llms-txtlisted

# llms.txt A single Markdown file at `/llms.txt` that tells an AI assistant what a site is and where the good pages are. It exists because HTML is noisy — navigation, cookie banners, footers, scripts — and a model reading a page has to guess what matters. `llms.txt` removes the guessing. It is a convention, not a standard. No crawler is required to read it. Write one anyway: it costs ten minutes, it is read by a growing number of assistants and tools, and the act of writing it forces you to state plainly what the site is for. ## The format Strict Markdown, in this order. The structure is the contract — a parser looks for exactly this shape. ```markdown # Site or business name > One sentence saying what this is. Concrete. No marketing adjectives. Optional free prose. A short paragraph or two of context that does not fit a link — what the business does, who it serves, where it operates, what makes it different. Keep it factual. ## Section name - [Page title](https://example.com/page): what a reader gets from this page - [Another page](https://example.com/other): one clause, not a sentence ## Optional - [Lower-priority page](https://example.com/archive): things a model can skip if short on space ``` Rules that actually matter: 1. **One `# H1`**, the name. First line of the file. 2. **A `>` blockquote directly after it**, one sentence. This is the line most likely to be quoted back verbatim, so write it like a caption, not a slogan. 3. **`##` sections** group the