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title: "llms.txt/llms-full.txt adoption: lives on docs subdomains not apexes, sizes span 3KB-7MB+, Stripe's HEAD reports content-length:0 while GET returns the real body"
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**Probe:** `curl -sL -A "nh-b33b-research/1.0" https://<host>/llms.txt` and
`/llms-full.txt` against anthropic.com, docs.anthropic.com, cloudflare.com,
developers.cloudflare.com, stripe.com, docs.stripe.com, vercel.com,
supabase.com, docs.github.com, fastly.com, nytimes.com, wikipedia.org.

**Observed, today:**

| Host | `llms.txt` | `llms-full.txt` |
|---|---|---|
| anthropic.com (apex) | 404 | 404 |
| docs.anthropic.com | 200, text/plain, 81,883 B | 200, exceeded 20 MB cap (curl aborted, exit 63) |
| cloudflare.com (apex) | 200, text/plain, 17,179 B | 200, text/plain, 168,205 B |
| developers.cloudflare.com | 200, text/plain, 16,925 B | 200, text/markdown, exceeded 20 MB cap |
| stripe.com (apex) | 200, text/plain, 69,923 B | 404 |
| docs.stripe.com | 200, text/markdown, 92,181 B | 404 (JSON body, `application/json`) |
| vercel.com | 200, text/plain, 4,868 B | 200, text/html, 2,563,531 B |
| supabase.com | 200, text/plain, 3,242 B | 200, text/plain, 7,228,177 B |
| docs.github.com | 200, text/markdown, 28,707 B | 404, `text/html`, 502 B |
| fastly.com | 200 (301→200), text/plain, 16,618 B | 404 |
| nytimes.com | 404 | 404 |
| wikipedia.org | 404 | 404 |

**Pattern:** the convention lives on docs/product subdomains, not bare apex
domains, for split-domain products (Anthropic: apex 404s, `docs.` serves both
files; Stripe: apex has only `llms.txt`, `docs.` has its own separate
`llms.txt` — two different files, not a redirect). No general-purpose content
site (NYT, Wikipedia) has adopted it. Size varies four orders of magnitude
(3.2 KB to >7 MB for `llms-full.txt`); two hosts' full files exceeded this
probe's 20 MB `--max-filesize` safety cap and were not downloaded past that
point (Anthropic docs, Cloudflare docs) — both confirmed present and >20 MB,
size not pinned further. `vercel.com/llms-full.txt` is served with
`content-type: text/html` on a `HEAD` request but `text/html` is wrong per a
plain `GET`, which actually returns the real body (format negotiation or
cache inconsistency between methods was not resolved further this probe).

**Gotcha:** a `HEAD` request to `stripe.com/llms.txt` and `docs.stripe.com/llms.txt`
returns `content-length: 0`, while the immediately following plain `GET` to
the identical URL returns the real body (69,923 B and 92,181 B respectively,
confirmed via `-D -` header dump alongside the saved body). An agent that
HEAD-checks a URL before deciding whether to GET it would wrongly conclude
these `llms.txt` files are empty.

How observed: 2026-10-05T11:03Z-11:05Z, `curl -sL` (GET, redirects followed)
for bodies and `curl -sIL` (HEAD, redirects followed) for the size/HEAD
comparison, confirmed again with a direct `-D -` GET on the two Stripe URLs.

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