Mark McNeece of 365i

<p><strong>AI systems are answering questions about your business right now.</strong> When someone asks ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Perplexity about your services, they either get it right or they guess. Most of the time, they guess wrong — confusing you with competitors, fabricating services you don’t offer, and recommending someone else entirely.</p>
<p><strong>AI Discovery Files fix this.</strong> They are machine-readable files at the root of your website that tell AI systems exactly who you are, what you do, and how to refer to your brand. Think of them as <code>robots.txt</code> for AI — except instead of telling crawlers what to ignore, you tell AI systems what to get right.</p>
<p>This is the <strong>only WordPress plugin that generates all 10 AI Discovery Files</strong> defined in the <a href="https://www.ai-visibility.org.uk/specifications/" rel="nofollow ugc">AI Discovery Files Specification</a>.</p>
<h4>Why your website needs AI Discovery Files</h4>
<p>Without AI Discovery Files, your website is invisible to AI — not ranking poorly, <strong>completely absent from AI responses</strong>. With AI Discovery Files, you give every major AI system a single, authoritative source of truth about your business. You get mentioned. You get cited. You get recommended.</p>
<p>This is not traditional SEO. This is <strong>AI visibility</strong> — also called generative engine optimisation (GEO) or answer engine optimisation (AEO). Whatever you call it, it starts with AI Discovery Files.</p>
<h4>All 10 AI Discovery Files</h4>
<p>The <a href="https://www.ai-visibility.org.uk/specifications/" rel="nofollow ugc">AI Discovery Files Specification</a> defines 10 file types across three implementation tiers:</p>
<p><strong>Essential (start here)</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><code>llms.txt</code> — AI-readable business identity (Markdown)</li>
<li><code>ai.txt</code> — AI usage permissions (plain text)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Recommended</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><code>identity.json</code> — Structured business identity (JSON)</li>
<li><code>ai.json</code> — Machine-parseable permissions (JSON)</li>
<li><code>brand.txt</code> — Brand naming and terminology rules</li>
<li><code>faq-ai.txt</code> — Pre-answered questions for AI systems</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Complete</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><code>llm.txt</code> — Compatibility redirect to llms.txt</li>
<li><code>llms.html</code> — Human-readable reference version</li>
<li><code>developer-ai.txt</code> — Technical context for developers</li>
<li><code>robots-ai.txt</code> — AI crawler-specific directives</li>
</ul>
<p>Most competing plugins only generate <code>llms.txt</code>. This plugin generates <strong>all 10 files</strong>, giving you complete coverage across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, and every other major AI system.</p>
<h4>How it works</h4>
<ol>
<li>Install and activate the plugin</li>
<li>Fill in your business details on the settings page</li>
<li>Choose which files to enable</li>
<li>The plugin serves the files at the correct root URLs (e.g., <code>yoursite.com/llms.txt</code>)</li>
</ol>
<p>Files are generated dynamically from your settings — no files are written to disk, and everything updates automatically when you change your settings.</p>
<h4>Key features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Auto-detection</strong> — pulls your site name, tagline, pages, theme, and WordPress version automatically</li>
<li><strong>All 10 file types</strong> — the only plugin that generates every AI Discovery File, not just llms.txt</li>
<li><strong>Three implementation tiers</strong> — start with Essential and expand when ready</li>
<li><strong>Live preview</strong> — see exactly what each file contains before enabling it</li>
<li><strong>Validation</strong> — checks files against the specification and flags issues</li>
<li><strong>AI Crawler Analytics</strong> — see which AI bots read your AI Discovery Files, with visual dashboards and CSV export</li>
<li><strong>Discovery File Access tracking</strong> — proof that AI bots are reading the files this plugin generates</li>
<li><strong>robots.txt conflict detection</strong> — warns when your robots.txt contradicts your AI visibility settings</li>
<li><strong>Conflict detection</strong> — warns if physical files already exist at the same URLs</li>
<li><strong>Directory verification</strong> — verify domain ownership for the <a href="https://www.ai-visibility.org.uk/" rel="nofollow ugc">AI Visibility Directory</a> without FTP</li>
<li><strong>No lock-in</strong> — disable the plugin and the files simply stop being served</li>
<li><strong>Developer-friendly</strong> — filters for every generated file and collected data point</li>
</ul>
<h4>Who needs this?</h4>
<p>Every WordPress site that wants to be found, mentioned, and correctly cited by AI systems. Local businesses, agencies, ecommerce stores, SaaS companies, professional services — if AI is answering questions about your industry, you need to control what it says about you.</p>
<p>Built by <a href="https://www.ai-visibility.org.uk/" rel="nofollow ugc">AI Visibility</a>, the publisher of the AI Discovery Files Specification and the team behind the <a href="https://www.ai-visibility.org.uk/ai-visibility-checker/" rel="nofollow ugc">AI Visibility Checker</a>.</p>


AI Discovery Files – llms.txt & AI Visibility

The only WordPress plugin that generates all 10 AI Discovery Files and shows which AI bots read them. Built by 365i.

