The file is served but contains nothing. An empty llms.txt is worse than none at all: an assistant requests it, gets a valid response, and learns nothing, when it could have spent that request discovering your pages another way.
/llms.txt returns 200 with an empty or whitespace-only body.
Fill it in, or remove it so assistants fall back to your sitemap and links:
# Example Corp
> One sentence describing what this site is.
## Documentation
- [Getting started](https://example.com/docs/start)A file that exists is treated as authoritative. Making it say something real is what turns the request into useful information.
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