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| --------- | -------- |
| [api](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/tree/main/api) | This `api` package provides an official Go API client for Consul, which is also used by Consul's [CLI](https://www.consul.io/docs/commands/index.html) commands to communicate with the local Consul agent. |
| [api/watch](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/tree/main/api/watch) | This has implementation details for Consul's [watches](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/watches.html), used both internally to Consul and by the [watch CLI command](https://www.consul.io/docs/commands/watch.html). |
| [website](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/tree/main/website) | This has the full source code for [consul.io](https://www.consul.io/). Pull requests can update the source code and Consul's documentation all together. |

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@ -36,6 +36,36 @@ found in the public [user documentation].
Also see the [FAQ](./faq.md).
## Important Directories
Most top level directories contain Go source code. The directories listed below
contain other important source related to Consul.
* [ui] contains the source code for the Consul UI.
* [website] contains the source for [consul.io](https://www.consul.io/). A pull requests
can update the source code and Consul's documentation at the same time.
* [.circleci] and [.github] contain the source for our CI and GitHub repository
automation.
* [.changelog] contains markdown files that are used by [hashicorp/go-changelog] to produce the
[CHANGELOG.md].
* [build-support] contains bash functions and scripts used to automate.
development tasks. Generally these scripts are called from the [GNUmakefile].
* [grafana] contains the source for a [Grafana dashboard] that can be used to
monitor Consul.
[ui]: https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/tree/main/ui
[website]: https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/tree/main/website
[.circleci]: https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/tree/main/.circleci
[.github]: https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/tree/main/.github
[.changelog]: https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/tree/main/.changelog
[hashicorp/go-changelog]: https://github.com/hashicorp/go-changelog
[CHANGELOG.md]: https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
[build-support]: https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/tree/main/build-support
[GNUmakefile]: https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/tree/main/GNUmakefile
[Grafana dashboard]: https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards
[grafana]: https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/tree/main/grafana
## Contributing to these docs
This section is meta documentation about contributing to these docs.