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What is Yertle?

Yertle is a collaborative visual workspace for designing, documenting, and exploring software systems. It combines a Git-like content-addressing backend with a real-time visual canvas, giving teams the power to model complex architectures with full version history, branching, and merging. Think of it as GitHub for system architecture diagrams — every change is a commit, every branch is a parallel exploration, and every node is a versioned, queryable object.

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Why an API and docs?

This documentation site is for developers building on top of Yertle. You can:
  • Script your workspace with the Yertle CLI
  • Build custom integrations using the REST API
Everything you can do in the Yertle web app, you can do programmatically.

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Where to go next

Quickstart

Get from zero to your first API call in five minutes.

Core Concepts

Understand orgs, nodes, branches, commits, and the Git-like model.

Authentication

Learn how to authenticate API requests with Personal Access Tokens.

API Reference

Browse every endpoint with request/response schemas and examples.

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Open source tools

The Yertle CLI is open source on GitHub: Contributions welcome.