# Explorbot Documentation

> Explorbot explores your web app, plans tests, and runs them — no scripts required.

Explorbot is an open-source AI agent for testing web applications and APIs. It reads a running app, plans what is worth testing, executes the plan, and writes the result back as automated tests you keep in your repository. Source: https://github.com/testomatio/explorbot

## Basics

- [Getting started](https://testomat.ai/docs/explorbot/basics/getting-started/): Install to first test in ten minutes
- [Running Explorbot](https://testomat.ai/docs/explorbot/basics/running/): Interactive TUI vs headless CLI, and when to use each
- [Prerequisites](https://testomat.ai/docs/explorbot/basics/prerequisites/): Check that your app is a good fit
- [Providers](https://testomat.ai/docs/explorbot/basics/providers/): Set up an AI provider and pick models

## Web testing

- [Basics](https://testomat.ai/docs/explorbot/web-testing/basics/): The explore loop, states, and your first session
- [Customization](https://testomat.ai/docs/explorbot/web-testing/customization/): Make it work on your app: login, cookie bars, modals, test data
- [Planner](https://testomat.ai/docs/explorbot/web-testing/planner/): Tune what gets tested
- [Researcher](https://testomat.ai/docs/explorbot/web-testing/researcher/): How pages are analyzed, and how to tune it
- [Page interaction](https://testomat.ai/docs/explorbot/web-testing/page-interaction/): How agents read and act on a page
- [Automated tests](https://testomat.ai/docs/explorbot/web-testing/automated-tests/): The runnable test files you keep
- [Rerun](https://testomat.ai/docs/explorbot/web-testing/rerun/): Re-run generated tests with AI healing
- [Agents](https://testomat.ai/docs/explorbot/web-testing/agents/): What each agent does under the hood
- [Hooks](https://testomat.ai/docs/explorbot/web-testing/hooks/): Run your own code before or after an agent

## API testing

- [Basics](https://testomat.ai/docs/explorbot/api-testing/basics/): Chief and Curler, configuration, your first API test
- [Planning](https://testomat.ai/docs/explorbot/api-testing/planning/): Specs, endpoint knowledge, and planning styles
- [Running tests](https://testomat.ai/docs/explorbot/api-testing/running-tests/): Executing plans, request logs, autonomous explore

## Doc collection

- [Basics](https://testomat.ai/docs/explorbot/doc-collection/basics/): Crawl your app and generate page docs
- [Crawling](https://testomat.ai/docs/explorbot/doc-collection/crawling/): Choose what gets visited
- [Interactive mode](https://testomat.ai/docs/explorbot/doc-collection/interactive-mode/): Document behavior, not just pages

## Common workflow

These pages apply to web and API testing alike

- [Knowledge](https://testomat.ai/docs/explorbot/workflow/knowledge/): Teach Explorbot about your app
- [Application Specs](https://testomat.ai/docs/explorbot/workflow/application-spec/): Reuse versioned application documentation
- [Test plans](https://testomat.ai/docs/explorbot/workflow/test-plans/): The plan file format and how plans are reused
- [Planning styles](https://testomat.ai/docs/explorbot/workflow/planning-styles/): Normal, curious, psycho, and your own
- [Reporting](https://testomat.ai/docs/explorbot/workflow/reporting/): Local reports and Testomat.io
- [Continuous integration](https://testomat.ai/docs/explorbot/workflow/ci/): Scheduled runs with cached experience on any CI
- [Agentic usage](https://testomat.ai/docs/explorbot/workflow/agentic-usage/): Drive Explorbot from a coding agent: config-free runs and agent-written plans

## Reference

- [Commands](https://testomat.ai/docs/explorbot/reference/commands/): Every CLI and terminal command
- [Configuration](https://testomat.ai/docs/explorbot/reference/configuration/): The config file, top to bottom
- [Scripting](https://testomat.ai/docs/explorbot/reference/scripting/): The programmatic API

## Contributing

- [Contributing](https://testomat.ai/docs/explorbot/contributing/contributing/): How to contribute
- [Observability](https://testomat.ai/docs/explorbot/contributing/observability/): Trace and debug AI calls
- [Testing](https://testomat.ai/docs/explorbot/contributing/testing/): Run the test suite
- [AI integration tests](https://testomat.ai/docs/explorbot/contributing/ai-integration-tests/): How agent tests work
- [Regression tests](https://testomat.ai/docs/explorbot/contributing/regression-tests/): The real-AI e2e harness
- [Demo videos](https://testomat.ai/docs/explorbot/contributing/demo-videos/): Turn recorded sessions into demo clips
- [npm package](https://testomat.ai/docs/explorbot/contributing/npm-package/): Build and publish

## Optional

- [Docs sitemap](https://testomat.ai/docs/sitemap.xml): The same pages as XML
- [Site overview](https://testomat.ai/llms.txt): Testomat.ai products beyond Explorbot