Agentimus – AI SEO, llms.txt & MCP for AI Agents

FAQ

Where is the documentation?

The full documentation — a plain-English user manual and a developer reference — is at https://heera.github.io/agentimus/. It has step-by-step guides for every feature, plus the hooks, filters and endpoints for developers.

Do I need to be technical to use this?

No. A setup wizard opens automatically the first time you visit the admin and walks you through everything in about a minute — you write a sentence about who you are and tick what AI assistants may read. Everything else runs on its own, and you can change any of it later.

What does Agentimus change on my site? Will my visitors notice?

Nothing your visitors see changes — there’s no new front-end script, style or layout. Behind the scenes it publishes machine-readable files and signals (like llms.txt and a discovery document) that only AI assistants and crawlers read. It also stands down automatically next to SEO plugins, so it won’t duplicate or fight your existing setup.

What’s the quickest way to set this up for my site?

Activate Agentimus and run the one-minute setup wizard — that covers most sites. Then, depending on what you do:

• Consultant, freelancer or personal brand: fill in your Identity — your name, a one-sentence bio, your expertise topics, and links to your other profiles. That’s the highest-signal information an AI assistant uses to describe and cite you correctly.
• Business or agency: set the entity type to Organization, list the services you offer, and add a contact email so an agent can point enquiries the right way.
• Blog or publisher: the defaults are already right — your posts and pages flow into llms.txt automatically. Just add a profile sentence so an assistant knows whose site it is.

Whatever your case, the Readiness report always tells you the single next thing worth improving.

Does Agentimus make external requests or send my data anywhere?

By default, no — Agentimus makes no outbound HTTP requests out of the box, sends nothing to any external service, collects no analytics or telemetry, and stores the agent-activity log in your own database with no IP addresses. (One opt-in setting, Store IP addresses for flagged clients, can store IPs locally for flagged crawlers only — off by default; see External services.) Two opt-in features go outbound. Verify bot identities makes DNS lookups and downloads, once a day, the crawler-IP lists that bot operators publish (Google, OpenAI, Perplexity, …) so impostors can be caught; when a request arrives carrying a Web Bot Auth signature, it also fetches that operator’s public key file so the signature can be checked on your own server. Only those public files are fetched, and nothing about your site is sent. The other is the optional AI Visibility feature: if you enable it and add your own API key, Agentimus queries the AI provider(s) you chose (OpenAI, Perplexity, Gemini and/or Anthropic) to check whether they mention and cite you — only for the engines you turn on, and only when a check runs (on demand or on your schedule). Your keys stay on your server and nothing else is sent anywhere. See External services for the full disclosure. The discovery document includes a $schema value that identifies the document format (the same way a schema.org URL identifies a vocabulary); it is a label in the output, never fetched. The one place a request is made is the optional “Verify live” self-check on the readiness report — and that runs in your browser, fetching your own public URLs only when you click it; the server itself still makes no request.

Do I need an SEO plugin alongside Agentimus?

No. With no SEO plugin installed, Agentimus covers the search essentials itself: per-page SEO titles (an “SEO title” field in the editor), Open Graph/X share cards, canonical links, meta descriptions, and an XML sitemap with last-changed dates. Each has its own switch under Settings → Discovery → Search basics. If you install an SEO plugin later, Agentimus notices on the next page load and steps aside on everything the plugin owns — your per-page values are kept, and everything returns if that plugin leaves.

Does this conflict with my SEO plugin?

No. When Yoast, Rank Math, SEOPress, AIOSEO or The SEO Framework is active, Agentimus stands down on every overlapping surface — JSON-LD, SEO titles, share cards, canonicals, meta descriptions and the sitemap — automatically, so nothing is ever emitted twice. A card on the dashboard names the division of labour. The AI-facing endpoints (llms.txt, markdown twins, the discovery documents) don’t overlap with SEO plugins and keep working the same either way.

My robots.txt rules aren’t showing.

If a static robots.txt file exists at your site root, or your CDN serves its own, it overrides WordPress’s virtual robots.txt. The readiness report flags this. Remove the static file to let Agentimus manage the rules.

An SEO audit tool says my robots.txt is invalid.

Some audit tools flag the Content-Signal: line Agentimus adds. The line is valid: the robots.txt standard (RFC 9309) tells parsers to ignore any field they don’t recognise, so every crawler still reads the rest of your file exactly as written. The tool is behind the standard, not your site. Nothing to fix.

I turned something on but nothing seems to happen — is it broken?

Almost always it’s working — here’s how to confirm. The generated AI files are cached for up to an hour, so a change may not show instantly: open the file directly (for example yoursite.com/llms.txt) and refresh. The Readiness report’s Verify live button fetches your real URLs from your browser and shows exactly what an agent receives — including anything your CDN is caching. If a file still isn’t appearing, check that a static file or your CDN isn’t overriding it (the report flags a static robots.txt, for instance).

How do I tell AI not to train on my content?

