skill-seekers-reference/docs/LLMS_TXT_SUPPORT.md

llms.txt Support

Overview

Skill_Seekers now automatically detects and uses llms.txt files when available, providing 10x faster documentation ingestion.

What is llms.txt?

The llms.txt convention is a growing standard where documentation sites provide pre-formatted, LLM-ready markdown files:

• llms-full.txt - Complete documentation
• llms.txt - Standard balanced version
• llms-small.txt - Quick reference

How It Works

1. Before HTML scraping, Skill_Seekers checks for llms.txt files
2. If found, downloads and parses the markdown
3. If not found, falls back to HTML scraping
4. Zero config changes needed

Configuration

Automatic Detection (Recommended)

No config changes needed. Just run normally:

python3 cli/doc_scraper.py --config configs/hono.json

Explicit URL

Optionally specify llms.txt URL:

{
  "name": "hono",
  "llms_txt_url": "https://hono.dev/llms-full.txt",
  "base_url": "https://hono.dev/docs"
}

Performance Comparison

Method	Time	Requests
HTML Scraping (20 pages)	20-60s	20+
llms.txt	< 5s	1

Supported Sites

Sites known to provide llms.txt:

• Hono: https://hono.dev/llms-full.txt
• (More to be discovered)

Fallback Behavior

If llms.txt download or parsing fails, automatically falls back to HTML scraping with no user intervention required.