llms.txt — a proposed standard

What we recorded

Cited by the plays ai-answer-llms-txt, ai-answer-markdown-for-agents. Read 2026-11-10 (through a fetch tool that can summarise; spot-check exact figures). Jeremy Howard / Answer.AI proposal published 2024-09-03, modified 2026-08-10. Markdown at /llms.txt: H1 required, blockquote summary, H2 link lists. Claims thousands of sites publish it but cites no data on LLMs reading it.

Plays that cite it

• Ship llms.txt: a crib sheet for AI crawlers
• Hand agents the Markdown, not the layout