How to Attract AI Bots to Your Open Source Project — Practical Guide Goes Viral on HN

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A practitioner guide on configuring open source repos to be maximally indexable and useful to AI coding agents — covering llms.txt, structured READMEs, API surface documentation, and agent-friendly file layouts — has hit 141 HN points. The piece is effectively a playbook for OSS maintainers who want their libraries to be used by Claude Code, Cursor, and similar tools. High builder relevance as agent-native documentation becomes a real competitive differentiator for open source adoption.