docs: publish llms.txt and llms-full.txt for agent-friendly ingestion (NousResearch#18276)

Two machine-readable entry points to the Hermes Agent docs:

  /llms.txt         curated index of every doc page, one link per page
                    with short descriptions. ~17 KB, safe to load into
                    an LLM context window.
  /llms-full.txt    every page under website/docs/ concatenated as markdown.
                    ~1.8 MB. For one-shot ingestion by coding agents and
                    RAG pipelines.

Both files are also served from /docs/llms.txt and /docs/llms-full.txt
(Docusaurus serves website/static/ under baseUrl=/docs/). Some agents and
IDE plugins probe the classic site-root path; the deploy workflow now copies
both files to _site root so either URL works.

Conforms to the emerging llmstxt.org spec: H1 project name, blockquote
summary, short install command, GitHub link, then curated sections
mirroring the docs-site navigation (Getting Started, Using Hermes,
Features, Messaging, Integrations, Guides, Developer Guide, Reference).

Generated by website/scripts/generate-llms-txt.py. Wired into prebuild.mjs
so every 'npm run build' and 'npm run start' refreshes the files alongside
the existing skills.json extraction. Both outputs are gitignored (same
precedent as src/data/skills.json).

Descriptions in llms.txt are pulled from each page's frontmatter, so they
stay current automatically. All ~80 section slugs are validated against
the filesystem at generation time; an invalid slug would fail the prebuild.

Author: teknium1

.github/workflows/deploy-site.yml

@@ -76,6 +76,16 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           mkdir -p _site/docs
           cp -r website/build/* _site/docs/
+          # llms.txt / llms-full.txt are also published at the site root
+          # (https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/llms.txt) because some
+          # agents and IDE plugins probe the classic root-level path rather
+          # than /docs/llms.txt. Same file, two URLs, one source of truth.
+          if [ -f website/build/llms.txt ]; then
+            cp website/build/llms.txt _site/llms.txt
+          fi
+          if [ -f website/build/llms-full.txt ]; then
+            cp website/build/llms-full.txt _site/llms-full.txt
+          fi
 
       - name: Upload artifact
         uses: actions/upload-pages-artifact@56afc609e74202658d3ffba0e8f6dda462b719fa  # v3

website/.gitignore

@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
 .docusaurus
 .cache-loader
 src/data/skills.json
+static/llms.txt
+static/llms-full.txt
 
 # Misc
 .DS_Store

website/docs/index.md

@@ -55,3 +55,12 @@ It's not a coding copilot tethered to an IDE or a chatbot wrapper around a singl
 - **Full web control** — Search, extract, browse, vision, image generation, TTS
 - **MCP support** — Connect to any MCP server for extended tool capabilities
 - **Research-ready** — Batch processing, trajectory export, RL training with Atropos. Built by [Nous Research](https://nousresearch.com) — the lab behind Hermes, Nomos, and Psyche models
+
+## For LLMs and coding agents
+
+Machine-readable entry points to this documentation:
+
+- **[`/llms.txt`](/llms.txt)** — curated index of every doc page with short descriptions. ~17 KB, safe to load into an LLM context.
+- **[`/llms-full.txt`](/llms-full.txt)** — every doc page concatenated into a single markdown file for one-shot ingestion. ~1.8 MB.
+
+Both files also resolve at `/docs/llms.txt` and `/docs/llms-full.txt`. Generated fresh on every deploy.

