- Article
RAG vs. MCP: when to use what for your content system
RAG and MCP solve different problems for AI agents. Learn the difference, when to use each, and how they work together in content systems.
Knut Melvær
Profile page of Knut Melvær
Knut's headline: Knut is a principal developer marketing manager at Sanity.io
Knut's email: knut@sanity.io
Knut's job title: Principal Developer Marketing Manager at Sanity.io
Knut's location: Norway
Knut's website: www.sanity.io
Joined: May 2017
Latest contributions
- Article
Your CMS is already an AI backend. Here's how to treat it like one.
You're already sitting on structured, semantically rich data with clear provenance and governance. The question is whether you're managing it like it.
Knut Melvær
- Article
Connecting LLMs to your CMS
Wire LLMs into Sanity Studio — covering RAG with GROQ, Agent Actions for agentic writes, Compute for event-driven automation, and MCP for direct agent access.
Knut Melvær
- Blog post
Build a prototype with Claude Code that your whole team can edit
You built a compelling proof of concept using AI. Now, let’s fix it so every content change doesn’t need to go through you.
Knut Melvær
- Article
Automate your content audits with AI
Find stale pages, missing metadata, and terminology drift. Fix them in the same session. All changes staged as drafts.
- Article
An AI shopping assistant that actually checks inventory
AI shopping assistant that queries your catalog with real business constraints, not similarity scores. Validates inventory before recommending products.
- Blog post
Sanity TypeGen is now generally available
TypeGen generates exact TypeScript types from your schemas and queries. So AI tools stop guessing and developers stop debugging phantom fields.
- Article
AI translations that follow your terminology
Translate structured content field-by-field with Agent Actions. Preserve references, slugs, and schema integrity with human review.
First Published Timestamp Function
Featured contributionOfficial(made by Sanity team)
Automatically track when content was first published with a timestamp that sets once and never overwrites, providing reliable publication history for analytics and editorial workflows.
Knut Melvær
Automatically tag blog posts
Featured contributionOfficial(made by Sanity team)
AI-powered automatic tagging for Sanity blog posts that analyzes content to generate 3 relevant tags, maintaining consistency by reusing existing tags from your content library.
- Tool
The official Sanity integration for Astro
Featured contribution
Official(made by Sanity team)
Integrate content from Sanity on Astro websites
- Guide
Visual Editing with Next.js App Router and Sanity Studio
Official(made by Sanity team)
Setup "Live by Default" fetches and interactive live preview with Presentation in Sanity Studio
- Article
Cloud CMS explained: 5 benefits of making the switch
Cloud CMSes are the modern alternative to legacy self-hosted CMSes. In 2026, they've become the foundation for AI-powered content operations.
Knut Melvær
- Template
Clean Angular + Sanity app
Official(made by Sanity team)
A minimal Angular SPA app with Sanity Studio.
Knut Melvær
- Template
Clean Nuxt + Sanity app
Official(made by Sanity team)
A minimal Nuxt app with Sanity Studio.
- Article
The Composable Stack: 5 Frontend Frameworks To Consider
Want to build with new technologies but are unsure where to start? This guide introduces 5 promising front end frameworks and how they integrate with Sanity.
Knut Melvær
- Template
Clean Astro + Sanity app
Official(made by Sanity team)
A minimal Astro app with Sanity Studio.
- Guide
Build your blog with Astro and Sanity
A complete guide to setting up your blog using Astro and Sanity
- Guide
How to build an input component for Sanity Studio v3
This guide teaches how to add a custom input component to a field for Sanity Studio v3
Knut Melvær
- Article
Headless CMS Explained
Learn about headless Content Management Systems: what they are, how they work, and how they differ from traditional CMSes like WordPress.
Knut Melvær
Get current post, previous post, and next post
This can be used for blogs or articles where you want to possibly display next and previous article buttons
Anchored Headings for Portable Text
How to automatically generate linked headings with a custom serializer
Knut Melvær
Migrate plain text field to Portable Text
Migration script to convert plain text to block content across your content lake
Knut Melvær
- Guide
GROQ-Powered Webhooks – Intro to Projections
A thorough intro to using GROQ-projections in a webhook contest
- Guide
GROQ-Powered Webhooks – Intro to Filters
A thorough intro to using GROQ-filters in a webhook-context
Frequently asked questions
Simple content type for a question and answer pattern
Knut Melvær
Rich quotations in Portable Text
Schemas for adding richer quotes within Portable Text
Knut Melvær
- Guide
Visual Editing with Next.js Pages Router and Sanity Studio
Setup interactive live preview with Presentation in a Next.js pages router application
Word count and reading time estimation for GROQ and Portable Text
Make a rough calculation of word count and reading time for your Portable Text fields
Knut Melvær
- Tool
NextAuth Sanity
NextAuth Adapter and Provider for Sanity
- Guide
Tailoring content for different audiences
How to deliver better content experiences across cultures, languages, and tastes.
- Guide
Hierarchies, Graphs, and Navigation
Hierarchies are handy for organizing, but they can also fence you in. Learn how to build them, when to use them, and why you might want to treat navigation as a separate concern.
Breaks for Portable Text
How to add different types of “breaks” for Portable Text that can be translated to horizontal rules, “read more”, sections, chapters, and so on.
