# Dicto Docs

> Installation and operations handbook for Dicto. Choose a recipe, supply required inputs and verify each service.

Read a recipe before running commands. Supply required inputs and follow its verification steps.

## Guides

- [Backend, database and storage](/components/backend.md): Understand initialization, shared runtime roles and persistent data in the core reference setup.
- [Deploy the inference gateway](/components/gateway.md): Route stable model aliases to private transcription and LLM services with explicit authentication.
- [Deploy the text-generation LLM](/components/llm.md): Run the maintained GPT-OSS serving profile, test generation and connect its model alias to Dicto.
- [Deploy the management app](/components/management.md): Configure the management browser application, reverse proxy, public API URL and authentication callbacks.
- [Deploy the transcription service](/components/transcription.md): Serve Whisper with vLLM, connect its model to Dicto and verify a real audio upload.
- [Schemas & examples](/configuration.md): Download validated configuration references for the server and desktop app.
- [Authentication and browser URLs](/configure/authentication.md): Configure public auth roots, trusted origins, callbacks and bootstrap administration coherently.
- [Configure models and capabilities](/configure/models.md): Map Dicto catalog identities to provider models and verify each capability explicitly.
- [Improve these docs](/contributing.md): Improve installation instructions, configuration examples and troubleshooting guides.
- [Set up the client](/deployment/client.md): Connect managed workstations and browser applications to your Dicto server.
- [Server deployment](/deployment/server.md): Find the complete installation recipes and backend component guide.
- [Dicto Docs](/index.md): Install Dicto, connect its AI services, use the apps and operate your deployment.
- [Install with existing AI endpoints](/install/external-ai.md): Deploy the Dicto core and management app while using separately hosted transcription and text-generation APIs.
- [Our reference deployment](/install/reference.md): Download a sanitized core setup derived from the maintained deployment, with topology, configuration and checks.
- [Install self-hosted transcription and LLM](/install/self-hosted-ai.md): Start Whisper, GPT-OSS and an authenticated internal gateway alongside the reference Dicto core.
- [Getting started with Dicto](/learn/getting-started.md): Connect to your server, select a workspace and verify your first recording workflow.
- [Backups, restoration and upgrades](/operations/backup-upgrade.md): Preserve persistent data and configuration, then migrate matched runtime versions with a tested recovery path.
- [Verify & troubleshoot](/operations/troubleshooting.md): Check the complete path from client to API, storage, and transcription.
- [Agent access and setup metadata](/reference/agents.md): Read clean Markdown, discover installation recipes and verify downloadable files without private source access.
- [Versions, provenance and validation](/reference/versions.md): Identify the maintained setup snapshot, image pins, adaptations and limits of documentation validation.
- [Architecture and service connections](/start/architecture.md): Understand the public URLs, private services and inference path before installing Dicto.
- [Requirements and installation choices](/start/requirements.md): Choose a deployment profile and collect the infrastructure, credentials and model inputs it needs.

## Downloads and setup metadata

- [Setup recipes](/setup/index.json): Required inputs, ordered steps, validation status and archive checksums.
- [dicto-reference](/downloads/dicto-reference-setup-1.1.0.zip): Complete setup archive; SHA-256 `328c1669860d5eca5bed31c1c59f11e7a298e09d32fa80cd9e645877ec3659a7`.