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Websites get AI-friendly plain text 'doors' for efficient agent access

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Developer Debbie O'Brien has implemented a strategy to make websites more accessible to AI agents by providing plain text "doors" that bypass the usual HTML overhead. These include a concise map at `/llms.txt` and a more comprehensive catalog at `/llms-full.txt`, alongside clean Markdown copies of individual posts. This approach, inspired by Jeremy Howard's proposal, significantly reduces the data an AI agent needs to download and process, making it more efficient to extract information from web content. AI

IMPACT This approach could streamline how AI agents access and process web content, making information retrieval more efficient.

RANK_REASON The item describes a technical implementation for improving website accessibility to AI agents, which is a tooling improvement.

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Websites get AI-friendly plain text 'doors' for efficient agent access

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  1. dev.to — MCP tag TIER_1 Français(FR) · Debbie O'Brien ·

    Get your site agent-ready

    <p>To find everything I've published about MCP, an agent has to open four tag pages, one each for blog posts, videos, podcasts and courses. Together that's about 257 KB of HTML, and it still has to count everything by hand.</p> <p>Only about 12 KB of that is the words on the page…

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