Good initiative, this is getting more important these days for agents, so sites should indeed adapt to those as well.
Funny think is I did exactly the same with our internal airflow documentation site so our agents can easily read it as well. General (Internal Property) ________________________________ From: Sameer Mesiah <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 7, 2026 01:01 To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [CONTRIBUTION OPPORTUNITY] llms.txt and Markdown docs for coding agents for Airflow site EXTERNAL MAIL: Indien je de afzender van deze e-mail niet kent en deze niet vertrouwt, klik niet op een link of open geen bijlages. Bij twijfel, stuur deze e-mail als bijlage naar [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. I understand. I don't believe I should have much issue getting a committer to help me with all of that. In case I am not able to get a committer to assist me, I will inform you and we can hand it to someone who is a committer or has that assistance. Thanks, Sameer. On Tue, 6 Oct 2026 at 23:53, Kaxil Naik <[email protected]> wrote: > Absolutely happy for you to take it as long as you can pair with a commiter > because of the testing requirements I mentioned in the previous email and > the GitHub issue. > > *It needs a committer, or a contributor pairing with one: testing the > airflow-site change on staging, publishing docs and checking the live > rollout all need committer access.* > > On Tue, 6 Oct 2026 at 23:39, Sameer Mesiah <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Kaxil, > > > > I can pick this up if you are okay with it. > > > > On Tue, 6 Oct 2026 at 23:28, Kaxil Naik <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > More and more people write Dags with coding agents (Claude Code, > Cursor, > > > Copilot, Codex), and those agents read our docs as HTML. A provider > guide > > > page is about 150 KB of HTML for about 20 KB of content, and fetch > tools > > > often summarise it down to a paragraph, code samples included. Pydantic > > AI, > > > Ray, Camel, Astronomer and most of the popular sites & project publish > an > > > llms.txt index plus a Markdown copy of each page. We publish neither. > > > > > > I've opened an issue with a plan and a working proof of concept, > starting > > > with the Common AI provider docs: > > > > > > https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fapache%2Fairflow%2Fissues%2F74376&data=05%7C02%7Cdavid.blain%40infrabel.be%7C8b25c7e9d32b4dfa939808df23fdc912%7Cb82bc314ab8e4d6fb18946f02e1f27f2%7C0%7C0%7C639269245055449115%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=rHwv1AaT41G789YkOXh7cINsukGuOc7fUn0%2FItMXHyo%3D&reserved=0<https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues/74376> > > > > > > It has three parts: > > > > > > 1. Docs build: generate page.html.md next to every page, plus llms.txt > > and > > > llms-full.txt, using sphinx-llm and a small extension. The proof of > > concept > > > builds cleanly for Common AI with no change in build time. > > > 2. Publishing: a couple of guards in breeze so stable/ always has the > > > Markdown copies. > > > 3. Serving: Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot and OpenCode already send > > "Accept: > > > text/markdown" on every fetch. A short .htaccess rule in airflow-site > can > > > answer those requests with the Markdown copy, so agents get it from the > > > URLs they already use. I tested this on airflow.staged.apache.org; > ASF's > > > Fastly cache keeps the HTML and Markdown answers apart. > > > > > > *I won't have time to build this or to review it, so it needs an owner > > who > > > can see it through, including reviews.* The issue lists what's done, > > what's > > > left, and the rollout constraints. It needs a committer, or a > contributor > > > pairing with one: testing the airflow-site change on staging, > publishing > > > docs and checking the live rollout all need committer access. > > > > > > This would be a high impact change, so thanks in advance for whoever > > picks > > > it up. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Kaxil > > > > > >
