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What is AI Ingestion?

AI ingestion is the process of making your documentation accessible and consumable by Large Language Models (LLMs) and other AI tools. By properly formatting and exposing your documentation, you can:

Enhanced AI Integration

Enable AI tools to better understand and process your documentation content

Improved Accessibility

Make your content more accessible to various AI-powered tools and platforms

Better User Experience

Allow users to interact with your documentation through AI-powered interfaces

Efficient Processing

Optimize how AI tools consume and analyze your documentation

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Available Formats and Shortcuts

Mintlify automatically generates multiple formats of your documentation to support different AI ingestion needs. Here’s a comprehensive guide to each format:

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1. llms.txt Format

The llms.txt format follows the industry standard specification for helping LLMs efficiently index content, similar to how sitemaps work for search engines.

Every documentation site automatically hosts a /llms.txt file at the root that provides a structured list of all available pages.

Open llms.txt for this site

Example structure of llms.txt:

https://your-docs.com/getting-started
https://your-docs.com/api-reference
https://your-docs.com/guides/authentication

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2. llms-full.txt Format

This format is ideal when you need to provide complete documentation context to AI tools for comprehensive analysis or training.

The /llms-full.txt endpoint provides a complete markdown version of your entire documentation in a single file.

Open llms-full.txt for this site

Use cases include:

  • Training custom AI models
  • Building documentation-aware chatbots
  • Creating comprehensive search indices

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3. Markdown Version (.md)

Adding .md to any page URL provides a markdown version of that specific page, optimized for AI processing.

Simply append .md to any documentation URL to access its markdown version:

https://your-docs.com/api-reference.md
https://your-docs.com/getting-started.md
Open quickstart.md

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4. Quick Access Features

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Contextual Menu

Enable the contextual menu to provide users with quick actions:

  • Copy markdown source
  • View markdown source
  • Open content directly in ChatGPT

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Keyboard Shortcut

Use ⌘ + c (or Ctrl + c on Windows) to quickly copy the markdown source of any page.

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Best Practices for AI Ingestion

Follow these guidelines to maximize the effectiveness of AI ingestion:

Avoid including sensitive information in your documentation as it will be accessible through these AI ingestion endpoints.

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Implementation Examples

Here’s how you might use these formats in different scenarios:

import requests

# Fetch markdown version of a specific page
response = requests.get('https://your-docs.com/api-reference.md')
markdown_content = response.text

# Process with an AI tool
ai_response = process_with_ai(markdown_content)