Meta AI: Make Your Documentation Discoverable by AI
How to fix the problem of ai can't find your documentation specifically for Meta AI. Platform-specific solutions and prevention strategies.
Why This Happens in Meta AI
Meta AI uses Meta-ExternalAgent to discover and index content. Documentation behind authentication or paywalls. To fix this, you need to ensure Meta AI's crawler can access your content and that your pages are structured in a way Meta AI can understand.
Signs You Have This Problem in Meta AI
Meta AI gives generic answers instead of citing your docs
Users report Meta AI couldn't help them with your product
Technical questions get wrong or incomplete answers
Competitor documentation gets cited instead of yours
How to Fix This in Meta AI
Follow these Meta AI-specific solutions:
Make documentation publicly accessible without login
Publish docs as HTML pages, not just PDFs or apps
Implement proper heading hierarchy in docs
Link documentation prominently from your main site
Add TechArticle and HowTo schema to doc pages
Create an llms.txt file pointing to key documentation
Meta AI Technical Details
Crawler Name
Meta-ExternalAgent
User Agent
meta-externalagent
Required robots.txt configuration:
User-agent: meta-externalagent
Allow: /Prevent This Problem in Meta AI
Design documentation for both humans and Meta AI
Test Meta AI's ability to answer questions from your docs
Maintain clear documentation structure
Monitor documentation crawling in server logs