knovai

AI agents and AI crawlers are increasingly the ones visiting your site — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and their bots (GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, anthropic-ai, GoogleBot-Extended) research, recommend, and act on behalf of users. Traditional SEO doesn’t cover this. OARS is AI readiness (sometimes called AI SEO, Generative Engine Optimization / GEO, or Answer Engine Optimization / AEO): it publishes the machine-readable signals AI systems need to find, read, and correctly represent you.
The Open Agent Readiness Standard (OARS) by <a href="https://knov.ai" rel="nofollow ugc">Knov.ai</a> defines what makes a site machine-operable. This plugin handles the low-hanging fruit automatically and scores the rest.
<h4>Free</h4>
<ul>
<li>oars.json — a machine-readable knowledge declaration served at your domain root, auto-populated from your site title, tagline, categories, and pages.</li>
<li>llms.txt — a clean Markdown summary for LLMs (guaranteed to meet the 200-word minimum).</li>
<li>AI bot directives — adds rules for GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, anthropic-ai and GoogleBot-Extended to robots.txt.</li>
<li>Schema.org identity — injects Organization JSON-LD on your homepage.</li>
<li>Content-Signal headers — declares your AI usage preferences (search / input / training).</li>
<li>Live readiness score — the scorecard self-fetches your real URLs and headers, so it reflects what agents actually see; every gap is flagged with a fix and a proof link.</li>
<li>Level 0 baseline — security headers, optional report-only CSP, Link headers, and CORS on your agent files.</li>
<li>/llms-full.txt, /.well-known/oars.json, sitemap fallback and a guided first-run setup wizard.</li>
<li>Bring-your-own LLM (optional) — connect OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google to enrich your identity fields and llms.txt narrative.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Pro (separate add-on)</h4>
OARS Pro is a separate plugin you install alongside this one (available from tylerewillis.com). It adds:
<ul>
<li>Agent API (Level 3) — read-only REST endpoints, OpenAPI 3.1 contract, and an A2A agent card.</li>
<li>Web Bot Auth signing-key directory and Agent Skills discovery (.well-known).</li>
<li>Level 4a machine-readable product catalog from WooCommerce.</li>
<li>Full Level 1–2 scoring with per-check remediation.</li>
<li>Weekly monitoring with an email alert if your score drops.</li>
<li>Advanced Schema.org — Service, Product, and FAQPage auto-generated from your pages and WooCommerce catalog.</li>
<li>Markdown content negotiation (<code>Accept: text/markdown</code>) for agents.</li>
<li>Scheduled regeneration as your content changes.</li>
<li>WP Multisite / network management.</li>
<li>One-click submission to the Knov.ai directory + verification ID.</li>
<li>OARS compliance badge shortcode.</li>
</ul>
Pro is licensed per site or per agency. Learn more at <a href="https://tylerewillis.com/tools/oars-for-wordpress" rel="nofollow ugc">tylerewillis.com/tools/oars-for-wordpress</a>.
<h3>External services</h3>
The OARS Agent Readiness plugin works fully without contacting any third party. Some optional features connect to external services only when you enable them:
<ul>
<li>AI enrichment (optional). If you add an API key for OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google, the plugin sends the text content you ask it to process (e.g. your page titles and excerpts) to that provider to generate llms.txt narrative, identity suggestions, or FAQ content. Data is sent only when you click a generate button. Review each provider’s terms and privacy policy: OpenAI (https://openai.com/policies/), Anthropic (https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy), Google (https://policies.google.com/privacy).</li>
<li>Readiness self-check. The dashboard score fetches your own site’s public URLs (e.g. /llms.txt, /oars.json, your homepage) to verify what agents actually receive. These requests go to your own domain, not a third party.</li>
</ul>
(The optional OARS Pro add-on validates a license key with tylerewillis.com; that disclosure ships with the Pro plugin, not this free plugin.)
The “Scan headers”, “PageSpeed”, and “Validate schema” buttons simply open external tools in a new browser tab; OARS does not send your data to them from the server.

OARS Agent Readiness

AI readiness & AI SEO: add llms.txt, AI bot directives, Schema.org and oars.json so AI agents and crawlers can find, read and understand your site.

