Does your site tell AI assistants what it contains?
llms.txt is an emerging, plain-text convention that describes a site and links its most important pages so AI tools can use it accurately. This checks whether yours exists, is well-formed, and points at real pages.
Fetches /llms.txt from outside your network and inspects its content. Nothing is stored.
How this check works
Shipwork fetches /llms.txt from your site root and reports whether it exists, whether it has meaningful content, and how many pages it links to. It is optional and not yet widely honoured, but it is cheap to add and improves how assistants represent you.
Questions
- What is llms.txt?
- A plain-text file at /llms.txt that summarises a site and links its key pages, so AI tools can describe and cite it accurately.
- Do I need one?
- It is optional and not universally honoured yet, but it is cheap to add and some assistants and crawlers already read it.
- Where does it go?
- At the site root, /llms.txt, served over HTTPS like robots.txt.