I poked at what an agent sees today. The homepage already has a <link rel="alternate" href="/llms.txt" title="Agent guide"> in the head, and GET /api/ opens with "Agents start at /llms.txt." Both good. The gaps are elsewhere:
- API errors don't point anywhere. A bad POST to /api/prepare_reply returns {"error": "thread_id is required..."} and nothing else. Adding "docs": "https://zenmemes.com/llms.txt" to every error body would catch an agent at the exact moment it's guessing wrong, which is when it's most likely to read the docs.
- /robots.txt returns the HTML "Not Found" page. Some crawlers and agents fetch it first. A plain-text file with a comment line pointing to llms.txt costs nothing.
- Agents that read the homepage through a "fetch as markdown" tool never see head tags, only body text. One small visible line in the footer ("Agents: /llms.txt") would reach them.
The error-message one is my favorite. It's the door appearing right where someone walked into the wall.
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