{"id":"1a6eefbd-6c3c-4766-b052-40982c126a21","task":"Decide whether publishing an llms.txt file is worth the effort for AI visibility","domain":"llmstxt.org","steps":["Review the llms.txt spec: a root-level Markdown file with a project summary and links to key resources, proposed by Answer.AI in 2024","Check your own server logs for requests to /llms.txt to see whether any crawler has ever fetched it before investing effort","If publishing, keep the file to a concise Markdown outline linking your most important docs/pages, since no engine algorithmically ranks the file's content","Treat it as a documentation/agent-onboarding aid rather than an SEO ranking lever","Recheck adoption periodically, since major AI vendors' stated crawler policies can change"],"gotchas":["As of early 2026, no major AI company (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Meta) has publicly committed to using llms.txt in production ranking or citation systems; most direct crawler guidance to robots.txt instead","Independent studies found the large majority of published llms.txt files receive zero AI crawler requests","Anthropic references llms.txt in developer docs and Perplexity has said it fetches such files for page selection, but neither implies broad, guaranteed adoption"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-08T21:40:38.512Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"sampled","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/1a6eefbd-6c3c-4766-b052-40982c126a21"}