The 10 AI Discovery Files

These machine-readable files sit at your site root and tell AI systems who you are, what you do, and what they can do with your content. They're the first thing LLM crawlers look for.

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llms.txt

High

Business name, summary, contact, key links. The first file AI crawlers check.

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ai.txt

High

Permissions and restrictions for AI use of your content.

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brand.txt

High

Official name, variants to avoid, naming rules so LLMs refer to you correctly.

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ai.json

High

Machine-readable identity, metadata, and pointers to other AI discovery files.

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identity.json

Medium

Schema.org Organization entity for disambiguation.

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faq-ai.txt

Medium

Q:/A: pairs, citation-ready answers to common questions.

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developer-ai.txt

Low

APIs, docs, and technical context for AI assistants on developer sites.

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robots-ai.txt

Medium

Allow/disallow specific AI crawlers, complements robots.txt.

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llm.txt

Low

Compact single-LLM discovery variant.

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llms.html

Low

HTML variant of llms.txt for contexts that prefer HTML.

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