llms.txt
Detects /llms.txt (and /llms-full.txt) at the domain root and checks its basic Markdown format
Detects a llms.txt file at your domain root (and the optional llms-full.txt companion) and checks its basic Markdown shape. llms.txt is an emerging standard that gives AI agents and answer engines a curated, machine-readable map of your most useful content — a discoverability signal alongside robots.txt and sitemap.xml.
| Rule ID | ax/llms-txt |
| Category | Agent Experience |
| Scope | Site-wide |
| Severity | info |
| Weight | 1/10 |
What it checks
The audit fetches /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt from your domain root once per crawl (next to robots.txt), so the check itself does no extra network requests. It then reports:
- Presence — whether
/llms.txtexists, its size, and whether the optional/llms-full.txtis also present. - Format — basic llmstxt.org conformance of
/llms.txt:- starts with an H1 title (
# Name), - contains at least one Markdown link,
- every link URL is well-formed (absolute or root-relative).
- starts with an H1 title (
Format problems are reported as informational notes — they never fail the audit.
Solution
Add a concise /llms.txt at your domain root. The format is plain Markdown: an H1 title, an optional blockquote summary, then sections of links to your key pages.
# Example Co
> Short summary of what this site is and who it's for.
## Docs
- [Getting started](https://example.com/docs/start): install and first run
- [API reference](https://example.com/docs/api): endpoints and types
## About
- [Pricing](https://example.com/pricing): plans and limitsOptionally add /llms-full.txt with the full text of those pages inlined, for agents that want everything in one fetch.
Enable / Disable
Disable this rule
[rules]
disable = ["ax/llms-txt"]Disable all Agent Experience rules
[rules]
disable = ["ax/*"]Enable only this rule
[rules]
enable = ["ax/llms-txt"]
disable = ["*"]