Knut Melvær
How to list and group image asset documents
Add lists of image assets based on information in the asset document using the Structure Builder API
Knut Melvær
Migration script for document types
This migration scripts lets you migrate documents to a new type.
Knut Melvær
Initial value template with current user
Use data for the current logged in user as initial values in a new document
Knut Melvær
Delete documents by filter
Migration script for deleting documents based on a GROQ filter
Knut Melvær
- Guide
How to create an effective editor experience
Learn how to shape Sanity Studio to improve editor flows and content quality.
Podcast
Schemas for running a podcast backend on Sanity.io
Knut Melvær
- Guide
Deciding on fields and relationships
Official(made by Sanity team)
How to work through tricky content questions and build structures that will stand the test of time.
Heading, text, and illustration
Schema for a text with a heading and a illustration with a caption.
Knut Melvær
Nested navigation structure
Recursive schema for nested navigations
Knut Melvær
- Guide
How to use structured content for page building
Official(made by Sanity team)
Learn how to create a page builder from structured content that can withstand the test of time and redesigns.
- Guide
How to Make Taxonomy Pages With Gatsby and Sanity.io
Official(made by Sanity team)
In this tutorial, we’ll cover how to make taxonomy pages with Gatsby with structured content from Sanity.io.
This is an external link at:css-tricks.com
Knut Melvær
- Guide
How to duplicate an existing document and set the _id manually with the CLI
Official(made by Sanity team)
In this video, you'll learn how to use the Sanity CLI to duplicate an existing document and set its _id manually from a text editor.
This is an external link at:www.youtube.com
Knut Melvær
- Guide
How to create a custom asset source plugin for Sanity Studio
Official(made by Sanity team)
In this tutorial, you will learn how to make a custom asset source plugin that uses the webcam to insert a photo in the Sanity Studio’s image field.
This is an external link at:www.youtube.com
Knut Melvær
- Guide
Getting started with content modelling and structured content
Official(made by Sanity team)
In this chat, Ronald and Knut will give you some cues and pointers to how to think and approach structured content
This is an external link at:www.youtube.com
- Guide
Using Sanity for image art direction
Official(made by Sanity team)
Five cool image tricks that you can achieve with Sanity
This is an external link at:css-tricks.com
Knut Melvær
- Guide
Recreating the CodePen Gutenberg Embed Block for Sanity.io
Official(made by Sanity team)
Learn how to create a custom CodePen block with a preview for Sanity Studio, inspired by Chris Coyier’s implementation for Wordpress’ Gutenberg editor.
This is an external link at:css-tricks.com
Knut Melvær
- Guide
How To Make A Speech Synthesis Editor
Official(made by Sanity team)
Learn how to make a What You Get Is What You Hear (WYGIWYH) editor for speech synthesis using Sanity.io’s editor for Portable Text.
This is an external link at:www.smashingmagazine.com
Knut Melvær
- Guide
Deploying Sanity Studio with Vercel
Official(made by Sanity team)
This guide will walk you through how to deploy Sanity Studio with Vercel in three simple steps.
This is an external link at:vercel.com
Knut Melvær
- Guide
Getting started with initial values for new documents
Official(made by Sanity team)
Studio v2
How to get started with initial values
Knut Melvær
- Guide
How to add custom YouTube blocks to Portable Text
Official(made by Sanity team)
How to add a YouTube embed in the Studio, and render it on front ends
Knut Melvær
- Guide
Internal and external links with Portable Text
Official(made by Sanity team)
How make internal and external links with Portable Text and render them in frontends
Knut Melvær
- Guide
Introduction to Portable Text
Official(made by Sanity team)
Studio v2
Learn how Portable Text works
Knut Melvær
- Guide
Get started with the Next.js landing page website
Official(made by Sanity team)
How to get started with the Next.js and Sanity.io powered landing page website
Knut Melvær
- Guide
Get started with the Nuxt.js event website
Official(made by Sanity team)
How to get started with the Nuxt.js and Sanity.io powered event website
Knut Melvær
- Guide
Get started with the Gatsby blog
Official(made by Sanity team)
Get started with the Sanity and Gatsby blog starter project
Knut Melvær
- Guide
Get started with the Gatsby portfolio
Official(made by Sanity team)
How to get started with the Sanity and Gatsby powered portfolio website
Knut Melvær
- Tool
Document list widget
Official(made by Sanity team)
Display a list of documents in your dashboard
- Guide
How to configure schemas
Official(made by Sanity team)
A video on how to customize the schemas in a Sanity Studio
Knut Melvær
- Tool
Mux input
Featured contribution
Upload videos to Mux directly from the studio.
- Tool
Webamp
Studio v2
Run a Winamp port in your studio!
Knut Melvær
- Tool
sanity-plugin-timelinejs
Studio v2
This plugin install schemas for hosting content for Timeline.js.
Knut Melvær
- Tool
Podcast content schema
Studio v2
Podcast plugin for Sanity that creates schemas for podcasts and episodes with necessary iTunes data. Make as many podcasts with as many episodes as you want.
Knut Melvær
About Knut
Knut has written code for the web since the early 2000s. Knut has a background in the digital humanities and has worked in the intersection between user experience design and technology. He has also been a columnist, speaker, and university lecturer.
Knut joined Sanity in 2018 as their Head of Developer Relations, and has since grown the developer community, made educational content, and much more.
Knut cares a lot about making technology and programming understandable and accessible to anyone, not just developers.