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title: "Introduction to LumiCode"
slug: "introduction-to-lumicode"
updated: 2026-10-21T19:46:58Z
published: 2026-10-21T19:46:58Z
canonical: "support.lusid.com/introduction-to-lumicode"
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://support.lusid.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Introduction to LumiCode

LumiCode puts everything you do in Luminesce into one fast, keyboard-driven terminal tool. You can write SQL with code completion that knows your catalog, explore and chart the results, ask [Candela](/v1/docs/candela-ai) for help, and find out exactly why a query failed, all in the same place.

## What you can do with LumiCode

- **Write and run SQL** with syntax colouring, error highlighting, and completion for every provider, field and function you have access to.
- **Explore results** row by row, grouped with totals, as statistics, or as one of more than a dozen kinds of chart.
- **Ask Candela**, FINBOURNE's AI agent, to explain or improve a query, then run its suggestions in one step.
- **Browse your catalog** of providers and views, including what each view is built from and what depends on it.
- **Search your history** of queries, API calls and access checks, and diagnose any query run in depth.
- **Work with other FINBOURNE services**: Drive, Saved Queries in Workspaces, and the Configuration Store.
- **Download other Luminesce binaries**, such as provider hosts and drivers, and keep LumiCode itself up to date.

## Where to start

1. [How do I install LumiCode?](/v1/docs/how-do-i-install-lumicode) Install LumiCode and sign in. It takes a few minutes.
2. [Getting started with LumiCode](/v1/docs/getting-started-with-lumicode). Run, explore, chart and save your first query in about fifteen minutes.
3. [A tour of LumiCode](/v1/docs/a-tour-of-lumicode). See its main features, one screen at a time.
4. [LumiCode Commands](/v1/docs/lumicode-commands). Look up any command in full.

In LumiCode itself, type `/help` at any time for a list of every command, or `/help` followed by a command's name for its full help.

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**Note:** Candela is currently available to some customers only. Everything else in LumiCode works without it, and LumiCode tells you if Candela isn't available in your domain.