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llms.txt examples you can adapt

An llms.txt file is a Markdown file at /llms.txt that starts with an H1 containing the site or product name, followed by a short blockquote summary, optional paragraphs of context, and H2 sections containing bulleted links to key pages, each with a short description. An optional H2 named 'Optional' lists less important links. Documentation sites from companies such as Anthropic, Stripe, and Cloudflare publish examples you can study.

This page gives three example structures following the llms.txt proposal, described section by section, so you can adapt them to your site. For what llms.txt is and whether you need it, see our explainer; for the full-content variant, see our llms-full.txt guide.

By , Founder, SerionFlow

What we measured ·

What Google shows for "llms.txt example" right now

Method: Live Google results (United States, desktop, English) for "llms.txt example" retrieved through DataForSEO's SERP API on 2026-10-22. Page types are our own classification of each ranking URL.

The top 9 organic results for "llms.txt example" were 2 guides or explainers, 2 forum or community threads, 2 videos, 2 product or service pages, 1 list or comparison. The first three were www.infrasity.com, www.reddit.com, medium.com. Community threads (www.reddit.com, community.shopify.com) ranked on page one, a sign searchers want first-hand answers, not only vendor pages.

Google returned an AI Overview placeholder that loads after the page, so whether the Overview appears for a given searcher, and which sources it cites, could not be captured.

Top organic results for "llms.txt example", 2026-10-22
PositionDomainPage type
1www.infrasity.comGuide or explainer
2www.reddit.comForum or community thread
3medium.comList or comparison
4www.youtube.comVideo
5community.shopify.comForum or community thread
6github.comProduct or service page
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The required structure

The proposal defines a small set of elements, in this order.

llms.txt elements
ElementMarkdownRequired
Name# Product or site nameYes
Summary> One or two sentences describing itRecommended
ContextPlain paragraphs or lists with key factsOptional
Link sections## Section name, then - [Title](URL): descriptionRecommended
Optional section## Optional, with secondary linksOptional
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Example 1: a SaaS product site

Start with '# SerionFlow' and a summary such as '> SerionFlow is a programmatic SEO platform that builds and publishes quality-gated pages for B2B SaaS teams and agencies.' Add a short paragraph with plans and starting price as of a date, and who it is not for. Then '## Product' with links to the homepage, features, and integrations; '## Pricing' with the pricing page; '## Guides' with five to ten of the most useful guides; '## Compare' with alternatives pages; and '## Optional' with legal and company pages.

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Example 2: a documentation site

Documentation sites use llms.txt most. A typical structure is '# Product Docs', a summary of what the API or SDK does, then sections such as '## Getting started', '## Guides', '## API reference', and '## SDKs', each linking to Markdown versions of pages where available, often by adding .md to the URL. Many documentation platforms generate this automatically and pair it with llms-full.txt containing the full text.

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Example 3: an agency or services firm

Use '# Agency Name' and a summary stating services, specialisms, and the clients served. Then '## Services' linking each service page, '## Case studies' with outcomes in each description, '## Insights' with the most useful articles, and '## Contact' with the enquiry page. Keep descriptions factual; marketing slogans give a model nothing to work with.

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Mistakes to avoid and how we maintain ours

Common mistakes: linking hundreds of pages instead of curating, using vague descriptions, listing URLs that redirect or return 404, stating prices without dates, and forgetting to update the file. Remember that no major AI search engine has said it uses llms.txt to choose sources, so treat it as a convenience for agents and tools. serionflow.com generates its llms.txt at build time from the same registry as its sitemap, which keeps every link live. Our free llms.txt generator produces a starting file from your sitemap. SerionFlow is the wrong tool for publishing an llms.txt on your main site; it generates files only for the pages it serves.

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Frequently asked questions

Where do I put llms.txt?

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At the root of your domain, so it loads at https://yourdomain.com/llms.txt, served as plain text or Markdown.

Is llms.txt the same as robots.txt?

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No. robots.txt tells crawlers what they may fetch. llms.txt is a curated guide to your content for language models and agents, and does not grant or block access.

About the author

· Founder, SerionFlow

Shadrack builds SerionFlow's site research, page generation, and Search Console tooling, and runs the free tools these guides pair with. Search Console figures cited on these pages come from serionflow.com's own property.

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