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# User Guide

> **Status:** Partially migrated. The quickstart, web-dashboard reference, and Discord conversation workflow are current.

This book is the canonical home for end-user workflows, user-visible behavior, product concepts, and user troubleshooting. Keep installation, deployment, security controls, and recovery procedures in [`ADMIN-GUIDE/`](../ADMIN-GUIDE/); keep implementation detail in [`DEVELOPER-GUIDE/`](../DEVELOPER-GUIDE/).

## Start here

- [Documentation atlas](../README.md) — placement rules and source-of-truth boundaries.
- [Documentation sitemap](../SITEMAP.md) — resolvable current navigation and authority-gated migration summary.
- [Quickstart](getting-started/quickstart.md) — install Mosaic, complete setup, and launch a session.
- [Web dashboard](product/web-dashboard.md) — current routes, navigation, chat persistence, projects/tasks views, settings, and admin behavior.
- [Discord conversations](workflows/discord-conversations.md) — current authorized parent-channel, thread, attachment, and control workflow.

## Chapter map

| Chapter            | Scope                                                         | Status                                               |
| ------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------- |
| `getting-started/` | First-use setup, orientation, and quickstarts.                | Quickstart is current; additional pages are planned. |
| `concepts/`        | User-facing terminology, product concepts, and mental models. | Scaffold only.                                       |
| `workflows/`       | Task-oriented procedures for using Mosaic Stack.              | Discord conversation workflow is current.            |
| `product/`         | Current product surfaces and visible behavior.                | Web dashboard reference is current.                  |
| `troubleshooting/` | User-visible failures, diagnostics, and fixes.                | Scaffold only.                                       |

### Current pages

- [Quickstart](getting-started/quickstart.md) — the verified installed-CLI first-use path.
- [Web dashboard](product/web-dashboard.md) — verified current Next.js dashboard behavior and limitations.
- [Discord conversations](workflows/discord-conversations.md) — verified current Discord user workflow.

Every promoted page must be added to this index and to [`SITEMAP.md`](../SITEMAP.md) in the same migration slice.

## Migration backlog — not current navigation

These are source candidates, not current user guidance:

- `_old_structure/guides/user-guide.md` — quarantined historical source; verify every claim before promotion. See the [documentation catalog](../reports/documentation/2026-08-10-docs-catalog-audit.md) for its disposition.
- The former root `QUICKSTART.md` was an empty placeholder and has been replaced by the current page above.

Do not link to the quarantine as a current user path. Create a new page only after classifying its audience, status, and evidence in the migration report.

## Authoring boundary

New user-facing documentation belongs under one of the chapter directories above. Use a lowercase kebab-case page name, state whether commands are current or held, and link back to this index plus related canonical sources.

## Related

- [[README|Documentation contract]]
- [[PRD|Product requirements]]
