Guides
These guides assume ProdE is already connected to your repositories and ready to use. If you still need to set things up, start with Setting Up ProdE.
New to ProdE? Read The Basics first. It defines the core pieces (ProdE Chat, Repo Wikis, Projects, Documents, and the MCP server) that every guide below builds on.
Rather than documenting each feature in isolation, every guide here is built around a real goal. Pick the scenario that matches what you are trying to do.
Pick Your Scenario
| You want to... | Start here |
|---|---|
| Get productive on an unfamiliar repository or service | Onboarding a Codebase |
| Answer product and technical questions without pulling in engineering | Answering Product Questions |
| Build against a service another team owns, without waiting on them | Integrating with Other Services |
| Trace behavior across services and understand what a change will affect | Debugging and Impact Analysis |
| Take a new feature from a rough idea to agent-ready specifications | New Feature Development |
| Build with full project and codebase context inside your editor | Building with Your Coding Agent |
How These Guides Fit Together
ProdE gives you the same understanding of your product in three places: the Documentation page (Repo Wikis), ProdE Chat, and your coding agent through ProdE's MCP server. Most of these guides move fluidly between all three, because the right surface depends on what you are doing.
- Reading and understanding tends to start in Repo Wikis and ProdE Chat.
- Planning and specifying happens inside Projects.
- Building happens in your editor, with ProdE feeding context to your coding agent.
If you are looking for reference material on a specific feature instead of a workflow, head to that feature's own page. The guides link out to the relevant reference throughout.
Azure DevOps Integration Setup
Complete guide for connecting your Azure DevOps repositories to ProdE's knowledge layer.
The Basics
A quick glossary of the core parts of ProdE you will use most: ProdE Chat, Repo Wikis, Projects, Documents, and the MCP server. Read this once and the rest of the guides will make sense.