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Docs Now Serve AI Agents Too
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Documentation is no longer created solely for human consumption; it must now also serve as a structured, machine-readable "contract surface" for AI agents and other tools. This requires creating outputs like `llms.txt` files alongside traditional human-readable formats.
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- · machine-readable docs
- · AI as audience
- · new content formats
- · contract surface
PATTERNS
- · AI agents
- · llms.txt
- · AI-readable context
- · contract surface
- · agentic workflows
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