website/scripts/generate-llms-txt.py

@@ -0,0 +1,304 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Generate llms.txt and llms-full.txt for the Hermes docs site.
+
+Outputs:
+  website/static/llms.txt        — short curated index of the docs, one link per page,
+                                    grouped by section. Conforms to https://llmstxt.org.
+  website/static/llms-full.txt   — every `.md` file under `website/docs/` concatenated,
+                                    with `# <title>` headings and `<!-- source: … -->`
+                                    comments separating files.
+
+Both publish at:
+  https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/llms.txt
+  https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/llms-full.txt
+
+The `/docs/` prefix is not a mistake — Docusaurus serves `website/static/`
+at the `docs/` base path. Clients and IDE plugins that probe the classic
+`/llms.txt` root will miss these. Document the canonical URLs in the docs
+index and in the repo README.
+
+Called from `website/scripts/prebuild.mjs` on every `npm run start` /
+`npm run build` so the output stays in sync with the docs tree.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import re
+from pathlib import Path
+
+SCRIPT_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent
+WEBSITE = SCRIPT_DIR.parent
+DOCS = WEBSITE / "docs"
+STATIC = WEBSITE / "static"
+
+SITE_BASE = "https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs"
+
+# Curated sections for llms.txt — mirrors the product story, not the filesystem.
+# Each entry: (docs-relative path without .md, display title, optional short desc).
+# `None` desc → pulled from frontmatter `description:` field.
+SECTIONS: list[tuple[str, list[tuple[str, str, str | None]]]] = [
+    ("Getting Started", [
+        ("getting-started/installation", "Installation", None),
+        ("getting-started/quickstart", "Quickstart", None),
+        ("getting-started/learning-path", "Learning Path", None),
+        ("getting-started/updating", "Updating", None),
+        ("getting-started/termux", "Termux (Android)", None),
+        ("getting-started/nix-setup", "Nix Setup", None),
+    ]),
+    ("Using Hermes", [
+        ("user-guide/cli", "CLI", None),
+        ("user-guide/tui", "TUI (Ink terminal UI)", None),
+        ("user-guide/configuration", "Configuration", None),
+        ("user-guide/configuring-models", "Configuring Models", None),
+        ("user-guide/sessions", "Sessions", None),
+        ("user-guide/profiles", "Profiles", None),
+        ("user-guide/git-worktrees", "Git Worktrees", None),
+        ("user-guide/docker", "Docker Backend", None),
+        ("user-guide/security", "Security", None),
+        ("user-guide/checkpoints-and-rollback", "Checkpoints & Rollback", None),
+    ]),
+    ("Core Features", [
+        ("user-guide/features/overview", "Features Overview", None),
+        ("user-guide/features/tools", "Tools", None),
+        ("user-guide/features/skills", "Skills System", None),
+        ("user-guide/features/curator", "Curator", None),
+        ("user-guide/features/memory", "Memory", None),
+        ("user-guide/features/memory-providers", "Memory Providers", None),
+        ("user-guide/features/context-files", "Context Files", None),
+        ("user-guide/features/context-references", "Context References", None),
+        ("user-guide/features/personality", "Personality & SOUL.md", None),
+        ("user-guide/features/plugins", "Plugins", None),
+        ("user-guide/features/built-in-plugins", "Built-in Plugins", None),
+    ]),
+    ("Automation", [
+        ("user-guide/features/cron", "Cron Jobs", None),
+        ("user-guide/features/delegation", "Delegation", None),
+        ("user-guide/features/kanban", "Kanban Multi-Agent", None),
+        ("user-guide/features/kanban-tutorial", "Kanban Tutorial", None),
+        ("user-guide/features/code-execution", "Code Execution", None),
+        ("user-guide/features/hooks", "Hooks", None),
+        ("user-guide/features/batch-processing", "Batch Processing", None),
+    ]),
+    ("Media & Web", [
+        ("user-guide/features/voice-mode", "Voice Mode", None),
+        ("user-guide/features/browser", "Browser", None),
+        ("user-guide/features/vision", "Vision", None),
+        ("user-guide/features/image-generation", "Image Generation", None),
+        ("user-guide/features/tts", "Text-to-Speech", None),
+    ]),
+    ("Messaging Platforms", [
+        ("user-guide/messaging/index", "Overview", None),
+        ("user-guide/messaging/telegram", "Telegram", None),
+        ("user-guide/messaging/discord", "Discord", None),
+        ("user-guide/messaging/slack", "Slack", None),
+        ("user-guide/messaging/whatsapp", "WhatsApp", None),
