--- title: "msu.edu llms.txt, graded: Agent Ready HTML" description: "The msu.edu llms.txt parsed and graded A against the llmstxt.org structure: 2 sections, 5 links, 859 B. Read 2026-11-04." canonical: https://agentreadyhtml.com/llms-txt-index/msu-edu/ site: "Agent Ready HTML" last_updated: 2026-11-05 section: "llms.txt Index" --- # msu.edu llms.txt, graded: Agent Ready HTML > The msu.edu llms.txt parsed and graded A against the llmstxt.org structure: 2 sections, 5 links, 859 B. Read 2026-11-04. Source: https://agentreadyhtml.com/llms-txt-index/msu-edu/ Site: Agent Ready HTML Last reviewed: 2026-11-05 # 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 ```markdown # 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](https://agentreadyhtml.com/llms-txt/). | 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](https://ora.ai/score/msu.edu?utm_source=agentreadyhtml.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=index-entry) 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](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. - [All entries](https://agentreadyhtml.com/llms-txt-index/) - [Edition 2026-11-04](https://agentreadyhtml.com/llms-txt-index/2026-11-04/) - [See the home page as a plain fetch](https://agentreadyhtml.com/viewer/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmsu.edu%2F) ## Sources 1. [msu.edu llms.txt](https://msu.edu/llms.txt) https://msu.edu/llms.txt, read 4 November 2026 2. [llms.txt proposal (llmstxt.org)](https://llmstxt.org/) https://llmstxt.org/, read 4 November 2026 3. [Tranco list 746WX (crawl universe)](https://tranco-list.eu/list/746WX) https://tranco-list.eu/list/746WX, read 4 November 2026 4. [Ora: AgentReady launch post (the 86 percent finding)](https://ora.ai/blog/agentready-launch?utm_source=agentreadyhtml.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=entry) https://ora.ai/blog/agentready-launch, read 4 November 2026 5. [Ora llms.txt (GET /api/score/{domain} looks up a cached score)](https://ora.ai/llms.txt?utm_source=agentreadyhtml.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=entry) https://ora.ai/llms.txt, read 5 November 2026 Last reviewed 5 November 2026 Edition Crawl 2026-11-04 Ora reads 2026-11-05 Page updated 2026-11-05 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/).