> For AI agents: the complete Sanity documentation index is available at [https://www.sanity.io/docs/llms.txt](https://www.sanity.io/docs/llms.txt).

# APIs and SDKs

Build and manage the Sanity Operating System programmatically through our APIs and SDKs. Here you find documentation for functionality that sits on top of and outside of Content Lake (our datastore) and Compute and AI layers. 



#### App SDK

[App SDK Quickstart](https://www.sanity.io/docs/app-sdk/sdk-quickstart)
Get up and running quickly with the Sanity App SDK by following this step-by-step guide!

[App SDK Reference](https://reference.sanity.io/_sanity/sdk-react/)
Reference documentation for App SDK. 

[App SDK Explorer](https://sdk-explorer.sanity.io)
Example interfaces built with the App SDK

#### Popular libraries

[@sanity/client](https://github.com/sanity-io/client)
Sanity's official JS/TS client

[next-sanity](https://github.com/sanity-io/next-sanity)
A full-featured collection of Next.js Sanity integrations

[Sanity Connect for Shopify](https://www.sanity.io/docs/apis-and-sdks/sanity-connect-for-shopify)
Sync your content between Sanity and Shopify

#### Schemas

[Introduction to schemas](https://www.sanity.io/docs/apis-and-sdks/introduction-to-schemas)
Learn how schemas define content structure across Sanity and design effective, evolving content models that grow with your business needs.

[Studio schema reference](https://www.sanity.io/docs/studio/schema-types)
A schema describes the types of documents and fields editors may author in a Sanity Studio workspace.

[Schema deployment](https://www.sanity.io/docs/apis-and-sdks/schema-deployment)
Deploy your schema into your dataset to enable deep integration between your content model and Sanity apps.

#### Asset API

[Presenting images](https://www.sanity.io/docs/apis-and-sdks/presenting-images)
Presenting images through the Sanity image pipeline

[Image metadata](https://www.sanity.io/docs/apis-and-sdks/image-metadata)
This article takes a closer look at the types of metadata available for images and the values they might return.

[Asset CDN](https://www.sanity.io/docs/apis-and-sdks/asset-cdn)
Describes the CDN used for delivering assets

#### Command Line Interface

[Introduction to the CLI](https://www.sanity.io/docs/apis-and-sdks/cli)
Build, deploy, init plugin boilerplate, run scripts, and wrangle datasets and webhooks, all from the command line

[Import data](https://www.sanity.io/docs/content-lake/importing-data)
How to go about importing data in bulk, including file and image assets.

[CLI configuration](https://www.sanity.io/docs/cli-reference/cli-config)
Wrangle datasets and webhooks, initialize plugin boilerplate code, build and deploy, all from the command line