# UiPath Cartographer Documentation > Complete documentation for UiPath Cartographer This file contains links to documentation sections following the llmstxt.org standard. ## Table of Contents - [Cartographer introduction](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/cartographer/index.md): Let's discover **Cartographer in less than 5 minutes**. - [August 2026](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/release-notes/august-2026.md): August 2026 release notes for Cartographer. - [October 2026](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/release-notes/october-2026.md): October 2026 release notes for Cartographer. - [September 2026](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/release-notes/september-2026.md): September 2026 release notes for Cartographer. - [Achievements settings](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/achievements-settings.md): Milestones, streaks, and rarity tiers tracked as you complete tasks, make recordings, and install skills. - [Add-ons and Integrations](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/addons-and-integrations.md): Reference for Cartographer's Add-ons & Integrations area — skills, tools, plugins, MCP servers, connections, credential assets, and hooks. - [Apps & defaults settings](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/apps-and-defaults-settings.md): Default app assignments for file openers, mail and calendar handlers, and browser profiles Cartographer uses for each kind of work. - [AS-IS (Current Process) documentation](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/as-is-documentation.md): The Discovery and Define as-is stages in Cartographer, covering the interview structure, confirming the process map, and generating an AS-IS document. - [Backup and restore](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/backup-and-restore.md): Back up and restore your Cartographer settings, including secure settings tied to your user account and machine. - [Behavior preferences](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/behavior-preferences.md): Work profile, communication style, proactivity, action transparency, and custom preferences that configure how Cartographer communicates and acts. - [Governance with Automation Ops](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/centralized-configuration.md): Centralized enforcement of Cartographer's security controls through UiPath Automation Ops, including policy targeting and the recommended baseline ... - [Choosing the LLM model](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/choosing-the-llm-model.md): Select which AI model processes your requests in Cartographer, from the models your organization has enabled. - [Configuring external tools with MCP servers](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/configuring-external-tools-with-mcp-servers.md): Add, manage, and configure MCP servers for Cartographer, including custom servers, settings.json, and MCP Apps. - [Connecting to popular business applications](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/connecting-to-popular-business-applications.md): Create, test, filter, and revoke Integration Service connections for Cartographer. - [Connections reference](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/connections.md): Reference for the Connections area in Cartographer — managing UiPath Integration Service connections used by skills. - [Context grounding settings](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/context-grounding-settings.md): Orchestrator-backed Context Grounding indexes available to the agent, managed from the Context grounding tab. Beta. - [Credential assets reference](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/credential-assets.md): Reference for the Credential assets area in Cartographer — managing Orchestrator assets and credentials for automated tasks. - [Data security and compliance](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/data-and-compliance.md): Cartographer's redaction layer, data handling, network requirements, and compliance certifications. - [Delegating a task](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/delegating-a-task.md): Request input from a teammate on a Cartographer business process and review their reply before accepting it into the process. - [Extending functionality with plugins](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/extending-functionality-with-plugins.md): Add and manage plugins in Cartographer, from Add-ons & Integrations. - [General settings](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/general-settings.md): Account, language, task storage, appearance, recording, and reset options in the General settings tab. - [Generating an SDD](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/generating-an-sdd.md): Generate a Solution Design Document (SDD) from a confirmed PDD, the build-ready specification developers and Coding Agents use to build the automat... - [Hooks reference](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/hooks.md): Reference for the Hooks area in Cartographer — running a shell command at a specific point in the agent's lifecycle. - [Installation](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/installation.md): Install Cartographer through the shared Studio, Assistant, and Robot installer, and set up your UiPath account to get started. - [Introduction](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/introduction.md): What Cartographer does, how it works, and how it fits your organization's controls and models. - [Key concepts](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/key-concepts.md): Core terminology used throughout the Cartographer documentation, including business processes, business tasks, AS-IS/TO-BE, PDD, and SDD. - [Keyboard shortcuts settings](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/keyboard-shortcuts-settings.md): Local and global keyboard shortcuts for Cartographer, and how to customize them. - [Knowledge settings](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/knowledge-settings.md): Knowledge Cartographer saves from your conversations, including editing, categorizing, and deleting entries. - [Local security