llms.txt for AI discovery
The generated llms.txt and llms-full.txt files that help AI assistants discover your key pages.
llms.txt is an emerging convention — like robots.txt, but for AI. It’s a plain-text index
at the root of your site that tells answer engines what you are and points them at your key
pages. AskThis generates it from your onboarding scan.
Two files
AskThis serves two versions, both public and text/plain:
# Index: your site summary + a curated list of key pages
curl https://api.askthis.io/api/v1/sites/cq_8f2a/llms.txt
# Full: the index plus a one-line summary of each page inlined
curl https://api.askthis.io/api/v1/sites/cq_8f2a/llms-full.txt
They’re built from your scanned pages (title, URL, page type, and each page’s AI Graph summary), following the llmstxt.org format: an H1 site name, a short description, then sections of links.
Serving it from your domain
Point your site’s /llms.txt at the generated file, two ways:
- Proxy / redirect
https://yoursite.com/llms.txtto the AskThis endpoint (cache-friendly, always current). - Snapshot the output into a static file you deploy, and refresh it after big content changes.
How it complements AI Graph tags
AI Graph tags tell an engine how to read a page it already
landed on; llms.txt helps it discover which pages to read in the first place. The full
reference is in the developer docs.