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AB-014

LLMs.txt File

🔍 Discovery Pillar: Discovery Quick fix Severity: medium Est. cost: $0 Gap: documentation Fix: deterministic

What it means

Your site has an llms.txt file that provides a plain-text overview for large language models.

Why it matters

LLMs read this file to quickly understand your site without parsing HTML. It's like a README for AI.

Evidence expected

This rule is verified by:

http html Source: Website content
✗

What's wrong

No llms.txt. AI models have to parse your HTML and may miss key information.

✓

What's right

A concise llms.txt gives AI models everything they need in plain text.

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