Set Allow AI training to off under Settings → Crawler policy. That one switch publishes your choice in three places at once, so a crawler that ignores one still sees the others:

1. robots.txt — a Content-Signal: … ai-train=no line (advisory).
2. A response header on your pages — tdm-reservation: 1 (the W3C TDM Reservation Protocol), which reaches bots that never read robots.txt.
3. An opt-out file at /.well-known/tdmrep.json — the recognized, machine-readable reservation, relevant under EU text-and-data-mining rules.

The header and file are on by default and can be toggled per channel under “Published beyond robots.txt”. You can optionally also send the non-standard X-Robots-Tag: noai, noimageai (off by default, honored by some platforms) and link an AI-usage policy URL.

Important — these are signals, not a wall. robots.txt, the header and tdmrep.json are standardized requests that compliant crawlers honor; they do not forcibly stop a bot. To actually refuse a crawler with a 403, add it to the crawler list or use scanner blocking (Crawler policy → Block specific crawlers / Block scanners), which Agentimus enforces at its generated endpoints.

Can I block only specific AI bots?

Yes — list them under Block specific crawlers. That writes a per-name Disallow: / to robots.txt for each. The /.well-known/tdmrep.json opt-out file and the tdm-reservation header are site-wide — the standard has no per-bot dial — so per-bot blocking lives in robots.txt (and in scanner blocking for a hard 403), while the file and header carry your overall site-wide choice. (Those site-wide signals are published only when you block AI training; an open site publishes none.)

Which AI agents are allowed by default?

Out of the box Agentimus blocks nothing — it’s a discovery layer, so every agent is served until you turn on the optional scanner blocking. Even then, an always-allowed list keeps trusted clients flowing: the major search engines (Googlebot, Bingbot, DuckDuckBot, Applebot, Yandex) are recognised automatically and never blocked or flagged, and the AI access tab shows them read-only so you know exactly what’s trusted. You can add well-known AI assistants and answer engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, …) with one click, or mark any client Allow from the activity review queue. Training crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, …) are deliberately not on the trust list — those belong to your separate AI-training choice, so trusting them here wouldn’t quietly undo an opt-out you may have set.

Can I see if AI is sending me visitors?

Yes — the dashboard’s “Traffic from AI” card counts real people who landed on your site from an AI assistant (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, …), detected from the visit’s referrer and the utm_source tag some AI tools add to their links. It’s the mirror of the activity log: that shows bots reading your content; this shows AI bringing you readers, with a by-source and top-landing-pages breakdown. Like the rest of the log it’s first-party and aggregate-only — no IP, no per-visitor records, nothing sent anywhere. Some AI visits can’t be detected (stripped referrers, Google’s AI Overviews, cached pages), so read the figure as a floor: at least this many.

Will Agentimus get my site mentioned by ChatGPT or improve my AI rankings?

Honestly: it helps with one half of that, not the other. Agentimus makes your site discoverable and correctly understood — when an AI assistant looks at your site, it can find your content, read a clean version, and describe you accurately. That is what the plugin controls, and it does it well. But whether an AI spontaneously mentions you when someone asks a broad question (“best resources for X”) is a matter of authority and reputation — earned over time through genuinely notable content that others reference. No plugin, llms.txt, or schema can manufacture that, and any tool promising “instant AI visibility” is overselling. Agentimus makes sure that when authority does bring an agent to your door, nothing is lost in translation.

Will it slow my site down?

No. The text endpoints are cached and CDN-friendly; there is no front-end JavaScript or CSS for your visitors (the optional, off-by-default WebMCP bridge adds a tiny script only when you enable it, and it stays inert in browsers without the API). The admin app loads only on the plugin’s own screen.

Does it expose anything private, or let agents change my site?

No. Agentimus only describes what your site already makes public; it grants no new access. Removing or suppressing an item changes what is advertised, not what is reachable — the underlying endpoints behave exactly as before, behind their own authentication.

Does Agentimus run an MCP server?

Yes — as an opt-in, on WordPress 6.9 or newer. Turn on Settings → Discovery → MCP server and the AI assistants you already use can talk to your site over the Model Context Protocol and run the same permission-checked tools your admin AI gets — ten read-only ones (readiness, AI traffic, bot identification, per-page readability, internal-link suggestions and previews), plus the write tools if you separately allow those (see the next question). Connecting is usually one approval: give the assistant your server address and it asks you for permission on a page served by your own site, where you choose read-only or read-and-write. Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor work this way today (ChatGPT behind its Developer-mode switch); Codex cannot ask, so it takes a shared token you create on the card and send as a Bearer header. A WordPress application password still works too, for one key per tool tied to a specific user. Nothing becomes public — every request signs in, each tool keeps the same permission checks as the admin screens, and every call is recorded under More → Agent Access. Off by default, and everything needed ships with the plugin.

Can an AI agent write to my site?

