Record 17102026 · captured 2026-10-18
0 tracked subjects, 25 discussions, 0 papers. This record is frozen and will not change.
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What the people building things argued about, from Hacker News.
Origins publishing files written for machines rather than people. Measured against a frozen cohort, so a change in the number means a change in adoption.
| Signal | Web head Tranco top 1,000 n=1,000 | Web tail sampled to rank 100k n=1,000 | AI-native model & dev platforms n=110 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Any agent-facing signal | 12.8% (128) | 4.2% (42) | 74.55% (82) |
| llms.txt (apex domain) | 10.5% (105) | 3.5% (35) | 60.91% (67) |
| llms.txt (docs subdomain) | 4.1% (41) | 0.9% (9) | 46.36% (51) |
| .well-known/mcp.json | 0.5% (5) | 0.2% (2) | 9.09% (10) |
| .well-known/agents.txt | 0.3% (3) | 0.1% (1) | 0% (0) |
| ai.txt | 0.3% (3) | 0.1% (1) | 0% (0) |
| ai-plugin.json (deprecated) | 0.7% (7) | 0.2% (2) | 0.91% (1) |
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