# Can an AI agent reach the API docs from a product's home page? 101 of 119 products (85%) link their docs in the home page's HTML, one link from home for an AI agent. At 8 of 119, an agent that follows links finds no way to the docs: no link on the home page and no llms.txt that lists them. Drives: 1 Oct 2026 to 1 Nov 2026 · 119 home pages · Step: [Find](https://agentdrives.com/access/find.md) · Subject: Docs · Counted 1 Nov 2026. Source: https://agentdrives.com/findings/docs-from-home?via=md · CC BY 4.0 ## What we found | From the home page to the docs | Products | |---|---| | In the home page's HTML | 101 of 119 (85%) | | Only in llms.txt | 10 of 119 (8%) | | Neither | 8 of 119 (7%) | | What the docs give an agent | Products | |---|---| | llms.txt lists the docs | 93 of 119 (78%) | | An API reference page | 100 of 119 (84%) | | API reference in llms.txt | 80 of 119 (67%) | | No docs page found | fewer than 5 | ## For product owners - Put a plain docs link in the home page's HTML, not only in a menu a script builds. - Publish an llms.txt that lists your docs pages and your API reference. - Serve the docs at docs.yourdomain.com or yourdomain.com/docs too. ## For agent builders - Read the home page's links first, then llms.txt, then try docs., developers. and /docs. - Don't stop at a home page with no docs link: 10 of 119 products list their docs only in llms.txt. - Use llms.txt to go straight to the API reference: 80 of 119 products list it there. ## How we tested - On 12–13 Oct 2026 we read the home pages of the 119 products we drove, without a browser, and looked for a link to docs, developers or an API reference that opened a page. - Each product's newest drive (1 Oct 2026 to 1 Nov 2026) read its docs: the pages the home page links, docs., developers., /docs, llms.txt and the sitemaps. - A page counts as the API reference when its title, headings or address name it. ## Limits - A docs link that a script adds after the page loads isn't in the HTML, so it counts as no link. - Each home page as it was on the day we read it; each product's docs on the day of its newest drive. ## Sources - [Every number on this page, with its definition](https://agentdrives.com/data/facts.md?via=md#reach.measured) - [Agent access: Find](https://agentdrives.com/access/find.md) - [Does your llms.txt help an AI agent?](https://agentdrives.com/research/llms-txt.md?via=md) - [How we drive](https://agentdrives.com/method.md?via=md)