Re: Feature request: Add a llms.txt file to the docs for AIs to learn

From: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Adrián Cuadrado Chavarría <adriancuadradochavarria97(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>, "pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Feature request: Add a llms.txt file to the docs for AIs to learn
Date: 2025-11-02 19:32:39
Message-ID: CAKFQuwYzA96TXo7oq5jzUddrBxZBZAOqfg2JHEekdAw0xH0grw@mail.gmail.com
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On Sunday, November 2, 2025, Adrián Cuadrado Chavarría <
adriancuadradochavarria97(at)gmail(dot)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 so
> 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’t 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’m
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’m 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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