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title: llms.txt format and what it is for
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updated_at: 2026-09-10T08:41:19.723Z
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**Short answer.** `/llms.txt` is a Markdown file at the site root: an H1 with the site name, a blockquote summary, then H2 sections of links with one-line descriptions. `/llms-full.txt` optionally concatenates the linked content. It helps agents and tooling navigate a site; as of 2026 no major answer engine reads it at inference time, so it is not a citation lever.

## Template

```markdown
# Site name

> One-paragraph summary of what the site is.

## Docs
- [Getting started](https://example.com/start.md): How to make the first call
- [API reference](https://example.com/api.md): Every endpoint

## Optional
- [Changelog](https://example.com/changelog.md): Release history
```

## Details

- Link to Markdown twins of pages (append `.md`) so agents can fetch clean text.
- Adoption is around 10% of sites, mostly developer documentation.
- Crawler logs show GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot fetch HTML and rarely request the file.

## Sources

- [llmstxt.org](https://llmstxt.org); crawler log analyses summarized in [Limy's 2026 guide](https://limy.ai/blog/llms-txt-in-2026-the-full-guide) (checked 2026-09-10).