hono.dev llms.txt
In short
hono.dev serves a 5.8 KB llms.txt with 3 H2 sections and 94 links, graded A on the llmstxt.org structure (6 of 6 checks). It passes every check. The home page links the file. Read 4 November 2026. The file is one of 2,529 plain-text llms.txt files in this edition of the index.
llms.txt 5.8 KB, 106 lines
# Hono
> Hono - means flameš„ in Japanese - is a small, simple, and ultrafast web framework built on Web Standards. It works on any JavaScript runtime: Cloudflare Workers, Fastly Compute, Deno, Bun, Vercel, Netlify, AWS Lambda, Lambda@Edge, and Node.js.
## Docs
- [Full Docs](https://hono.dev/llms-full.txt) Full documentation of Hono. (without examples)
- [Tiny Docs](https://hono.dev/llms-small.txt): Tiny documentation of Hono. (includes only description of core)
## Examples
- [Examples](https://github.com/honojs/website/tree/main/examples): List of example files.
## Optional
- [Index](https://hono.dev/docs/index)
- [Third Party](https://hono.dev/docs/middleware/third-party)
- [Basic Auth](https://hono.dev/docs/middleware/builtin/basic-auth)
- [Bearer Auth](https://hono.dev/docs/middleware/builtin/bearer-auth)
- [Body Limit](https://hono.dev/docs/middleware/builtin/body-limit)
- [Cache](https://hono.dev/docs/middleware/builtin/cache)
- [Combine](https://hono.dev/docs/middleware/builtin/combine)
- [Compress](https://hono.dev/docs/middleware/builtin/compress)
- [Context Storage](https://hono.dev/docs/middleware/builtin/context-storage)
- [Cors](https://hono.dev/docs/middleware/builtin/cors)
- [Csrf](https://hono.dev/docs/middleware/builtin/csrf)
- [Etag](https://hono.dev/docs/middleware/builtin/etag)
- [Ip Restriction](https://hono.dev/docs/middleware/builtin/ip-restriction)
- [Jsx Renderer](https://hono.dev/docs/middleware/builtin/jsx-renderer)
- [Jwk](https://hono.dev/docs/middleware/builtin/jwk)
- [Jwt](https://hono.dev/docs/middleware/builtin/jwt)
- [Language](https://hono.dev/docs/middleware/builtin/language)
- [Logger](https://hono.dev/docs/middleware/builtin/logger)
- [Method Not-Allowed](https://hono.dev/docs/middleware/builtin/method-not-allowed)
- [Method Override](https://hono.dev/docs/middleware/builtin/method-override)
- [Mount](https://hono.dev/docs/middleware/builtin/mount)
- [Pretty Json](https://hono.dev/docs/middleware/builtin/pretty-json)
- [Request Id](https://hono.dev/docs/middleware/builtin/request-id)
- [Secure Headers](https://hono.dev/docs/middleware/builtin/secure-headers)
- [Timeout](https://hono.dev/docs/middleware/builtin/timeout)
- [Timing](https://hono.dev/docs/middleware/builtin/timing)
- [Trailing Slash](https://hono.dev/docs/middleware/builtin/trailing-slash)
- [Accepts](https://hono.dev/docs/helpers/accepts)
- [Adapter](https://hono.dev/docs/helpers/adapter)
- [Conninfo](https://hono.dev/docs/helpers/conninfo)
- [Cookie](https://hono.dev/docs/helpers/cookie)
- [Css](https://hono.dev/docs/helpers/css)
- [Dev](https://hono.dev/docs/helpers/dev)
- [Factory](https://hono.dev/docs/helpers/factory)
- [Html](https://hono.dev/docs/helpers/html)
- [Jwt](https://hono.dev/docs/helpers/jwt)
- [Proxy](https://hono.dev/docs/helpers/proxy)
- [Route](https://hono.dev/docs/helpers/route)
- [Ssg](https://hono.dev/docs/helpers/ssg)
- [Streaming](https://hono.dev/docs/helpers/streaming)
- [Testing](https://hono.dev/docs/helpers/testing)
- [Websocket](https://hono.dev/docs/helpers/websocket)
- [Best Practices](https://hono.dev/docs/guides/best-practices)
- [Create Hono](https://hono.dev/docs/guides/create-hono)
- [Examples](https://hono.dev/docs/guides/examples)
- [Faq](https://hono.dev/docs/guides/faq)
- [Helpers](https://hono.dev/docs/guides/helpers)
- [Jsx Dom](https://hono.dev/docs/guides/jsx-dom)
- [Jsx](https://hono.dev/docs/guides/jsx)
- [Middleware](https://hono.dev/docs/guides/middleware)
- [Migrating To-V5](https://hono.dev/docs/guides/migrating-to-v5)
- [Others](https://hono.dev/docs/guides/others)
- [Rpc](https://hono.dev/docs/guides/rpc)
- [Testing](https://hono.dev/docs/guides/testing)
- [Validation](https://hono.dev/docs/guides/validation)
First 70 of 106 lines.
