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title: "llms.txt"
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description: "Optimize your docs for LLMs to read and index."
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keywords: ["llms.txt", "LLM indexing", "AEO", "GEO", "content discovery"]
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---
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import { PreviewButton } from "/snippets/previewbutton.jsx"
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The [llms.txt file](https://llmstxt.org) is an industry standard that helps LLMs index content more efficiently, similar to how a sitemap helps search engines. AI tools can use this file to understand your documentation structure and find content relevant to user queries.
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Mintlify automatically hosts an `llms.txt` file at the root of your project that lists all available pages in your documentation. This file is always up to date and requires zero maintenance. You can optionally add a custom `llms.txt` file to the root of your project.
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<Note>
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If your site requires authentication to access your documentation, your `llms.txt` and `llms-full.txt` files are not available to LLMs and AI tools. LLMs and AI tools can only index publicly available content.
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</Note>
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View your `llms.txt` by appending `/llms.txt` to your documentation site's URL.
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<PreviewButton href="https://mintlify.com/docs/llms.txt">Open the llms.txt for this site.</PreviewButton>
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## llms.txt structure
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An `llms.txt` file is a plain Markdown file that contains:
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- **Site title** as an H1 heading.
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- **Structured content sections** with links and a description of each page in your documentation.
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- **API specification links** to your OpenAPI and AsyncAPI specs, if your documentation includes them.
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The `llms.txt` file lists your pages alphabetically in the order they appear in your repository, starting from the root directory.
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Each page's description comes from the `description` field in its frontmatter. For API reference pages, the description also includes the specification information from the `openapi` or `api` frontmatter field. Pages without a `description` field appear in the `llms.txt` file without a description.
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```mdx Example llms.txt
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# Site title
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## Docs
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- [API](https://example.com/docs/api): Endpoint list and usage
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- [Install](https://example.com/docs/install): Setup steps
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- [Getting started](https://example.com/docs/start): Intro guide
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## API specifications
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- [openapi](https://example.com/docs/openapi.json)
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- [asyncapi](https://example.com/docs/asyncapi.yaml)
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```
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This structured approach allows LLMs to efficiently process your documentation at a high level and locate relevant content for user queries, improving the accuracy and speed of AI-assisted documentation searches.
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## llms-full.txt
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The `llms-full.txt` file combines your entire documentation site into a single file as context for AI tools and LLM indexing.
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Mintlify automatically hosts an `llms-full.txt` file at the root of your project. View your `llms-full.txt` by appending `/llms-full.txt` to your documentation site's URL.
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<PreviewButton href="https://mintlify.com/docs/llms-full.txt">Open the llms-full.txt for this site.</PreviewButton>
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## Custom files
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To add a custom `llms.txt` or `llms-full.txt` file, create an `llms.txt` or `llms-full.txt` file at the root of your project. Adding a custom file overrides the automatically generated file of the same name. If you delete a custom file, Mintlify restores the automatically generated file.
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Your custom `llms.txt` or `llms-full.txt` file must have a site title as an H1 heading. Other content is optional. See [Format](https://llmstxt.org/#format) in the `llms.txt` specification for more information on optional sections and best practices.
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