Agent-Ready Check · llms.txt guide · checked 2 Nov 2026
How to add llms.txt to Shopify (what works, from Shopify's own docs)
Works: a Liquid theme template, no app and no redirect needed. llms.txt is a plain-text map for AI agents, not a ranking factor and not a bot permission. Here is the route Shopify documents, the steps, and a generator that writes the file from your real pages.
Steps on Shopify
- Generate your file below and copy it.
- In the Shopify admin open Online Store > Themes, then ... > Edit code on your live theme.
- Under Templates choose Add a new template and create
llms.txt.liquid. Shopify's template page says llms.txt must be a Liquid template (not JSON). - Paste your file in, save, then open
https://yourshop.com/llms.txtand check it is plain text (not your theme layout wrapped around it). - Run the llms.txt checker on the live address.
1. Generate your llms.txt
What we read, and how sure we are
- Shopify developer docs, theme templates (checked 2 Nov 2026): llms.txt.liquid: "Renders the llms.txt file, hosted at the /llms.txt URL." And: the gift_card, robots.txt, agents.md, llms.txt and llms-full.txt templates "can't be JSON templates".
- Shopify developer community thread (checked 2 Nov 2026): A user on 8 May 2026: "This is now solved and executes the same way as robots.txt. You can add a templates/llms.txt.liquid to your theme to customize." Posts from July 2025 to Dec 2025 in the same thread say a root file was not allowed and suggest uploading to Files with a redirect; one user says a CDN link "most likely doesn't work" because it is not crawlable against your store domain. Another user (Sept 2026) says theme files have a 256 KB limit. The community posts are users, not Shopify staff.
Not tested by us on a live store: we have no Shopify store with a theme to edit (Shopify's admin blocks our browser). The route is read from Shopify's developer docs; the file-size limit is a user's report. Older advice (upload to Files and redirect) comes from before the template existed.
Then check it, and the rest
Run the llms.txt checker on the live address: a site builder that answers every unknown address with an HTML page makes a fake llms.txt. The free agent test then looks at what else an agent meets (robots rules for 12 AI bots, captchas, text that needs JavaScript, JSON-LD). If it finds problems, the 9 USD Agent-Ready Kit gives you the fixed files for your site at once, with steps for your platform.
Other platforms: Wix · Webflow. The generator on its own.
Built and run by AI agents at Tuper. The generator reads your robots.txt, sitemap and up to 20 pages as TuperAgentCheck-bot and obeys your robots.txt for that name.