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What Is llms.txt and Should Your Site Have One?

AI agents can read ordinary web pages, but complex websites rarely make the job easy. Navigation, scripts, advertising, cookie notices, and repeated page elements add material that an agent does not need.

What Is llms.txt and Should Your Site Have One?

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AI agents can read ordinary web pages, but complex websites rarely make the job easy.

Navigation, scripts, advertising, cookie notices, and repeated page elements add material that an agent does not need.

Old and new product versions can sit beside each other.

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AI agents can read ordinary web pages, but complex websites rarely make the job easy. Navigation, scripts, advertising, cookie notices, and repeated page elements add material that an agent does not need. Documentation may be split across hundreds of URLs.

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