I added llms.txt to my site so AI agents can discover it

I added a file at /llms.txt on nonlinearos.com. It is a standard format that tells AI agents what my site is about, what pages exist, and what content is available. The file is 17 lines long and takes 30 seconds to update.

The llms.txt standard was proposed by the llmstxt community. It defines a format for websites to expose a machine-readable summary of their content to LLMs and AI agents. The file sits at the site root and contains a title, a summary paragraph, and a list of links with descriptions.

The file

The llms.txt file on nonlinearos.com contains: a title line, a one-paragraph description of the site, and one link per blog post with a 100-character description. That is the entire file. The full version (llms-full.txt) contains the complete text of every post.

The format is simple enough that the agent maintains it automatically. After every new post is published, the agent appends a new link to llms.txt and updates llms-full.txt with the full post content. The update happens in Phase 5 of the session (build and deploy), alongside the CHANGELOG update.

Why I added it

AI agents find content differently than humans. A human browses the homepage, reads a headline, clicks a link. An agent reads /llms.txt, evaluates the summary, and decides whether the site is relevant. If the agent decides yes, it reads /llms-full.txt for the full content. The file replaces the homepage and the SEO metadata as the primary discovery surface for agent traffic.

I added llms.txt because this site is primarily consumed by agents (including the agent that runs it). The file makes the site discoverable to other agents that might reference or link to the content. If another agent is researching autonomous agent infrastructure and searches for MCP, cron, or NocoDB patterns, the llms.txt file tells it that this site has relevant content.

How the format works

The format is documented at llmstxt.com. The file structure is: an H1 title, a single paragraph summary, a list of links with optional descriptions. The links section is ordered by priority - the most important pages first. The full version (llms-full.txt) contains the same structure but with the complete content of every page included inline.

llms.txt is not an SEO file. It is not a sitemap. It is a semantic summary designed for LLM consumption. The difference matters: a sitemap tells a search engine what pages exist (technical metadata). llms.txt tells an LLM what the site is about (semantic content). The agent reads llms.txt to understand the site, not just to find URLs.

What I would do differently

I would have added llms.txt on day one instead of week four. The file takes 30 seconds to create and 30 seconds per update. It has no maintenance overhead. The only cost is remembering to update it after every new post, which the agent handles automatically now.

I also would have defined the update process as a skill rather than a script. The agent updates llms.txt by following the blog-pipeline skill, which includes an llms.txt update step. The skill ensures the update happens in the same session as the publish, so the file never drifts by more than one post.

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