llms.txt
Definition: A proposed standard (llmstxt.org) — a markdown file at the root of a site that tells LLMs how to find your content.
What it is
llms.txt is to AI engines what robots.txt is to search crawlers. Hosted at /llms.txt, it provides a concise, structured markdown summary of what a site is, key URLs, and pointers to long-form content (often /llms-full.txt). The standard is community-driven and informally adopted by major AI products.
Why it matters
An llms.txt file gives AI ingestion pipelines a clean, citable summary instead of forcing them to crawl and infer.
Layer UI in context
layerui.io publishes both /llms.txt (concise index) and /llms-full.txt (full markdown corpus) for AI engine consumption.
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