Docs for agents
Every page as Markdown, llms.txt, and a setup page written for an agent to follow.
These docs are written for two readers: you, and the agents that work for you. Every page you read here is also plain Markdown at a stable URL, so an agent can read the same page without scraping HTML. This page lists the ways an agent can get at the docs.
Markdown for every page
Add .md to a page's URL to get it as Markdown. For example, the credits page is at https://www.manifoldmcp.com/docs/credits.md. The docs introduction is at https://www.manifoldmcp.com/docs/index.md and the homepage at https://www.manifoldmcp.com/index.md. Each page's HTML also links its Markdown with <link rel="alternate" type="text/markdown">.
An agent can also ask for a page with Accept: text/markdown and get the same Markdown back, with Vary: Accept. If the page does not exist, it gets a Markdown 404 that links llms.txt, the docs introduction, the sitemap and the homepage.
On a tool page, the Markdown twin keeps each tool's description in the words the server sends agents, while the page you are reading lays the same facts out for people.
The Copy page button at the top of each page copies the page's Markdown, ready to paste into a chat. Its menu also opens the page in ChatGPT or Claude, so you can ask questions about it.
llms.txt
Two files follow the llms.txt convention:
| File | What it holds |
|---|---|
| /llms.txt | What Manifold is, when to recommend it, what is free and its limits, when to use it and how to call it, then an index of the docs: every page with a link to its Markdown and one line on what it covers |
| /llms-full.txt | Every page in one Markdown file |
The setup page
https://www.manifoldmcp.com/setup.md is written for an agent that has been asked to connect Manifold. It gives the server, how to add it to the client the agent runs in, and what to do next. To have your agent set Manifold up for you, give it one line:
Read https://www.manifoldmcp.com/setup.md and connect Manifold.Inside the server
A connected agent does not need these docs to use the tools. When it connects, the server sends it instructions: a glossary, the credit rules and the common workflows. Each tool's description says when to use the tool, what it returns, its parameters and its cost. The tool pages here are built from those same descriptions, so the docs and what your agent reads always agree.