AI Communication Standards Glossary
Definitions for the file formats, protocols, and standards used to make websites communicate with AI systems.
A
- AI Sitemap
- A structured JSON file that gives AI systems a typed, organized index of a website's content ... more detailed and machine-useful than a standard sitemap.xml.
E
- Entity Map
- A structured inventory of the real-world entities (people, organizations, concepts, topics) that a website covers, with their definitions and relationships.
L
- llm.json
- A structured JSON file that provides machine-parseable identity and metadata about a website, designed for AI systems, data pipelines, and retrieval tools.
- llms.txt
- A plain-text file placed at a website's root that gives AI language models a concise, human-readable overview of what the site is and what it contains.