> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://plain-docs-orca-916-agent-docs-restructure.mintlify.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Help Center

> Publish and manage Help Center articles, groups, and navigation through the API.

[Plain's Help Center](/product/help-center) lets you publish self-serve articles for your customers, hosted either on a Plain subdomain or on your own custom domain.

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The Help Center API covers managing the *content* of a Help Center programmatically:

* **Articles**: individual help pages with HTML content
* **Article groups**: folders that organize articles in the navigation
* **The navigation index**: the ordered tree of groups and articles that drives the Help Center sidebar

Use the API when you want to keep articles in sync with a docs-as-code workflow in your own git repo, or to bulk-author content from another source.

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  Help centers themselves (name, subdomain, branding, access, custom domains) are created and configured in the Plain app under **Settings → Help Center**. The API only covers managing content within an existing Help Center.
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These operations require the following permissions:

* `helpCenter:edit`

The read queries require:

* `helpCenter:read`