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Lauren Hirata SinghandGitHub 230927fb3a docs: publish the generated llms.txt instead of a hand-written copy (#8922)
## Why

`docs/llms.txt` is written by hand and was last touched in February, so
the index served at <https://langchain-ai.github.io/langgraph/llms.txt>
had drifted badly:

- 12 pages listed, against the 43 the docs site publishes.
- One entry, `/oss/python/langgraph/why-langgraph`, now 404s.

The deploy workflow only fires on `docs/**` pushes, so nothing brought
the file back in line as the docs site changed. It is served verbatim:
`generate_redirects.py` copies it into `docs/_site` via a `static_files`
list, and `deploy-redirects.yml` uploads that directory to Pages.

The docs site already generates exactly this index, and regenerates it
on every deploy:

```
https://docs.langchain.com/oss/python/langgraph/llms.txt
```

## What changed

`generate_redirects.py` now fetches that index at build time and writes
it into `_site`, so the published file cannot drift from the docs site.
The committed `docs/llms.txt` stays as a fallback only, refreshed here
to current content.

`deploy-redirects.yml` gains a weekly `schedule:` trigger, so docs
changes that never touch this repo still reach the deployed file. The
`permissions:` block is unchanged.

## Fetching remote content in CI

The fetched body is published on a public Pages site, so it is validated
before it is written:

- The URL is a hardcoded module constant, never built from input.
- Both that URL and the post-redirect `response.url` are checked against
an HTTPS-plus-single-host allowlist. `urlopen` follows redirects, so
checking only the request URL would not be enough.
- 30 second timeout, response capped at 1MB, decoded as UTF-8.
- The body must open with a markdown heading and contain a
docs.langchain.com link, which rejects an error page or a truncated
response.

Any failure returns `None` and falls back to the committed copy, so a
docs.langchain.com outage degrades to a stale file rather than a broken
deploy or a published error page.

## Verification

Ran `python docs/generate_redirects.py`: 294 redirect files, `llms.txt`
fetched, 43 entries.

Each rejection path was exercised against a stubbed `urlopen` and all
fall back to the committed file:

| Case | Result |
|---|---|
| Network error | falls back |
| Timeout | falls back |
| Redirect to another host | falls back |
| Body over 1MB | falls back |
| Invalid UTF-8 | falls back |
| HTML error page | falls back |
| Empty body | falls back |
| Valid index | published |

Allowlist rejects `http://docs.langchain.com/...`,
`https://evil.com/...`, and `https://docs.langchain.com.evil.com/...`.

## Note on ordering

The fallback committed here is labelled "LangGraph (Python)", which is
what the docs site will serve once langchain-ai/docs#6032 deploys. Until
then the fetched file reads "Open source (Python)". No action needed; it
self-corrects.

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Written with Claude Code; I reviewed the diff and ran the verification
above.
2026-09-14 15:45:19 -04:00
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