llms.txt

also known as: LLM manifest

A plain-text file at a site’s root, written for AI systems and agents rather than human browsers: a short summary of what the product does, the honest facts worth stating up front, and links to the pages that matter most. It is the AI-era counterpart to robots.txt, not a directive, a briefing.

In AI Search API

This site’s own /llms.txt states the product’s honesty contract, its live-vs-roadmap surface list and its base API facts in one dense page, then links out to docs, pricing, the FAQ and this glossary; /llms-full.txt inlines the complete Envelope contract for an agent that wants the whole shape in one fetch, no crawling required. Both are kept consistent with the same _data/surfaces.ts source of truth every rendered page reads, an agent parsing llms.txt should never see a claim the rendered site contradicts. Keeping every link inside it resolvable is treated as part of the honesty contract itself: a manifest written for an "AI said what" company should not itself contain a dead link.

llms.txt, the opening lines
# AI Search API (aisearchapi.dev)

> A developer API that captures what a real person
> sees on consumer AI surfaces … returns … one
> stable, versioned Envelope.

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See it in the product

Every definition here is enforced in the Envelope contract. Run a capture and read the fields yourself.