Sean Mullins

LLMs.txt Curator helps site owners generate and curate a high-quality <code>llms.txt</code> file for AI assistants and retrieval systems, ensuring only relevant, well-described content is exposed to large language models.
It generates and maintains <code>llms.txt</code> and <code>llms-full.txt</code> — the emerging standard for telling AI systems (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and others) which pages on your site matter most and what they contain.
Unlike auto-generators that dump every URL into a flat file, LLMs.txt Curator takes a curation-first approach. You choose the pages, organise them into sections, fill descriptions, override titles for AI, validate quality, and see exactly which AI bots are reading your file — all from a single interface.
<h4>What makes this different</h4>
Most llms.txt plugins treat the file as a static output. LLMs.txt Curator treats it as a living asset:
<ul>
<li>Quality Score — every generated file shows your coverage percentage, which pages have descriptions, and which still need attention.</li>
<li>Description Suggestions — one click fills all missing descriptions from a five-step fallback chain (SEO meta → excerpt → Open Graph → page content). Never overwrites what you’ve set manually.</li>
<li>Change Detection — a banner appears in your admin when curated pages have been updated since the last generation, with a Regenerate Now button. Your llms.txt stays current without manual checking.</li>
<li>Per-Page Title Override — set a different title for each page specifically for AI consumption, without touching your on-site SEO.</li>
<li>Safety Mode — blocks generation if validation errors exist, preventing a broken file from going live. Includes an on-demand validator with plain-English results.</li>
<li>AI Crawler Analytics — see which bots visited in the last 7 days, with a visual bar chart. OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, Google — know who is actually reading your file.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Core features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Drag-and-drop curation — reorder sections and pages visually; each section becomes an <code>##</code> heading per the spec</li>
<li>llms-full.txt generation — the companion file with full Markdown content for each curated page</li>
<li>Five SEO plugin integrations — Rank Math, Yoast SEO, All in One SEO, SEOPress, The SEO Framework</li>
<li>Schema-aware descriptions — uses structured data before falling back through the description chain</li>
<li>Scheduled regeneration — choose Instant (on publish), Daily, Weekly, or Manual</li>
<li>WooCommerce support — SKU, price, stock, categories, dimensions; respects product visibility</li>
<li>WordPress Multisite — network-activate across all sites; each site manages its own independent llms.txt; Network Admin overview with per-site and bulk regenerate</li>
<li>Pre-built templates — Business, E-commerce, SaaS, Blog, Local Business</li>
<li>Live preview — see your exact llms.txt output before saving</li>
<li>Import / export — move your configuration between sites as JSON</li>
<li>WP-CLI — <code>wp llms-txt regenerate</code>, <code>wp llms-txt status</code>, <code>wp llms-txt crawler-log</code></li>
<li>REST API — <code>POST /wp-json/llms-txt/v1/regenerate</code>, <code>GET /wp-json/llms-txt/v1/status</code></li>
<li>Atomic file writes — temp file → rename; no half-written files served to bots</li>
<li>ETag/304 caching — proper HTTP headers for CDN revalidation</li>
<li>Subdirectory / Bedrock support — correctly finds the site root on non-standard installs</li>
<li>Robots.txt reference — automatically adds a spec-compliant comment</li>
</ul>
<h4>Description Suggestions in detail</h4>
When pages lack descriptions, AI systems get less context. The suggestion engine fills the gap automatically:
<ol>
<li>Schema markup (Rank Math, custom <code>_schema_json</code>)</li>
<li>SEO plugin meta description</li>
<li>WordPress excerpt</li>
<li>Open Graph description (<code>_og_description</code> / <code>og_description</code>)</li>
<li>First 160 characters of post content</li>
</ol>
Already-set descriptions are never touched. Pages that can’t be filled automatically are listed for manual review.
<h4>Quality Score</h4>
Every generated <code>llms.txt</code> ends with a coverage report:
<pre><code>Quality Score: 94%
Pages included: 48
Pages with descriptions: 45
Pages missing descriptions: 3
</code></pre>
This is visible to the AI systems reading your file, and to you in the Preview tab.
<h4>AI Crawler Analytics</h4>
Track 12 known bots: GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, Meta-ExternalAgent, Bytespider, CCBot, Cohere, DeepSeek, Amazonbot.
The 7-day analytics card shows a visual bar chart of recent activity. All-time totals are kept separately. IP addresses are anonymised before storage — last octet zeroed for IPv4, last 80 bits for IPv6. No data leaves your server.
<h4>Safety Mode</h4>
Before generation, the validator checks:
<ul>
<li>Pages missing or unpublished</li>
<li>Duplicate URLs across sections</li>
<li>Noindex conflicts</li>
<li>Canonical mismatches</li>
<li>Password-protected pages</li>
<li>Thin content (< 100 words, no meta, no excerpt)</li>
<li>File size > 50 KB</li>
<li>Too many pages (> 80)</li>
</ul>
When Safety Mode is on, errors block generation and the results are shown immediately. Warnings are surfaced but don’t block. Everything is explained in plain English.
<h4>Scheduled regeneration</h4>
<ul>
<li>Instant — regenerates ~30 seconds after any page is published or trashed (default)</li>
<li>Daily — once per day, via WP-Cron recurring event</li>
<li>Weekly — once per week</li>
<li>Manual — only when you click Save & Generate</li>
</ul>
<h4>How to get started</h4>
<ol>
<li>Install and activate. The plugin auto-scans your content and creates initial sections.</li>
<li>Curate: drag, drop, add, remove. Aim for 20-60 pages that best represent your site.</li>
<li>Click Generate Missing Descriptions to fill gaps automatically.</li>
<li>Fix any warnings shown in the Safety Mode card.</li>
<li>Set the update mode that suits your workflow.</li>
<li>Save & Generate. Your files are live at <code>/llms.txt</code> and <code>/llms-full.txt</code>.</li>
<li>Enable the AI Crawler Log to see which bots start visiting.</li>
</ol>
<h4>WooCommerce integration</h4>
When WooCommerce is active, the plugin automatically includes SKU, price, and stock status in <code>llms.txt</code> descriptions, and full product details in <code>llms-full.txt</code>. Products with “hidden” visibility are excluded, and you can optionally exclude out-of-stock products.
<h4>Developer hooks</h4>
<ul>
<li><code>llmscu_capability</code> filter — override the required capability (default: <code>manage_options</code>)</li>
<li><code>llmscu_post_limit</code> filter — scanner post limit per type (default: 500)</li>
<li><code>llmscu_full_word_limit</code> filter — per-page word cap in <code>llms-full.txt</code> (default: unlimited)</li>
<li><code>llmscu_regenerated</code> action — fires after each successful regeneration with the content string</li>
</ul>

LLMs.txt Curator

Curate, score, and maintain your llms.txt with quality scoring, description suggestions, change detection, and AI crawler analytics.

OARS Agent Readiness vs LLMs.txt Curator