Only if you say so, twice. The MCP server starts read-only; a second switch — Let connected agents write — adds the write tools: draft and edit posts and pages complete with categories, tags and a featured image (from your media library, or imported from a URL), set their AI topics and descriptions, and apply Readiness fixes (a fixed list of safe switches that can only turn documented features on, never loosen a protection). Even then, agents can’t publish: they leave drafts and pending posts for your review, unless you flip a third switch that allows going live. Writes are held to the site’s own quality bar too: the write tools show agents the same readability rules the in-admin assistant drafts to, and every create or update returns the post’s AI-readability grade. Every write runs as the signed-in user — an agent can never do more than that user could in the editor: filing under existing categories, creating new ones, and uploading images each follow that user’s own permissions — and every call is recorded under More → Agent Access, attributed to the key that made it.

Can AI help me write the description, topics and fixes?

Yes, if you’re on WordPress 7.0 and have set up an AI provider under Settings → AI. Then Draft with AI appears on the AI description field, Suggest with AI on the Topics field, and Fix with AI on any AI Readability row that needs work. Agentimus asks your AI through WordPress’s shared connectors — it never sees or stores your API key, and nothing is sent anywhere if you haven’t set a provider up (the buttons simply don’t appear). Every suggestion arrives as ordinary editable text in the field: you read it, change it, and save the post yourself. Nothing is written for you.

Can AI write a whole post for me?

Yes — the writing assistant (the quill button on Agentimus’s own screens) turns a described idea into a complete draft. It proposes an outline you can edit first, then writes the title, body, AI description and topics with suggested categories and tags, and shows you everything before a single thing is saved. Create draft opens the post in the editor, where image placeholders arrive with their alt text ready — fill them from your library, or generate them with AI. It can also revise an existing post you pick, without ever changing its status. It needs the Let connected agents write switch on and an AI provider under Settings → AI, and it never publishes: drafts and pending review only.

Does AI Visibility use the AI provider I set up in WordPress?

No — it needs its own API keys, and that’s on purpose. A visibility check is graded on the sources each engine cited, and WordPress’s shared connectors hand back only the answer text; the list of cited sources is dropped before Agentimus could read it. Reading those sources means talking to each engine’s own API, so AI Visibility keeps its own keys (Settings → AI Visibility). They stay on your server and are used for nothing else.

How do I make my plugin appear in the discovery document?

Add a single optional action — no dependency, no library. If Agentimus isn’t installed the hook simply never fires:

add_action( 'wpdiscovery_register', function ( $registry ) {
    $registry->register( array( 'id' => 'acme', 'title' => 'Acme', 'type' => 'commerce' ) );
} );

Agentimus also fires the product-aliased agentimus_register; you may hook either. See examples/integrate-your-plugin.php for the full resource schema (capabilities, endpoints, auth, agent cards, MCP tools).

Which hooks can my plugin use?

Registration is a single action, but Agentimus exposes more for deeper integrations, grouped by stability:

• Stable — frozen at WP_Discovery spec 1.0; build on these: the wpdiscovery_register action with its $registry->register() / add_well_known() API, plus agentimus_entity_types and the agentimus_cache_flushed action.
• Extension — supported output-shaping filters (signatures may evolve between releases): tune the discovery document, MCP/agent surfaces, llms.txt, schema.org, sitemap, REST discovery and security.txt — e.g. agentimus_envelope, agentimus_documents, agentimus_mcp, agentimus_agent_skills, agentimus_well_known_routed, agentimus_post_types, agentimus_security_txt.
• Internal — advanced site-owner tuning (Guard, Classifier, Activity, Settings); not a third-party integration surface.

Every hook, with its signature and tier, is catalogued in examples/all-hooks-reference.php.

Is the discovery format an open standard I can read?

Yes. The discovery document implements the WP_Discovery Protocol, an openly-licensed (CC BY 4.0) specification — not a format private to this plugin. Read the spec, the 1.0 JSON Schema and worked examples at https://heera.github.io/wp-discovery-protocol/ (source and conformance tests: https://github.com/heera/wp-discovery-protocol). Agentimus is its reference implementation.

Does Agentimus store IP addresses?

Not by default. The agent-activity log records who fetched your endpoints with no IP addresses at all. One opt-in setting — Store IP addresses for flagged clients — records the IP only of clients flagged as impersonating or spoofed crawlers (never ordinary traffic), so you can block them at your host or CDN. When on, those IPs are personal data: stored on your own site only, kept for a short retention period, cleared when you clear the activity log, and deleted if you turn the setting back off. Nothing is ever sent off your server. If you enable it, disclose it in your privacy policy (Agentimus adds suggested text at Settings → Privacy).

Is the admin interface built from source I can inspect?

Yes — there is no minified-only code. The admin interface is built from Vue 3 source in resources/ with Vite; the source and vite.config.js ship in this package and also live in the public repository at https://github.com/heera/agentimus . Run npm install && npm run build to regenerate assets/admin/ from source.