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Glossary

llms.txt

A proposed file at the root of a site that hands a model a clean index of the pages worth reading, in Markdown.

The idea is the same as robots.txt but for reading rather than crawling: a short, curated map that saves a model from parsing navigation, banners, and boilerplate to find the documentation.

It is a convention, not a standard, and no crawler is obliged to honour it. Publishing one costs a file; treating it as a guarantee that models will read only what you listed does not follow.