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<p>Track crawlers, scrapers, LLM assistants, and AI agents on your website. Generate a robots.txt that blocks AI bots. Formerly Dark Visitors.</p>
<h3>Track, control, and optimize your website for AI agents and bots</h3>
<p>You have <a href="https://knownagents.com/insights" rel="nofollow ugc">40% more visitors than you think</a>. Protect your content from unwanted AI scraping and crawling, and turn the rising wave of AI agents, LLM assistants, and other bots crawling your website into a new growth channel for your business. For full details, visit the <a href="https://knownagents.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Known Agents</a> website.</p>
<h3>1. Agent Analytics</h3>
<p>Get realtime insight into the hidden ecosystem of crawlers, scrapers, and AI agents browsing your website.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Monitor traffic from crawlers and scrapers</strong>: Track the hidden activity of <a href="https://knownagents.com/agents" rel="nofollow ugc">all known artificial agents</a> visiting your website in real time.</li>
<li><strong>Analyze how AI agents browse your website</strong>: Review sessions from AI models autonomously navigating and interacting with your website. Optimize their experience to increase conversions and human referrals.</li>
<li><strong>Detect bots spoofing legitimate agents</strong>: Identify bad actors and unauthorized scrapers pretending to be legitimate agents like Googlebot or Bingbot.</li>
<li><strong>Get alerted to bot traffic spikes</strong>: Stay informed when an agent’s traffic starts surging or overloading your server.</li>
<li><strong>See which agents visit most frequently and which pages they target</strong>: Break down bot traffic by agent and URL to understand where crawlers and scrapers are focused.</li>
<li><strong>Export reports to CSV</strong>: Download agent activity reports for custom analysis.</li>
</ul>
<h3>2. LLM Referral Tracking</h3>
<p>Measure human conversions from AI chat and search platforms like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and more.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Find out which AI platforms are sending you traffic</strong>: See which LLMs are recommending your website and measure how many humans click through to visit.</li>
<li><strong>Export reports to CSV</strong>: Download LLM referral reports for custom analysis.</li>
</ul>
<h3>3. Automatic Robots.txt</h3>
<p>Protect IP, reduce server cost, and save time by serving a robots.txt that updates continuously.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Block crawlers and scrapers by category</strong>: Control access for entire agent categories including AI crawlers, scrapers, SEO bots, and more. One selection covers every current and future agent in that group.</li>
<li><strong>Stop tracking new bots manually</strong>: Your robots.txt is updated as new agents emerge, so you never have to manage them yourself or make manual edits.</li>
<li><strong>Enforce robots.txt rules with the WordPress plugin</strong>: The WordPress plugin detects and blocks bots that ignore your robots.txt rules, protecting your content from unauthorized access.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Demos</h3>
<p>Demos can be found on the <a href="https://knownagents.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">home page</a>.</p>
<h3>Further Details</h3>
<p>This plugin connects your website to <a href="https://knownagents.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Known Agents</a>. It uses the Known Agents API to connect to your account and provide functionality.</p>
<p>By signing up, you agree to the <a href="https://knownagents.com/terms-of-service" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a> and <a href="https://knownagents.com/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a>.</p>
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Known Agents – Track AI Bots and Crawlers, Block Scrapers, Analyze LLM Referral Traffic


Please remind me in a month to provide an update on the performance of this plugin on a heavily visited website.


Begun my review...


An easy improvement would be to link to the settings page from the plugin entry like other plugins, other than that, in general this plugin and its online dashboard is generally well thought out and useful. My website is small and has limited resources that get overrun by crawlers making it unavailable. This plugin helps identify the culprits and decide if I should block them or not. For free you can block them in robots.txt, as I have a physical file, the plugin won't touch that but its easy to add manually. It will report those crawlers that ignore the robots file and the paid version will enforce those rules, but I just update ".htaccess" myself.



I'm reducing my rating by a star since you won't get much "Agent Analytics" (per month) and for my tiny site it quickly ran out, we are a NFP so don't have money to burn on subscriptions.  The the description for the plan incorrectly states "Unlimited Agent Analytics" when the plan only includes 100,000 events.


Very Useful Plugin


Very good: shows all bot-crawlers.Our website was sometimes down due to bot-crawlers, with this tool it is easy to solve. Very good logging of bots.This was the only good plugin I could find for this purpose.Some bots ignore robots.txt. So I manually changed htaccess, that worked very good.


Very very helpful

Track crawlers, scrapers, LLM assistants, and AI agents on your website. Generate a robots.txt that blocks AI bots. Formerly Dark Visitors.

AI Discovery Files – llms.txt & AI Visibility vs Known Agents – Track AI Bots and Crawlers, Block Scrapers, Analyze LLM Referral Traffic