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Generation of an llms.txt file for the website

Date:
October 6, 2026
Mercury now supports the direct creation of llms.txt files from a website’s content. This provides AI systems with a structured overview of a website's most important information.

Website content is increasingly aimed at two target audiences: people who visit a website and AI assistants that use content from the web to answer questions.

The llms.txt convention offers a way to help AI systems find important content on a website and better understand its meaning. The approach follows /robots.txt and /sitemap.xml, using a standard filename at the site root. 

Highlighting key content

Mercury now offers built-in support for creating and maintaining llms.txt files directly from a website’s content.

Editors decide for themselves which content to highlight and how to describe it. Mercury handles the technical implementation and generates the website’s llms.txt file from this information. As a result, editors do not need to know the technical format or maintain a separate text file.

Descriptions with optional AI support

Descriptions can be entered manually or generated automatically from published page content using a configured LLM service.