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Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2025 15:32:39 -0400
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Subject: Re: Feature request: Add a llms.txt file to the docs for AIs to learn
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On Sunday, November 2, 2025, Adri=C3=A1n Cuadrado Chavarr=C3=ADa <
adriancuadradochavarria97@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Why should we invest effort to feed the machine?
>
> Great news: you don't have to. I don't mind investing the effort myself s=
o
> no one else has to. It's just a matter of creating a script that would
> concatenate all markdown files of the documentation and run it
> automatically whenever a change is made in any document.
>

The current build for the documentation doesn=E2=80=99t produce Markdown.


>
> > I don't think that that improves life for anybody, except perhaps for
> the owners of said LLMs.
>
> Users of LLMs would appreciate having a feature like this one.
>

People are going to use LLMs - I have no problem with my volunteer efforts
to improve the documentation to be read and referenced by LLMs so that they
at least have correct content to work from and save me the effort of having
to further correct mistakes or deal with misinformed people.  Not that I=E2=
=80=99m
volunteering to do the work.  It LLMs seem like a natural pairing with open
source principles.  Our documentation is already known to be an official
source for attribution purposes.  Though I=E2=80=99m not totally convinced =
about it
ability to handle our versioning policies correctly if we rely on
generalized models scraping us.

David J.

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<div>The convention here is to add responses inline, after the quoted conte=
nt being responded to.</div><div><br></div>On Sunday, November 2, 2025, Adr=
i=C3=A1n Cuadrado Chavarr=C3=ADa &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:adriancuadradochavar=
ria97@gmail.com">adriancuadradochavarria97@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blo=
ckquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #c=
cc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir=3D"ltr">&gt; Why should we invest effor=
t to feed the machine?<div><br></div><div>Great news: you don&#39;t have to=
. I don&#39;t mind investing the effort myself so no one else has to. It=
9;s just a matter of creating a script that would concatenate all markdown =
files of the documentation and run it automatically whenever a change is ma=
de in any document.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The current=
 build for the documentation doesn=E2=80=99t produce Markdown.</div><div>=
=C2=A0</div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;bo=
rder-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div><br></div>=
<div>&gt; I don&#39;t think that that improves life for anybody, except per=
haps for the owners of said LLMs.</div><div><br></div><div>Users of LLMs wo=
uld appreciate having a feature like this one.</div></div></blockquote><div=
><br></div><div>People are going to use LLMs - I have no problem with my vo=
lunteer efforts to improve the documentation to be read and referenced by L=
LMs so that they at least have correct content to work from and save me the=
 effort of having to further correct mistakes or deal with misinformed peop=
le.=C2=A0 Not that I=E2=80=99m volunteering to do the work.=C2=A0 It LLMs s=
eem like a natural pairing with open source principles.=C2=A0 Our documenta=
tion is already known to be an official source for attribution purposes.=C2=
=A0 Though I=E2=80=99m not totally convinced about it ability to handle our=
 versioning policies correctly if we rely on generalized models scraping us=
.</div><div><br></div><div>David J.</div><div>=C2=A0</div>

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