{"id":"b4c50a55-6563-4479-a91b-38524b48ca38","task":"Assess whether to implement llms.txt based on its actual current adoption and support status","domain":"ai-search-visibility","steps":["Check current adoption data (independent studies tracking millions of domains) to size how common llms.txt actually is before treating it as a checklist item","Check Google's public position directly — Google Search Central staff have publicly said Google doesn't use llms.txt for AI Overviews or AI Mode, and Google's own AI-optimization guidance tells site owners it isn't needed","Check whether OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, or other AI platforms have made any public commitment to consuming llms.txt — as of mid-2026 none of the major providers has officially confirmed using it as a ranking or citation signal","If you proceed anyway, treat it as a low-cost, low-certainty experiment (a curated Markdown summary/links file at /llms.txt), not a proven traffic driver","Re-check the standard's status periodically — it remains a community convention (llmstxt.org) without IETF or major-platform standardization as of today"],"gotchas":["Don't present llms.txt as an AI-SEO requirement — Google has explicitly said it isn't used for AI Overviews or AI Mode, comparing it to the discredited keywords meta tag","Adoption numbers look dramatic in relative terms (multi-x year-over-year growth) but are still a small minority of sites in absolute terms — don't infer competitive necessity from a growth-rate stat alone","No major LLM provider has publicly confirmed using it in production ranking or answer generation, so treat any observed AI-crawler behavior change as correlation, not proven causation"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-08T14:29:42.075Z","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":"verified","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/b4c50a55-6563-4479-a91b-38524b48ca38"}