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Open the llms.txt specification at llmstxt.org.
Read the proposal before publishing. Its format resembles a Markdown resource summary; vendor use is separate from the format.
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llms.txt is a voluntary proposal for a text file at a domain root. Confirm current vendor support and hosting requirements before deciding whether to publish it.
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Read the proposal before publishing. Its format resembles a Markdown resource summary; vendor use is separate from the format.
Follow the proposal's heading, summary, and grouped-link format. Select resources by a documented rule, keep descriptions factual, and use only as many lines as the list needs.
Use a code editor or plain text editor. Save with the exact filename "llms.txt" (lowercase, no extension changes). UTF-8 encoding. Line endings: LF (Unix) preferred but CRLF (Windows) also works.
Most hosting platforms (Cloudflare Pages, Netlify, Vercel, Shopify, WordPress) let you upload files to the domain root. The result should be accessible at yourdomain.com/llms.txt. No subfolder.
You should see the plain text file content. If you see a 404 or an HTML page, the file is in the wrong location. Most often the build is moving the file from a subfolder to the actual root.
Publish another file only when a documented consumer or internal requirement defines its format and use.
If a documented consumer and current evidence justify the file, Stan Consulting can scope deployment from the hosting constraint. Unsupported files are not automatic requirements.
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