# Developer Documentation and Guides

If you're looking for User Documentation & Guides, visit [docs.ipfs.tech](https://docs.ipfs.tech/).

If you're experiencing an issue with IPFS, please [file an issue](https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/issues/new/choose) in this repository.

## Configuration

- [Configuration reference](config.md)
  - [Datastore configuration](datastores.md)
  - [Experimental features](experimental-features.md)
- [Environment variables](environment-variables.md)

## Running Kubo

- [Gateway configuration](gateway.md)
- [Delegated routing](delegated-routing.md)
- [Content blocking](content-blocking.md) (for public node operators)
- [libp2p resource management](libp2p-resource-management.md)
- [Mounting IPFS with FUSE](fuse.md)

## Metrics & Monitoring

- [Prometheus metrics](metrics.md)
- [Telemetry plugin](telemetry.md)
- [Provider statistics](provide-stats.md)
- [Performance debugging](debug-guide.md)

## Development

- **[Developer Guide](developer-guide.md)** - prerequisites, build, test, and contribute
- **[AGENTS.md](../AGENTS.md)** - instructions for AI coding agents
- Contributing Guidelines [for IPFS projects](https://github.com/ipfs/community/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) and for [Go code specifically](https://github.com/ipfs/community/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING_GO.md)
- [Building on Windows](windows.md)
- [Customizing Kubo](customizing.md)
- [Installing plugins](plugins.md)
- [Release checklist](releases.md)

## Guides

- [Transferring files over IPFS](file-transfer.md)
- [How to implement an API client](implement-api-bindings.md)
- [HTTP/RPC clients](http-rpc-clients.md)
- [Websocket transports](transports.md)
- [Command completion](command-completion.md)

## Production

- [Reverse proxy setup](production/reverse-proxy.md)

## Specifications

- [Repository structure](specifications/repository.md)
- [Filesystem datastore](specifications/repository_fs.md)
- [Keystore](specifications/keystore.md)

## Examples

- [Kubo as a library](examples/kubo-as-a-library/README.md)