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llms.txt Implementation: The Part Nobody Measures

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My robots.txt has a line that says AI search and citation crawlers are "explicitly welcomed." I wrote that in July, four months after I'd already shipped an llms.txt file to this exact site. In that time I have not been able to confirm that a single one of those crawlers has ever opened it. That is…

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  1. 2026-08-24 07:00 · DEV Community — AI
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