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title: "agents.md: glossary: Agent Ready HTML"
description: "agents.md defined: On Shopify, the canonical agent-discovery document of a store, mirrored at /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt. A dated, sourced example follows."
canonical: https://agentreadyhtml.com/glossary/agents-md/
site: "Agent Ready HTML"
last_updated: 2026-11-04
section: "Glossary"
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# agents.md: glossary: Agent Ready HTML

> agents.md defined: On Shopify, the canonical agent-discovery document of a store, mirrored at /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt. A dated, sourced example follows.

Source: https://agentreadyhtml.com/glossary/agents-md/
Site: Agent Ready HTML
Last reviewed: 2026-11-04

# agents.md

In short

On Shopify, the canonical agent-discovery document of a store, mirrored at /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt. Example: Shopify manages an agents.md for every store by default. Related terms: Answer provenance, Agent-optimised mirror. Agent-optimised mirror: A separate version of pages served only to AI user agents at the same URLs.

## Source of the example

The example in the summary above is from [shopify.dev](https://shopify.dev/docs/storefronts/themes/architecture/templates/agents-md-liquid), read 4 November 2026.

## Where it shows up on this site

-   [Method](https://agentreadyhtml.com/method/)

## Neighbouring terms

-   [Answer provenance](https://agentreadyhtml.com/glossary/answer-provenance/): Which fetched page an agent answer can be traced to.
-   [Agent-optimised mirror](https://agentreadyhtml.com/glossary/agent-mirror/): A separate version of pages served only to AI user agents at the same URLs.

## Sources

1.  [shopify.dev](https://shopify.dev/docs/storefronts/themes/architecture/templates/agents-md-liquid) https://shopify.dev/docs/storefronts/themes/architecture/templates/agents-md-liquid, read 4 November 2026

Last reviewed 4 November 2026

Edition

Crawl

2026-11-04

Page updated

2026-11-04

Method

How the viewer reads a page, how a file is graded and how a platform is scored: [the method page](https://agentreadyhtml.com/method/).
