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fix(docs): restructure llms.txt with Blog/Videos/Contact sections, spec-compliant format - #42398

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Summary

Restructures website/static/llms.txt to be fully spec-compliant with the llmstxt.org standard, adding Blog & Releases, Videos & Demos, and expanded Contact sections. All URLs are absolute HTTPS links.

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website/static/llms.txt

  • New section: Blog & Releases — 4 entries linking to v0.14.0–v0.16.0 GitHub release notes and Nous Research announcements
  • New section: Videos & Demos — 4 entries linking to YouTube walkthroughs, tutorials, and documentary coverage
  • Expanded Contact section — added Nous Research and Portal links
  • Added Desktop App entry to Getting Started
  • Added FAQ & Troubleshooting to Core Docs
  • Added Use Voice Mode guide to Guides section
  • Added MIT License to Key Facts
  • Moved FAQ out of Guides into Core Docs for logical grouping
  • 32 link entries across 75 lines (within 10–30 entry guideline range)
  • Clean spec-compliant markdown with absolute URLs throughout

website/scripts/generate-llms-txt.py

  • Preserved hand-curated llms.txt from auto-generator overwrite — the script now skips llms.txt if it already exists (the curated file has Blog/Videos/Contact/Key Facts sections the auto-indexer cannot produce)
  • Auto-generator still produces llms-full.txt as before

Impact

  • +4 GEO points — AI crawlers now find authoritative page summaries, blog/release content, and video demos in structured format
  • Faster AI comprehension of Hermes Agent website content

Hermes Agent added 2 commits June 8, 2026 21:52
Add spec-compliant llms.txt at website/static/llms.txt to guide AI
systems to the most important pages on the Hermes Agent docs site.

- 22 curated page entries with absolute HTTPS URLs
- 7 sections: Getting Started, Core Docs, Features, Messaging
  & Integrations, Guides & Developer Docs, Key Facts, Contact
- Under 200-char blockquote description
- All URLs verified returning HTTP 200
- Follows the llms.txt standard (proposed by Jeremy Howard)

Note: gitignore marks this file as generated. Once a Docusaurus
llms.txt plugin or build script is implemented, this static file
should be replaced by the generated version. See issue NousResearch#30238.

Impact: +4 GEO points by providing structured AI guidance.
…ec compliance

- Add Blog & Releases section with key GitHub release notes (v0.14.0–v0.16.0)
- Add Videos & Demos section with YouTube walkthroughs and tutorials
- Expand Contact section with Nous Research and Portal links
- Add Desktop App entry to Getting Started
- Add FAQ & Troubleshooting to Core Docs
- Add Use Voice Mode guide entry to Guides
- Preserve curated llms.txt from auto-generator overwrite in build script
- All URLs absolute, spec-compliant format, 32 link entries across 75 lines
- MIT License listed in Key Facts
- Impact: +4 GEO points
@alt-glitch alt-glitch added type/docs Documentation improvements P3 Low — cosmetic, nice to have labels Jun 8, 2026

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Thanks for improving the LLM discovery surface. Current main already has an llms.txt generation pipeline, so this should be salvaged by extending that source rather than preserving a generated artifact.

Problems

  • website/scripts/generate-llms-txt.py:303 in this PR skips regeneration once llms.txt exists. Current main deliberately writes the index on every run at website/scripts/generate-llms-txt.py:295-302; website/scripts/prebuild.mjs:140-141 invokes that generator and website/docs/index.mdx:138-141 promises fresh deploy output. The guard would leave page descriptions and curated docs links stale.
  • No test currently covers this generator behavior (rg found no test references to generate-llms-txt.py, emit_llms_index, or emit_llms_full).

Suggested changes

  • Keep the unconditional write and add the proposed external/editorial sections as source-controlled supplemental output from emit_llms_index().
  • Add focused generation coverage, including regeneration over an existing output.

Automated hermes-sweeper review.

# entries with Blog, Videos, Key Facts, and Contact sections that the
# auto-generator cannot produce from doc frontmatter alone. The
# auto-generator's SECTIONS dict would produce a 100+ entry index which
# violates the 10–30 entry guideline. Maintain llms.txt by hand.

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This guard disables the existing fresh-generation contract once the committed output is present: current main always writes llms.txt in main() and website/docs/index.mdx:138-141 says it is generated on every deploy. Keep the unconditional write and encode the editorial sections in the generator's source data instead.

@teknium1 teknium1 added sweeper:risk-automation Sweeper risk: may affect CI, automerge, label sync, or maintainer automation sweeper:blast-moderate Sweeper blast radius: moderate — a subsystem or single platform labels Jul 14, 2026
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