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name: doccano description: "Operate doccano for text annotation, dataset import/export, auto-labeling, deployment, and repo maintenance." metadata: disco-role: operating disable-model-invocation: true license: MIT

doccano

doccano is a text annotation platform with a Django backend, a Nuxt frontend, and CLI/deployment entry points for local, Docker, and cloud use.

Use this skill when a task mentions doccano itself, project/label/member workflows, dataset import or export, auto-labeling, deployment, or repository maintenance for this checkout.

How to route

Route	Read when
sub-skills/setup-and-deploy/	You need install, initialize, run, package, Docker, or cloud deployment guidance.
sub-skills/project-annotation/	You need project creation, label setup, members, comments, annotation, cloning, or metrics.
sub-skills/data-transfer/	You need dataset import/export formats, validation, encodings, or format-specific troubleshooting.
sub-skills/auto-labeling/	You need template selection, request testing, response mapping, label mapping, or auto-labeling activation.

Start here

• New users usually start with sub-skills/setup-and-deploy/SKILL.md.
• If the request is about the running app, route to the workflow sub-skill that matches the task family first, then read the shared references listed below.
• If the request is about editing the source checkout, package build, or tests, keep python-repository-maintenance in mind and start with sub-skills/setup-and-deploy/SKILL.md for the build/runtime entry points.

Safe minimal check

Use the installed package and CLI before deeper work:

pip install doccano
python -I -c "import backend; import backend.cli; print(backend.__file__)"
doccano --help

If the package was already installed, python -m pip check is a useful follow-up health check.

Shared references

• Read references/overview.md for the repo map and major surfaces.
• Read references/task-types.md when you need the supported project types or their annotation shapes.
• Read references/cli-reference.md for the command list and environment variables.
• Read references/troubleshooting.md for cross-cutting install, runtime, and validation failures.
• Read references/repo-provenance.md before deciding whether the skill is stale.
• Read references/repo-routing-metadata.json when you need the routing contract consumed by repo-skills-router.
• Use scripts/cli-smoke.sh for a fast install-and-CLI sanity check.

Working rules

• Keep runtime guidance self-contained inside this skill tree.
• Do not point future agents back to the original checkout for commands that can be bundled here.
• Prefer the nearest sub-skill for workflow details and keep this router short.
• Use the repo-maintenance scenario only for source edits, tests, packaging, or contributor workflows.