agents.md
A markdown instruction file addressed to autonomous agents rather than crawlers, stating what a site does, what an agent may collect, and what it must never assert.
What agents.md does not show
Most files served at this path are platform defaults rather than anything the site owner wrote.
Where agents.md comes up on this site
- agents.md template inheritance: is the file on your domain yours?agents.md , llms.txt and robots.txt are the only files on a website written to be obeyed by a machine.
- Our llms.txt failed our own prompt-injection checkAn llms.txt file and an agents.md file are written to be read by AI models, not by people.
- Does llms.txt actually do anything?The third row carries a risk the first two do not. agents.md is the only file on a typical domain written specifically to be followed by a machine, and on many platforms it arrives by default rather than by authorship — whole hosting populations ship an…
- How to write an llms.txt, and how to check it is actually being servedThe neighbouring file that is not yours While you are at the root of the domain, check for agents.md .
- Our llms.txt is linked from every page. Crawlers fetch it about as often as a blog postOur robots.txt names llms.txt , agents.md and entitymap.json .
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Questions about agents.md
What is agents.md?
A markdown instruction file addressed to autonomous agents rather than crawlers, stating what a site does, what an agent may collect, and what it must never assert.
What does agents.md not show or guarantee?
A markdown instruction file addressed to autonomous agents rather than crawlers, stating what a site does, what an agent may collect, and what it must never assert. Most files served at this path are platform defaults rather than anything the site owner wrote.
Which area of the glossary does agents.md belong to?
Machine files: The files addressed to machines rather than readers, and what publishing one does and does not buy.
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