configuration](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/local-security-configuration.md): Security controls an individual user sets directly from the chatbox — approval mode, screen context, and execution mode — plus OS-level permissions... - [MCP servers reference](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/mcp-servers.md): Reference for the MCP servers area in Cartographer — connecting MCP servers, the Orchestrator MCP catalog, and the third-party marketplace. - [Permission setting best practices](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/permission-setting-best-practices.md): Recommendations for configuring Cartographer permissions securely, by role — individual users, IT administrators, and developers creating skills. - [Plugins reference](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/plugins.md): Reference for plugins in Delegate and Cartographer — repository sources, available plugins, and how plugins relate to skills, MCP servers, credenti... - [Privacy settings](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/privacy-settings.md): Diagnostic data Cartographer sends to UiPath, including usage analytics, crash reports, and essential telemetry. - [Providing documents to Cartographer](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/providing-documents-to-cartographer.md): Upload SOPs, process diagrams, and other source documents to Cartographer to accelerate the AS-IS interview. - [Recording your tasks](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/recording-your-tasks.md): Record yourself performing a task, then turn the recording into a routine, a knowledge skill, AS-IS documentation, or a business task. - [Recordings settings](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/recordings-settings.md): Screen recordings of a task you perform, for use afterward as the basis for a routine, a skill, or PDD source material. - [Refining your PDD and the quality checklist](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/refining-and-quality-checklist.md): Refinement patterns for updating a generated Process Design Document (PDD) through conversation, and the quality checklist to complete before handoff. - [Repeating work with Routines](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/routines.md): Create, manage, and run Routines in Cartographer to save reusable task workflows and execute them with a single click. - [Security overview](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/security-overview.md): Authorization and restriction controls in Cartographer, including security modes, for teams evaluating it before deployment. - [Security settings reference](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/security-settings.md): Fine-grained local security controls in Cartographer — tool permissions, terminal and files, protected files, and UI automation — that extend beyon... - [Sending SDDs to Automation Hub](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/sending-sdds-to-automation-hub.md): Publish an approved SDD and its companion PDD from Cartographer straight to UiPath Automation Hub, and review the result there. - [Settings file locations](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/settings-file-locations.md): Where Cartographer stores its settings, secure settings, and other configuration files on disk, for power users who want to edit or back them up di... - [Settings reference](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/settings-reference.md): All settings available in Cartographer, organized by tab, including storage locations and configuration options for appearance, behavior, and integ... - [Sharing feedback with UiPath](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/sharing-feedback-with-uipath.md): Ways to share product feedback, ask questions, or get support on Cartographer — through your account team, the Insider Portal, Customer Portal, or ... - [Sharing skills with your team](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/sharing-skills-with-your-team.md): Publish, install, review, and share skills and routines in Cartographer, including permissions and how feeds work. - [Skills reference](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/skills.md): Reference for the Skills area in Cartographer — the Skills, Discover skills, and Review queue views. - [The Cartographer interface](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/the-cartographer-interface.md): A tour of the Cartographer interface, including the sidebar, chat box, and the additional panels available inside a project. - [TO-BE design and PDD generation](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/to-be-design-and-pdd-generation.md): The Design to-be and Architect process stages in Cartographer, covering automation mode assignment, the future-state process map, and generating th... - [Tools reference](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/tools.md): Reference for the Tools area in Cartographer — local tools, web tools, AI tools, agents, and knowledge. - [Troubleshooting](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/troubleshooting.md): Solutions for common Cartographer issues, including screen context errors, permission problems on macOS and Windows, business process issues, and c... - [Usage and limits](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/usage-and-limits.md): How the Cartographer usage allowance works, where to check your remaining capacity, and what happens when you reach your limit. - [Working with existing automations](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/working-with-existing-automations.md): Use this workflow to weave existing RPA bots into one coordinated, end-to-end process instead of rebuilding them. - [Working with external data and applications](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/working-with-external-data-and-applications.md): Integration Service connectors and MCP servers for connecting Cartographer to your business applications, services, and tools. - [Your first Cartographer tasks](https://docs.uipath.com/cartographer/standalone/latest/user-guide/your-first-cartographer-tasks.md): Prepare for a Cartographer session, configure the recommended model and behavior settings, and start a business process.