# LLMS-Explorer — vocabulary > Terms of this niche, one per line: canonical name, definition, how it differs from its neighbours (`not:`), and the words people use instead (`aka:`). Read before the index when a term is unfamiliar. 78 terms, 15 with a definition; each line ends in the URL its definition came from. ## Terms - **Attribute** — The attribute rubric — Every attribute an llms file is judged on, with bars and severities. — https://llms-explorer.com/reference/attributes/ - **Measure** — The directory and its grades — What the directory measures, how the A–F grade is derived, and why the mirrored text is never republished. — https://llms-explorer.com/reference/directory/ - **Notes** — notes-to-llms-txt — Turns disorganized notes — a scratch file, a run of meeting notes, a mixed-topic dump — into a well-formed llms.txt family, by segmenting, clustering by topic, and drafting a source-anchored entry per topic. · aka: : notes · not: Change · differs: not change: an optional BOM, an H1, a blockquote, free markdown without headings, then H2 sections holding `- [name](url — https://llms-explorer.com/skills/notes-to-llms-txt/ - **llms.txt** — llms.txt: the spec and its grammars — Spec v2, llms-full grammars, discovery, consumers. · aka: /llms.txt, /llmstxt — https://llms-explorer.com/reference/spec/ - **Rule** — Reasoning: why the rules are what they are — Extractive descriptions, the size ladder, anchors, facts as the trusted layer, and the two-hop bar — each rule traced to the evidence that produced it. · not: /ldo · differs: not a truncation rule: the root keeps one line per section with page and token counts, every section becomes a spec-v2 i — https://llms-explorer.com/reference/reasoning/ - **llms_lint.py** — The lint that gates the estate — llms_lint.py runs the deterministic passes of /ldo and exits 1 on any High; docset_rollout cleanup now runs it across 15 docsets and 652 files at 0 High — and what calibrating it on real docs taught about placeholder keys, PEM headers and quoted injection phrases. — https://llms-explorer.com/blog/the-lint-that-gates-the-estate/ - **Change** — Changelog: spec v1 to v2, and the hub pipeline — What changed in the llms.txt proposal on 2026-08-10, rule by rule, with the effect on an existing file — and the dated changes to the hub schema behind this site. · not: Key, Notes · differs: rather than published. Deleting the account revokes every key with it. — https://llms-explorer.com/reference/changelog/ - **Field** — Glossary — The terms of the field, one line each, in the sense this site uses them — with the contrasts that matter. · not: Means · differs: rather than stored, what every field on a node means, and how the browser at /tree/ filters it. — https://llms-explorer.com/reference/glossary/ - **Grade** — The directory and its grades — What the directory measures, how the A–F grade is derived, and why the mirrored text is never republished. — https://llms-explorer.com/reference/directory/ - **Key** — Sign in — Sign in with a passkey, GitHub or Google; the API sets an HttpOnly session cookie that the account, keys and usage pages send back on every call. — https://llms-explorer.com/login/ - **Source** — /dr — deep-research — Multi-source deep research using firecrawl and exa, synthesizing findings into cited reports with inline attribution, confidence ratings, and explicit knowledge gaps. · not: Link · differs: not do — It does not republish anybody's text. The hub mirrors each file so it can be scored, and that copy stays in the — https://llms-explorer.com/skills/dr/ - **Directory** — The directory and its grades — What the directory measures, how the A–F grade is derived, and why the mirrored text is never republished. · not: Link · differs: not do — It does not republish anybody's text. The hub mirrors each file so it can be scored, and that copy stays in the — https://llms-explorer.com/reference/directory/ - **Claims** — Saturation, measured — Each pass's claims are diffed against the accumulated list from every prior pass. The new-information rate — new atomic claims this pass ÷ total claims after this pass — is recorded per pass, and the run stops after two consecutive passes each score below 5%. — https://llms-explorer.com/skills/rabbithole/ - **llms-vocabulary.txt** — The vocabulary file — llms-vocabulary.txt is the lexical layer of a family: the words a field uses, what each means here, how it differs from its neighbours, and what people say instead. The line grammar, the sense model, where it feeds, and how to build one. · not: Grammar · differs: differs from its neighbours, and what people say instead. The line grammar, the sense model, where it feeds, and how to — https://llms-explorer.com/essays/vocabulary/ - **Passes** — The passes — What the optimizer runs, in order, and how each pass is judged and fixed. — https://llms-explorer.com/reference/passes/ ## Named, not yet defined Terms the pool names (≥ 2 uses) without a sourced sentence that defines them — research gaps. - LLMS-Explorer - Applies - Bar - Miss - --check-links - split_llms_full - verified-as-of · aka: verified-as-of: - Link: rel=describedby · aka: Link: rel="describedby" - text/plain - rel="alternate" type="text/markdown" · aka: rel=alternate type=text/markdown - X-Markdown-Tokens - Effect on an existing file - /.well-known/ -
/llms.txt - page.html.md - page.md - index.html.md - index.md - llms_txt2ctx - V1 (to 2026-08-29) - V2 (from 2026-08-30) - Accept: text/markdown - distill_offline.py bulk - export_llms - web-text-mirror --serve - llms_serve.py - docset_rollout cleanup - /ldo - .pages/ - _master.md - ._distill_index.json - Date - PART_PAGES = 60 - --register - section_order - Means - Sample - Study - Window / sample - Claude-Code - Author / date - Page block - Source: - /llms.txt - part-N - Bundle - Kind - Runs as - --agent-test - url#anchor - Shape - llms-full.txt - manifest.json - llms-facts.txt - Link - Group - Content - Finding - Size - Page - Grammar - Who - llms-small.txt