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A directory for answer engines
An answer engine needs a directory it can cite. The summary, the FAQ, and the language editions are the body of that directory.
An answer engine does not read your site as a pile of divs. It looks for a directory it can cite: what this is, which languages exist, and what each essay says.
llms.txt is the short directory. llms-full.txt carries the full text. Both are built from published translations, not from drafts in the admin.
What the page needs
- A clean URL per language:
/zh/,/en/,/ja/,/es/,/ar/. - A summary, a FAQ, and breadcrumbs inside the article.
- Arabic pages that set
dir="rtl"and show up in hreflang, the sitemap, and RSS.
The structure a person reads and the structure a model reads are the same one. The directory is just the short version.
Questions
Does llms.txt include drafts?
No. Only published posts with a public translation in that language are listed in the directory, the sitemap, and the RSS feed.