What is a "skill" — and how the agent publishes your site

In Zero to a live website, the last step said: "ask the agent to add a favicon, robots.txt, llms.txt and sitemap." One instruction — done. It works because there's a skill behind it. Once that clicks, it speeds up everything.

A skill = a remembered procedure

A skill is a small recipe the agent remembers. Instead of improvising each time (and re-making the same mistakes), it reaches for the proven steps and runs them the same, well, every time. You say what you want; the skill knows how.

Example: "launch a website"

Ask "give this site its basic launch" and the web-launch skill produces the things that make a site feel grown-up and discoverable by people and AI:

• favicon — the little browser-tab icon (a missing one is that ugly empty box).
• robots.txt — tells search engines (and AI crawlers) what they may read.
• llms.txt — newer: briefly tells AI models what your site is about, so they cite you correctly.
• sitemap.xml — a map of your pages for search engines.
• Open Graph preview — the nice card shown when you share the link.
• canonical + hreflang — tidy URLs and languages.

How you run it — copy this to the agent:

Run a basic "web launch" on www-<slug>: favicon, robots.txt, llms.txt,
sitemap.xml and an Open Graph preview. Follow our proven skill.Copy

That's it — the agent runs the recipe, you check the result.

Why it matters

• Nothing gets forgotten — the steps are always complete.
• Consistency — your tenth site looks as grown-up as your first.
• AI-friendly — llms.txt is literally a note to the robots: "cite me like this." That's our whole motto.

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