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Comment by reddalo

13 hours ago

I wish people would follow this, instead of coming up with new standards in the root namespace. "llms.txt" [1] comes to mind, for example.

Let's stop polluting the root of a domain!

[1] https://llmstxt.org/

LLMs.txt is also nonsense since it isn't adopted by any of the major AI players.

  • Google has recently added `llms.txt` to Chrome's Lighthouse check for agentic browsing (https://searchengineland.com/google-llms-txt-chrome-lighthou...), so adoption may be coming. Admittedly, I put more faith in

      <link rel="alternate" type="text/markdown" href="https://example.com/foo.md" title="Markdown version of the &lt;Foo&gt; page">
    

    that I copied from Gwern.net. This convention is discoverable (just read the HTML) and naturally adapts to any website size and structure.

    I have created an `llms.txt` for my website anyhow. I use a fixed LLM prompt to generate it from the internal links in `index.md`.

  • To be fair, "not adopted by any major AI player" is probably the most web-standard-compliant phase of a new web standard.