+        ("user-guide/messaging/signal", "Signal", None),
+        ("user-guide/messaging/email", "Email", None),
+        ("user-guide/messaging/sms", "SMS", None),
+        ("user-guide/messaging/matrix", "Matrix", None),
+        ("user-guide/messaging/mattermost", "Mattermost", None),
+        ("user-guide/messaging/homeassistant", "Home Assistant", None),
+        ("user-guide/messaging/webhooks", "Webhooks", None),
+    ]),
+    ("Integrations", [
+        ("integrations/index", "Integrations Overview", None),
+        ("integrations/providers", "Providers", None),
+        ("user-guide/features/mcp", "MCP (Model Context Protocol)", None),
+        ("user-guide/features/acp", "ACP (Agent Context Protocol)", None),
+        ("user-guide/features/api-server", "API Server", None),
+        ("user-guide/features/honcho", "Honcho Memory", None),
+        ("user-guide/features/provider-routing", "Provider Routing", None),
+        ("user-guide/features/fallback-providers", "Fallback Providers", None),
+        ("user-guide/features/credential-pools", "Credential Pools", None),
+    ]),
+    ("Guides & Tutorials", [
+        ("guides/tips", "Tips & Best Practices", None),
+        ("guides/local-llm-on-mac", "Local LLMs on Mac", None),
+        ("guides/daily-briefing-bot", "Daily Briefing Bot", None),
+        ("guides/team-telegram-assistant", "Team Telegram Assistant", None),
+        ("guides/python-library", "Use Hermes as a Python Library", None),
+        ("guides/use-mcp-with-hermes", "Use MCP with Hermes", None),
+        ("guides/use-voice-mode-with-hermes", "Use Voice Mode with Hermes", None),
+        ("guides/use-soul-with-hermes", "Use SOUL.md with Hermes", None),
+        ("guides/build-a-hermes-plugin", "Build a Hermes Plugin", None),
+        ("guides/automate-with-cron", "Automate with Cron", None),
+        ("guides/work-with-skills", "Work with Skills", None),
+        ("guides/delegation-patterns", "Delegation Patterns", None),
+        ("guides/github-pr-review-agent", "GitHub PR Review Agent", None),
+    ]),
+    ("Developer Guide", [
+        ("developer-guide/contributing", "Contributing", None),
+        ("developer-guide/architecture", "Architecture", None),
+        ("developer-guide/agent-loop", "Agent Loop", None),
+        ("developer-guide/prompt-assembly", "Prompt Assembly", None),
+        ("developer-guide/context-compression-and-caching", "Context Compression & Caching", None),
+        ("developer-guide/gateway-internals", "Gateway Internals", None),
+        ("developer-guide/session-storage", "Session Storage", None),
+        ("developer-guide/provider-runtime", "Provider Runtime", None),
+        ("developer-guide/adding-tools", "Adding Tools", None),
+        ("developer-guide/adding-providers", "Adding Providers", None),
+        ("developer-guide/adding-platform-adapters", "Adding Platform Adapters", None),
+        ("developer-guide/creating-skills", "Creating Skills", None),
+        ("developer-guide/extending-the-cli", "Extending the CLI", None),
+    ]),
+    ("Reference", [
+        ("reference/cli-commands", "CLI Commands", None),
+        ("reference/slash-commands", "Slash Commands", None),
+        ("reference/profile-commands", "Profile Commands", None),
+        ("reference/environment-variables", "Environment Variables", None),
+        ("reference/tools-reference", "Tools Reference", None),
+        ("reference/toolsets-reference", "Toolsets Reference", None),
+        ("reference/mcp-config-reference", "MCP Config Reference", None),
+        ("reference/model-catalog", "Model Catalog", None),
+        ("reference/skills-catalog", "Bundled Skills Catalog", "Table of all ~90 skills bundled with Hermes"),
+        ("reference/optional-skills-catalog", "Optional Skills Catalog", "Table of ~60 additional installable skills"),
+        ("reference/faq", "FAQ & Troubleshooting", None),
+    ]),
+]
+
+
+FRONTMATTER_RE = re.compile(r"^---\s*\n(.*?)\n---\s*\n", re.DOTALL)
+DESC_RE = re.compile(r"^description:\s*[\"'](.+?)[\"']\s*$", re.MULTILINE)
+TITLE_RE = re.compile(r"^title:\s*[\"'](.+?)[\"']\s*$", re.MULTILINE)
+
+
+def read_frontmatter(path: Path) -> tuple[dict[str, str], str]:
+    """Return ({title, description}, body-markdown) for a doc file."""
+    text = path.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+    m = FRONTMATTER_RE.match(text)
+    meta: dict[str, str] = {}
+    body = text
+    if m:
+        fm = m.group(1)
+        body = text[m.end():]
+        dm = DESC_RE.search(fm)
+        if dm:
+            meta["description"] = dm.group(1)
+        tm = TITLE_RE.search(fm)
+        if tm:
+            meta["title"] = tm.group(1)
+    return meta, body
+
+
+def resolve_desc(slug: str, provided: str | None) -> str:
