> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.tied.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Writing and publishing articles > The editor, draft state, authorship and SEO. An article needs three things to exist at all: a title, content, and an author. Everything else — category, position, translations, SEO fields — sits on top of that minimum. ## Writing The content editor is the same rich-text editor used elsewhere in the dashboard, not a separate Markdown dialect to learn. Formatting, links and images work the way they already do when you're composing a reply. Every new article is created as a draft, regardless of what status you try to set on creation — publishing is always a separate, deliberate second step. ## States | State | Visible publicly | Agent can answer from it | | - | - | - | | `draft` | No | No | | `published` | Yes | Yes | | `archived` | No | No | **Draft and archived look the same from the outside, but they mean opposite things.** Draft is "not ready yet." Archived is "was ready, isn't anymore." Both are invisible to readers and to your AI agent — there's no separate publish step for the agent to catch up on, and no lag between what a customer sees and what the agent can cite. The moment you archive, that content stops being answerable. ## Authorship Every article belongs to a `User` — an agent on your team — and that field is required, not decorative. You can't save an article with no author, and reassigning one later is an explicit edit, not a side effect of someone else touching the content. ## SEO fields Separate from the content itself, an article carries a small properties panel backed by a single `meta` field: `meta.title`, `meta.description`, and `meta.tags` — one JSON column, not three separate database columns. These feed the page's title and description for search engines and link previews — they don't change anything a reader sees on the page itself. ## Ordering and search Articles carry a position for manual ordering within a category, and can be reordered as a batch. Outside of a specific category view, the default list order is most-recently-updated first. Search covers title, description and content together, weighted so a match in the title ranks above the same match buried in the body — and long articles don't win just by repeating a term more often. ## Next Where an article's locale and position come from. Turning one article into several language versions. Pointing an agent at what you just published. Human agents using the same content in the inbox. This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.