# Developer Docs Documentation

> The Developer Docs is where you'll find comprehensive guides and documentation to help you start working with Bob as quickly as possible.

Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://apidocs.hibob.com/llms.txt. Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. Append .md to any documentation page URL to get its markdown version.

## Guides: Accessing Employee Data
- [Read employee data](https://apidocs.hibob.com/docs/how-to-read-employee-data.md): Learn how to retrieve and process employee data using Bob’s API
- [People read API contract](https://apidocs.hibob.com/docs/people-read-api-contract.md): Request and response rules for POST /people/search and POST /people/{identifier} — field IDs, permissions, filters, no pagination (full result set), silent omissions, and payload shapes.
- [Update employee data](https://apidocs.hibob.com/docs/update-employee-data.md): Learn how to update employee data fields using Bob’s API
- [Create an employee](https://apidocs.hibob.com/docs/create-employee.md): Learn how to update employee data fields using Bob’s API
- [Categories and permissions](https://apidocs.hibob.com/docs/categories-and-permissions.md): Understand how to set service user permissions to fields and categories
- [Fields and lists metadata](https://apidocs.hibob.com/docs/fields-metadata.md): Learn how to use field metadata to efficiently extract and manage field data.
- [Employee tables and custom tables](https://apidocs.hibob.com/docs/additional-employee-data.md): Learn how to retrieve employee data stored in tables
- [Employee data API: Field level permissions](https://apidocs.hibob.com/docs/employee-data-api-field-level-permissions.md): Learn how field-level permissions affect the public API