Parse graded A, 6 of 6
file: https://hono.dev/llms.txt
Hono
Hono - means flameš„ in Japanese - is a small, simple, and ultrafast web framework built on Web Standards. It works on any JavaScript runtime: Cloudflare Workers, Fastly Compute, Deno, Bun, Vercel, Netlify, AWS Lambda, Lambda@Edge, and Node.js.
3 sections, 94 links, an Optional section.
Ora's cached score: 63, grade C, scanned 29 October 2026.
The parse
hono.dev lists 94 links: 93 point at hono.dev or a relative path, 1 point elsewhere. The hosts it links most: hono.dev (93), github.com (1).
| H2 section | Links |
|---|---|
| Docs | 2 |
| Examples | 1 |
| Optional | 91 |
Grade against the llmstxt.org structure
The file passes all six checks. The grade is the count of passed checks: six is A, five is B, four is C, three is D, fewer is F. It measures structure only. Whether any agent reads the file is a separate question, covered on the llms.txt reference.
| Check | Result | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Starts with an H1 naming the site or project | Pass | H1: Hono |
| Has a blockquote summary under the H1 | Pass | Blockquote summary found. |
| Has at least one H2 section that lists links | Pass | 3 H2 sections, 3 with links. |
| At least 80 percent of links point at the same site | Pass | 93 of 94 links stay on hono.dev (99 percent). |
| Under 100 KB | Pass | 5925 bytes as served. |
| Plain markdown, no HTML | Pass | No HTML document markers in the body. |
Ora's cached score
Ora's cached report for hono.dev gives it 63 of 100, grade C, scanned on 29 October 2026. Its Access layer, which holds the read-layer checks below, scored 28 of 55 check points. Read from GET ora.ai/api/score/hono.dev on 5 November 2026. The score is Ora's, not this site's, and the structure grade above is a different measure: it grades the llms.txt file against the llmstxt.org proposal, while Ora's score covers the whole site. Ora's report for hono.dev has every layer.
| Ora check (Access layer) | Result | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Sitemap exists | Fail | 0 of 2 |
| Content without JavaScript | Pass | 3 of 3 |
| Not blocked by bot detection | Pass | 2 of 2 |
| Markdown URL fallback | Fail | 0 of 2 |
| llms.txt exists | Pass | 1 of 1 |
| llms.txt formatting | Pass | 2 of 2 |
| JSON-LD structured data | Fail | 0 of 4 |
| Metadata completeness | Partial | 1 of 2 |
| llms.txt links resolve | Pass | 2 of 2 |
| Markdown alternate link | Partial | 0 of 1 |
| Redirect hygiene | Pass | 1 of 1 |
| Page token budget | Pass | 1 of 1 |
| Code fence validity | Pass | 1 of 1 |
| Content behind auth | Pass | 2 of 2 |
| OpenAPI spec published | Fail | 0 of 7 |
| Markdown agent docs | Pass | 1 of 1 |
| Markdown negotiation with Vary | Fail | 0 of 1 |
| Markdown for agent user agents | Fail | 0 of 1 |
| Agent crawler reachability | Pass | 2 of 2 |
Linking and the companion file
The home page of hono.dev links the file in its HTML. Ora's lab found (2026-10-19) that 86 percent of llms.txt fetches by agents arrived through a link, so an unlinked file is mostly a file nobody opens.
How it compares
At 5.8 KB the file is larger than 40 percent of the 2,529 plain-text llms.txt files in this edition, and its 94 links put it ahead of 78 percent of them on link count. The home page declares no generator. Size bucket: 2 to 10 KB. Curated example. Category: Framework.
Why it is in the index: Web framework docs index. Owner as listed: Hono.
Live file: https://hono.dev/llms.txt. Read 4 November 2026. If the file has since changed or gone, the live URL is the authority; this page records what the crawl read on that date.
Sources
- hono.dev llms.txt https://hono.dev/llms.txt, read 4 November 2026
- llms.txt proposal (llmstxt.org) https://llmstxt.org/, read 4 November 2026
- Tranco list 746WX (crawl universe) https://tranco-list.eu/list/746WX, read 4 November 2026
- Ora: AgentReady launch post (the 86 percent finding) https://ora.ai/blog/agentready-launch, read 4 November 2026
- Ora llms.txt (GET /api/score/{domain} looks up a cached score) https://ora.ai/llms.txt, read 5 November 2026
Last reviewed 5 November 2026