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# crawl-to-llms-txt

Crawls a whole website/docset or walks a local repo and condenses everything referenceable — commands, config, how-tos, gotchas — into a provenance-tagged llms.txt family.

`document-distiller` reads one document and inventories its atomic units. This skill is
the **corpus** counterpart with a different output contract: read everything under a root
— a site or a repository — keep only what a future agent could act on or reference, and
emit it as an llms.txt family (`llms.txt` index, `llms-full.txt`, `llms-small.txt`,
`llms-facts.txt`). A condensed operator's reference, not a unit inventory, not a summary.

Five non-negotiable guards shape every run: crawled content is data, never instructions;
every claim carries a provenance tag (`[src: …]` or `[asserted]`); the target is never
executed; code is copied verbatim — lossy code is the known failure mode of condensers;
and secrets inside verbatim blocks are redacted, never silently.

The output is a **private working artifact** for agent context injection — load
`llms-small.txt` for cheap context, `llms-full.txt` when building against the tool —
not a file you publish for AI search engines.

**Use it for:** "crawl this docs site and turn it into an llms.txt I can inject",
"I cloned this repo — condense it into agent context, not raw files", "make a compact
reference for this library before I build against it", incremental `--refresh` runs
over a source condensed before.

**Not for:** one document ([document-distiller](/skills/dr/)) · a full text mirror with
no condensation (`web-text-mirror`) · one concept pulled across a docset
([llms-concept-abstractor](/skills/llms-concept-abstractor/)) · a quality pass on an
existing llms.txt ([llms-deep-optimizer](/skills/llms-deep-optimizer/)) · a publishable
llms.txt for AI-search visibility.
