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If you are building autonomous workflows or using an AI assistant to manage your Encord projects, you can inject our platform’s abilities and sitemap directly into your agent’s context.

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Why Use Machine-Readable Docs?

While standard docs are for humans, llms.txt and skill.md provide a source of truth designed specifically for Large Language Models:
  • Reduce Hallucinations: Explicit constraints in skill.md prevent agents from guessing API parameters or using deprecated methods.
  • Token Efficiency: We strip away the HTML and UI “noise,” saving your context window space and reducing API costs.
  • Complete Site Mapping: llms.txt provides a lightweight index so agents do not have to “crawl” your site to find the right page.
  • Autonomous Action: Workflow definitions enable agents to actually execute tasks rather than just explain how they might be done.
FileThe AnalogyUse Case
llms.txtThe SitemapHelping an LLM find the right information.
skill.mdThe SkillsetHelping an agent do work on the Encord platform.

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How to Get Your Agent Ready

Agents can consume these files in two ways: using a direct URL, or using the Skills CLI.

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The Discovery Index (llms.txt)

Point your LLM or RAG system to our documentation index. This file contains a curated list of all pages and their descriptions in a format LLMs can parse instantly. URL: https://docs.encord.com/llms.txt

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The Skills CLI (skill.md)

For agents that need to understand Encord’s specific capabilities and workflows, use the Skills client. 1. Install the CLI 
npm install -g skills
2. Add Encord’s Capabilities Run the following command to point your agent to our machine-readable metadata: 
npx skills add docs.encord.com