+    """Resolve short description for llms.txt entry."""
+    if provided:
+        return provided
+    path = DOCS / f"{slug}.md"
+    if not path.exists():
+        path = DOCS / slug / "index.md"
+    if not path.exists():
+        return ""
+    meta, _ = read_frontmatter(path)
+    return meta.get("description", "")
+
+
+def emit_llms_index() -> str:
+    """Build the short llms.txt index."""
+    lines: list[str] = []
+    lines.append("# Hermes Agent")
+    lines.append("")
+    lines.append(
+        "> The self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research. A terminal-native "
+        "autonomous coding and task agent with persistent memory, agent-created skills, "
+        "and a messaging gateway that lives on 15+ platforms (Telegram, Discord, Slack, "
+        "SMS, Matrix, ...). Runs on local, Docker, SSH, Daytona, Modal, or Singularity "
+        "backends. Works with Nous Portal, OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or any "
+        "OpenAI-compatible endpoint."
+    )
+    lines.append("")
+    lines.append(
+        "Install: `curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/"
+        "hermes-agent/main/scripts/install.sh | bash`  "
+        "(Linux, macOS, WSL2, Termux)"
+    )
+    lines.append("")
+    lines.append("Repo: https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent")
+    lines.append("")
+
+    for section, items in SECTIONS:
+        lines.append(f"## {section}")
+        lines.append("")
+        for slug, title, desc_override in items:
+            desc = resolve_desc(slug, desc_override)
+            url = f"{SITE_BASE}/{slug}"
+            if desc:
+                lines.append(f"- [{title}]({url}): {desc}")
+            else:
+                lines.append(f"- [{title}]({url})")
+        lines.append("")
+    return "\n".join(lines).rstrip() + "\n"
+
+
+def emit_llms_full() -> str:
+    """Concatenate every doc under website/docs/ into a single markdown file.
+
+    Order: mirrors the curated SECTIONS list first (so the most important
+    pages are front-loaded for agents that truncate on token budget), then
+    appends any remaining .md files sorted by path.
+    """
+    seen: set[Path] = set()
+    chunks: list[str] = [
+        "# Hermes Agent — Full Documentation\n",
+        (
+            "This file is the entire Hermes Agent documentation concatenated for LLM "
+            "context ingestion. Section order reflects docs-site navigation: Getting "
+            "Started, Using Hermes, Features, Messaging, Integrations, Guides, "
+            "Developer Guide, Reference, then everything else.\n"
+        ),
+        "Canonical site: https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs\n",
+        "Short index: https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/llms.txt\n",
+        "\n---\n\n",
+    ]
+
+    def emit_file(rel: str) -> None:
+        path = DOCS / f"{rel}.md"
+        if not path.exists():
+            path = DOCS / rel / "index.md"
+        if not path.exists() or path in seen:
+            return
+        seen.add(path)
+        meta, body = read_frontmatter(path)
+        title = meta.get("title") or rel
+        chunks.append(f"<!-- source: website/docs/{path.relative_to(DOCS)} -->\n")
+        chunks.append(f"# {title}\n\n")
+        chunks.append(body.rstrip() + "\n\n---\n\n")
+
+    # Curated order first
+    for _, items in SECTIONS:
+        for slug, _t, _d in items:
+            emit_file(slug)
+
+    # Everything else (sorted, skipping already emitted and auto-gen skill pages
+    # — those are covered by the two catalog reference pages, emitting every
+    # individual skill would add ~1.4 MB of largely duplicative material).
+    for path in sorted(DOCS.rglob("*.md")):
+        if path in seen:
+            continue
+        rel = path.relative_to(DOCS)
+        parts = rel.parts
+        if len(parts) >= 3 and parts[0] == "user-guide" and parts[1] == "skills" \
+                and parts[2] in ("bundled", "optional"):
+            continue
+        seen.add(path)
+        meta, body = read_frontmatter(path)
+        title = meta.get("title") or str(rel)
+        chunks.append(f"<!-- source: website/docs/{rel} -->\n")
+        chunks.append(f"# {title}\n\n")
+        chunks.append(body.rstrip() + "\n\n---\n\n")
+
+    return "".join(chunks).rstrip() + "\n"
+
+
+def main() -> None:
+    STATIC.mkdir(exist_ok=True)
+    index = emit_llms_index()
+    full = emit_llms_full()
+    (STATIC / "llms.txt").write_text(index, encoding="utf-8")
+    (STATIC / "llms-full.txt").write_text(full, encoding="utf-8")
+    print(f"Wrote {STATIC / 'llms.txt'} ({len(index):,} bytes)")
+    print(f"Wrote {STATIC / 'llms-full.txt'} ({len(full):,} bytes)")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()