs/quickstart.md) | [App3.png](.gitbook/assets/App3.png) |
| **Automatic Prompt Optimizer** | Find the best possible prompt for your task. |  | [automatic-prompt-optimizer.md](docs/prompts/automatic-prompt-optimizer.md) | [Prompts3.png](.gitbook/assets/Prompts3.png) |
| **Models and AI Providers** | Manage which models you can use in Kiln. |  | [models-and-ai-providers.md](docs/models-and-ai-providers.md) | [providers3.png](.gitbook/assets/providers3.png) |
| **Fine Tuning** | Our guide for fine tuning AI models |  | [fine-tuning-guide.md](docs/fine-tuning/fine-tuning-guide.md) | [tuning2.png](.gitbook/assets/tuning2.png) |
| **Evals** | Evaluate the quality of your models/tasks |  | [evals-and-specs](docs/evals-and-specs/) | [Eval (1).png](.gitbook/assets/Eval (1).png) |
| **Tools & MCP** | Connect tools to Kiln |  | [tools-and-mcp](docs/tools-and-mcp/) | [MCP.png](.gitbook/assets/MCP.png) |
| **Code Tools** | Write a Python function that runs as a tool |  | [code-tools.md](docs/tools-and-mcp/code-tools.md) | [tools2.png](.gitbook/assets/tools2.png) |
| **Search Tools / RAG** | Add documents and create search indexes |  | [documents-and-search-rag.md](docs/documents-and-search-rag.md) | [rag icon 2-2.png](.gitbook/assets/rag icon 2-2.png) |
| **Agents** | Build multi-action agentic systems |  | [agents.md](docs/agents.md) | [Agents-2.png](.gitbook/assets/Agents-2.png) |
| **Synthetic Data Generation** | Generate training data for models with AI |  | [synthetic-data-generation](docs/synthetic-data-generation/) | [synth.png](.gitbook/assets/synth.png) |
| **Skills** | Dynamically load prompts for the current goal. |  | [skills.md](docs/skills.md) | [skills.png](.gitbook/assets/skills.png) |
| **Python Library Setup** | Install and use our python library. |  | [python-library-quickstart.md](developers/python-library-quickstart.md) | [python3.png](.gitbook/assets/python3.png) |
| **Demo Project** | End to end demo video showing how to use Kiln |  | [end-to-end-project-demo.md](docs/end-to-end-project-demo.md) | [Video-2.png](.gitbook/assets/Video-2.png) |
| **Build a Reasoning Model** | Create your own reasoning model, like o3 or R1 |  | [guide-train-a-reasoning-model.md](docs/fine-tuning/guide-train-a-reasoning-model.md) | [distill.png](.gitbook/assets/distill.png) |