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title: Introduction
subtitle: The infrastructure for enterprise AI prompts
slug: welcome
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Elacity is the package manager for AI prompts. Build, version, validate, and deploy prompt systems with PRM — just like npm for JavaScript or Cargo for Rust, but for your AI agent infrastructure.

## What is Elacity?

Elacity provides a complete lifecycle for managing AI prompts at scale. Instead of copying and pasting prompts across projects, Elacity lets you treat prompts as versioned, composable artifacts with strict validation and one-command deployment.

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  <Card title="Build" icon="duotone hammer">
    Author modular prompts with reusable components, JSON Schema I/O contracts, and environment-aware preprocessors.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Version" icon="duotone code-branch">
    Every prompt is semantically versioned with lockfile support for reproducible builds and safe rollbacks.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Deploy" icon="duotone rocket">
    Push validated artifacts to every runtime — OpenAI, Vapi, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and custom targets — with a single command.
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## Core Concepts

### Prompt Registries

Registries are collections of versioned prompt artifacts scoped to an organization. Registries can be **public** (accessible without authentication) or **private** (restricted to organization members and API keys).

### Agents

Agents are deployable AI configurations that combine prompts with provider settings, tool references, and environment-specific configuration. Agents can be deployed to multiple environments and provider runtimes.

### Environments

Environments (e.g. `dev`, `test`, `prod`) let you manage provider credentials and configuration separately from your prompt logic. Each environment can have its own secrets and provider settings.

### Tools

Tools are reusable function definitions that agents can invoke. Define a tool once and reference it across multiple agents and prompts.

## Getting Started

<Steps>
  <Step title="Create an account">
    Sign up at [elacity.ai](https://elacity.ai/auth/login) and create your organization. See [Creating an Account](/creating-an-account) for a walkthrough.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Generate an API key">
    Navigate to **Settings → API Keys** to create an API key for programmatic access. See [API Keys](/api-keys) for details.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Make your first API call">
    Use the API reference to explore available endpoints. Authenticate with the `X-API-Key` header:

    ```bash
    curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
      https://elacity.ai/api/environments/list \
      -d '{"orgSlug": "your-org"}'
    ```
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Next Steps

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  <Card title="API Keys" icon="duotone key" href="/api-keys">
    Create and manage API keys for programmatic access
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  <Card title="API Reference" icon="duotone code" href="/api-reference">
    Explore the full API with interactive documentation
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