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Description

Currently, the Layer5 documentation does not generate llms.txt files for AI agents.
This PR aims to enable LLM-friendly content generation by integrating the Hugo Module for llms.txt and llms-full.txt
In addition, this PR adds a View as Markdown link to every page. The link directs users to the generated llms.txt representation of the current page, providing an LLM-friendly Markdown version of the content.

This PR fixes #1205

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  • New Features

    • Added “View as Markdown” links to supported pages, providing machine-readable page content.
    • Added LLM-friendly site outputs, including llms.txt, llms-full.txt, and Markdown formats.
    • Added support for LLM-readable content on standard, list, and video pages.
  • Documentation

    • Documented the “View as Markdown” feature, generated outputs, and related configuration.

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  • CONTRIBUTING.md
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  • layouts/_default/list.llms.txt
  • layouts/_default/list.llmsfull.txt
  • layouts/_default/single.llms.txt
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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The site now generates LLM-friendly page outputs, enables llms.txt files, and displays “View as Markdown” links in page metadata and video layouts.

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LLM-friendly page output

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configure LLM outputs
go.mod, hugo.toml, layouts/_default/*.llms*.txt, CONTRIBUTING.md
Hugo enables llms, llmsfull, and md outputs, imports the llms-txt module, and generates standard and full LLM text templates. Contributor documentation describes the output.
Expose page links
layouts/partials/page-llms-link.html, layouts/partials/page-meta-links.html, layouts/video/video.html
The site renders a “View as Markdown” link when the md output format is available. Page metadata and video layouts include the link partial.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 4f73e

This change adds LLM-friendly documentation outputs and visible Markdown links for pages. The configured output formats and module settings are present, with no remaining concrete merge-blocking risk.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Hugo
  participant llms-txt
  participant LLMTemplates
  participant PageLayout
  Hugo->>llms-txt: Load the LLM output module
  Hugo->>LLMTemplates: Render llms and llmsfull outputs
  LLMTemplates-->>Hugo: Return page content
  PageLayout->>Hugo: Request the md output permalink
  Hugo-->>PageLayout: Return the Markdown link
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Suggested reviewers: rounakkumaragarwal

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 inconclusive)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check ❓ Inconclusive The changes implement the core feature with Markdown and LLM text outputs, visible link partials, and contributor documentation. The provided evidence does not verify the required Hugo core and Docsy … Document the Hugo core and Docsy findings with supporting links, and verify that every content-page layout renders the visible LLM-friendly link.
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Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly states the primary user-visible change: adding a link on every page to an LLM-friendly version.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The dependency, Hugo configuration, templates, visible link partials, and contributor documentation all support the linked issue. No unrelated changes are evident.
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
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Explanation

The changes implement the core feature with Markdown and LLM text outputs, visible link partials, and contributor documentation. The provided evidence does not verify the required Hugo core and Docsy investigation with supporting links, or confirm that every content-page layout invokes the link.

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Signed-off-by: DANIEL KATOTO <katotodan@gmail.com>
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Inline comments:
In `@CONTRIBUTING.md`:
- Around line 29-32: Update the surrounding contribution documentation: change
“has been achieve” to “has been achieved,” use an H2 `References` heading, and
correct both reference links to standard Markdown link syntax so they render
properly.

In `@hugo.toml`:
- Around line 362-366: Move the llms configuration from the root-level [llms]
block into [params.llms], preserving the enable, enable_full, include, and
exclude values with the module’s documented parameter names.

In `@layouts/_default/list.llms-full.txt`:
- Line 1: Rename both templates to use the registered llmsfull output-format
key: change layouts/_default/list.llms-full.txt to
layouts/_default/list.llmsfull.txt and layouts/_default/single.llms-full.txt to
layouts/_default/single.llmsfull.txt. No content changes are required.

In `@layouts/_default/list.llms.txt`:
- Line 5: Update the shared link partial used by page-meta-links.html and
video.html to select the configured md output for the Markdown link, preserving
Markdown formatting such as links, headings, tables, and code fences; update
layouts/partials/page-meta-links.html at line 9 and layouts/video/video.html at
line 14, while leaving layouts/_default/list.llms.txt at line 5 unchanged and
keeping llms as a separate plain-text format.

In `@layouts/_default/single.llms.txt`:
- Line 5: Update the llms template to output the page’s RawContent instead of
Plain, preserving Markdown headings, code fences, tables, and link destinations
while keeping the surrounding template structure unchanged.

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{{ with .Description }}{{ . }}

{{ end }}{{ .Plain }} No newline at end of file

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Still using {{ .Plain }} here — unchanged from CodeRabbit's original comment. This thread shows as resolved because the visible "View as Markdown" link got repointed to the md output format in a later commit (a good fix), not because this line changed.

.Plain strips all Markdown structure — headings, code fences, and link syntax are all lost in the direct llms.txt output.

If that's intentional (llms.txt as a concise, unstructured summary vs. llms-full.txt as the structured version), that's a reasonable design — just worth a maintainer confirming intent here rather than leaving it looking like a missed fix.

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{{ with .Description }}{{ . }}

{{ end }}{{ .Plain }} No newline at end of file

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Still using {{ .Plain }} here — unchanged from CodeRabbit's original comment. This thread shows as resolved because the visible "View as Markdown" link got repointed to the md output format in a later commit (a good fix), not because this line changed.

.Plain strips all Markdown structure — headings, code fences, and link syntax are all lost in the direct llms.txt output.

If that's intentional (llms.txt as a concise, unstructured summary vs. llms-full.txt as the structured version), that's a reasonable design — just worth a maintainer confirming intent here rather than leaving it looking like a missed fix.

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Summary

Reviewed the code directly, including the imported gethugothemes/hugo-modules/llms-txt module source, not just this diff.

What's solid

  • The View as Markdown link (page-llms-link.html) targets .OutputFormats.Get "md", which resolves via the imported module's config.toml and renders through its single.md/list.md templates using .RawContent — so the actual per-page output correctly preserves headings, code fences, and links, satisfying #1205's acceptance criteria.
  • Output formats are wired into home, page, section, taxonomy, and term — broader page-kind coverage than a hand-rolled version would likely have.
  • CONTRIBUTING.md documents the feature with links to the upstream module and the Hugo Discourse thread — satisfies the issue's sourcing/documentation requirement.
  • Generates a spec-aligned site-wide llms.txt / llms-full.txt, grouped by section, via the module's own templates.
  • Checks are green: DCO signed, preview build succeeds, no conflicts with base.

One open item

layouts/_default/single.llms.txt and list.llms.txt still use .Plain — see inline comments. CodeRabbit flagged this exact line; it shows "Resolved," but the code is unchanged. The link itself got redirected elsewhere, which is a good fix for the primary feature, but the direct /page/llms.txt output is still structure-stripped. Worth confirming whether that's intentional.

Minor nit

hugo.toml redefines [outputFormats.llms] / [outputFormats.llmsfull] with values identical to what the imported module's config.toml already provides — redundant, not harmful.

Signed-off-by: DANIEL KATOTO <katotodan@gmail.com>
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Thank you, @RounakKumarAgarwal.
Your review has been taken into account.

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