llms.txt for AI Discoverability: Should You Add It? (opens in new tab)

You put a robots.txt on your site to tell search crawlers what to ignore. You add a sitemap.xml to help them find everything. These standards work because crawlers visit your site repeatedly — on a schedule, automatically, indefinitely. Instructions you leave in files become part of an ongoing conversation between your server and the crawler. llms.txt doesn't work like that. That's the thing most articles about it miss, and it's the reason the standard is simultaneously more limited and more ...