msu.edu llms.txt
In short
msu.edu serves a 859 B llms.txt with 2 H2 sections and 5 links, graded A on the llmstxt.org structure (6 of 6 checks). It passes every check. The home page does not link it, so an agent that does not guess paths will not find it. No llms-full.txt was found. Read 4 November 2026.
llms.txt 859 B, 21 lines
# Michigan State University
> The official Michigan State University web presence, powered by Sitecore XM Cloud. MSU is a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan, offering undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs across a wide range of disciplines.
This site delivers news, academic programs, events, people directories, and institutional content via a headless CMS architecture built on the Sitecore Content SDK for Next.js.
## Key pages
- [Home](https://msu.edu/): MSU main landing page
## Optional
- [Sitemap](https://msu.edu/sitemap.xml): Full XML sitemap for search engines
- [LLM Sitemap](https://msu.edu/sitemap-llm.xml): LLM-optimized sitemap for AI crawlers
- [Robots](https://msu.edu/robots.txt): Crawler and bot access rules
- [AI metadata](https://msu.edu/.well-known/ai.txt): AI crawler and LLM metadata (ai.txt)
First 19 of 21 lines.
Parse graded A, 6 of 6
file: https://msu.edu/llms.txt
Michigan State University
The official Michigan State University web presence, powered by Sitecore XM Cloud. MSU is a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan, offering undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs across a wide range of disciplines.
2 sections, 5 links, an Optional section.
Ora's cached score: 39, grade D, scanned 8 September 2026.
The parse
msu.edu lists 5 links: 5 point at msu.edu or a relative path, 0 point elsewhere. The hosts it links most: msu.edu (5).
| H2 section | Links |
|---|---|
| Key pages | 1 |
| Optional | 4 |
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: Michigan State University |
| Has a blockquote summary under the H1 | Pass | Blockquote summary found. |
| Has at least one H2 section that lists links | Pass | 2 H2 sections, 2 with links. |
| At least 80 percent of links point at the same site | Pass | 5 of 5 links stay on msu.edu (100 percent). |
| Under 100 KB | Pass | 859 bytes as served. |
| Plain markdown, no HTML | Pass | No HTML document markers in the body. |
Ora's cached score
Ora's cached report for msu.edu gives it 39 of 100, grade D, scanned on 8 September 2026. Its Access layer, which holds the read-layer checks below, scored 32 of 61 check points. Read from GET ora.ai/api/score/msu.edu 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 msu.edu has every layer.
| Ora check (Access layer) | Result | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Sitemap exists | Pass | 2 of 2 |
| Content without JavaScript | Fail | 0 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 | Fail | 0 of 2 |
| llms.txt links resolve | Partial | 1 of 2 |
| Markdown alternate link | Fail | 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 | Fail | 0 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 msu.edu does not link 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. No llms-full.txt was found at the same root.
How it compares
At 859 B the file is larger than 2 percent of the 2,529 plain-text llms.txt files in this edition, and its 5 links put it ahead of 14 percent of them on link count. The home page declares no generator. Size bucket: Under 2 KB. Tranco rank 2,008. Category: Top 10,000, no category.
Live file: https://msu.edu/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
- msu.edu llms.txt https://msu.edu/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