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Mintlify now supports WebMCP
Mintlify documentation sites now expose typed WebMCP tools that browser agents can use to search, read, and navigate documentation directly.
Mintlify BlogSep 21, 20263 min read
Scaling llms.txt
Large documentation sites were hitting Mintlify's 100,000-character llms.txt limit and omitting pages. We rebuilt generation as a hierarchy of files so agents can reach every page without loading the entire index.
Mintlify BlogSep 1, 20264 min read
Docs URL Benchmark: Markdown & llms.txt > HTML
We benchmarked four ways to serve documentation to AI agents (HTML, plain markdown, markdown linking to llms.txt, and markdown with llms.txt inlined) across 2,400 runs on 20 Mintlify docs sites, and found that a single link to llms.txt eliminates most agent 404s at no added cost.
Mintlify BlogJul 17, 20265 min read
How we built a virtual filesystem for our Assistant
We replaced expensive sandboxes with ChromaFs, a virtual filesystem over Chroma, to give our docs AI assistant the ability to explore documentation like a developer would.
Mintlify BlogMar 24, 20265 min read