AI Product Scout · Blog What Is llms.txt and Why Your WooCommerce Store Needs It llms.txt is the new robots.txt for AI . Learn what it is, how it works, and why every WooCommerce store needs one to be discoverable by ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI assistants. June 8, 2026  ·  6 min read The analogy: robots.txt → llms.txt If you've ever managed a website, you know robots.txt . It sits at the root of your domain and tells search engine crawlers like Googlebot what to index and what to skip. llms.txt does the same thing — but for a completely different audience. Side by side **robots.txt** → tells **search engine crawlers** what to index **llms.txt** → tells **AI models** what your site is about Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode Same concept. New audience. Instead of optimizing for Google's index, you're optimizing for ChatGPT's context window. What exactly is llms.txt? llms.txt is a plain text file served at /llms.txt on your domain.…