Definition
An emerging standard (2024) — a plain-text file at the domain root that summarizes what the site is and lists its canonical pages so AI agents can understand it without crawling all the HTML. The generative-engine counterpart of robots.txt and sitemap.xml, and a core GEO tactic.
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is-a / broader
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types-of / more specific
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