Your website can offer two plain files besides its pages: a short summary of your kennel, and a Markdown copy of each page. They are made from the words, dogs and litters your website already shows, so an assistant that reads them gets the same facts a visitor would. This guide explains what is in them, when they are offered, and how to turn them off.
What the files are
- A summary file. It lives at the end of your website's address, as
/llms.txt. It names your kennel, says where you are and what you breed, lists your pages, dogs and litters with a line each, and gives your contact details. - A Markdown copy of each page. Each public page has a plain-text twin at the same address with
.mdadded. Your home page's copy is at/index.md.
The labels that describe your dogs, litters, questions and social profiles to search engines are separate. They are part of your pages, follow the same search invitation, and stay on whichever choice you make here.
None of it is written about you by us, except a line at the end of the summary file crediting Kennel Press unless your plan removes the badge. The files never include drafts, private notes, or anything you have not published.
When they are offered
The files are offered only when all of these are true:
- Your website is published.
- Search engines are invited to it. See Address and search, Search engines are invited.
- You have not turned the files off.
A website that is not invited to search engines offers no files, whatever you choose. A page you hid from search has no Markdown copy either.
Turn them off or back on
- Choose Address and search in the sidebar.
- Find Files for AI assistants.
- Choose Turn Off, or Turn On to bring them back.
Like every other setting, your choice waits for Publish. The card shows Waiting to publish until you publish, and Discard change puts back what visitors have now.
What to expect
- The files follow your published website. When you publish a change, the files catch up within a few minutes.
- They use your own words for your dogs and litters, so they read the way your website does.
- An assistant may or may not read them. We can't promise that any assistant uses them, or what it says about your website.
- Asking a page for Markdown, the way assistants and tools can, returns the same copy while the files are on. A browser, or a tool asking while they are off, gets the page as usual.
- Turning them off removes the summary file and the Markdown copies. Your pages, their search labels, search titles and sitemap stay exactly as they were, and anyone who asks for a page in any form still gets the page.
If something goes wrong
- The card says nothing is offered yet. Your website is not yet invited to search engines. Search engines are invited on the same screen lists what is left to do.
- I turned them off and the files are still there. The choice waits for Publish. Choose Publish Website, then allow a few minutes.
- A page is missing from the summary. Pages you hid from search are left out. Open the page's settings in the page editor and check Search and sharing.
- The summary shows something I want to change. It repeats your published words, so change them where you wrote them, in Your kennel or the page editor, and publish.
Still stuck? Contact support and tell us your website's address.