How to add an llms.txt file to your site

Before you start

• A clear summary of what the site is for
• Your most important page URLs

The steps

1. 1

   Step 1: Create the file at the root

   At /llms.txt, served as text or Markdown.

2. 2

   Step 2: Open with an H1 and one summary line

   What the site is, in a sentence somebody unfamiliar would understand.

3. 3

   Step 3: Add sections for what you offer

   Services with prices, guides, contact details. Use headings and links, not prose paragraphs.

4. 4

   Step 4: Link to real URLs

   Absolute, canonical, and currently returning 200. A dead link here is worse than the missing file.

5. 5

   Step 5: Generate it from your data

   So prices and page lists cannot drift from the site itself as content changes.

6. 6

   Step 6: Verify it loads

   Fetch it and confirm a 200 with the right content type.

Be honest about the evidence

No major AI provider has confirmed it reads llms.txt. It is a proposal that gained attention rather than an adopted standard, and anyone presenting it as a requirement is overselling. Publish it because it is cheap and might help, not because it is expected to.

Generate it, do not maintain it

A hand-written llms.txt goes stale the first time prices change. This site’s version is generated from the same data that renders the pricing pages, which is the difference between a file that stays accurate and one that quietly contradicts the site.

The background behind this

llms.txt: a fair assessment of a file nobody is obliged to read covers the reasoning in about 2 minutes — free, ungated, written from client work.

Who wrote this

Anas Bin Masud builds e-commerce sites and does technical SEO for businesses in the UK, Canada, Ireland and Pakistan. These procedures are the ones I run on client work, written down rather than invented — including the ones where the honest answer is that the fix is not available on your current hosting.