Setting up the file correctly
Which pages belong in the file
The file is a curated reading list, not a copy of the sitemap. Choose the 10-20 pages a reader should see first; product documentation, API reference, installation and core concept pages belong at the top. Adding the whole blog archive or every category page makes the file longer and less selective. Give each link a short note that says what the page actually covers.
Short paths and section names
When a site address is present, short paths such as /services are expanded to full addresses; without a site address the tool rejects a short path. Pages that share a section name are collected under one H2. If you put secondary sources under Optional, the tool moves that group to the end. Leaving the section name empty puts the page in the default group.
The difference between preview and live file
The preview validates the text format only. After uploading the file to the root as UTF-8, separately check that https://yoursite.com/llms.txt returns HTTP 200 and that every link resolves. A CDN or hosting rule can serve the file as HTML; the response content type should be text. This is the one step the tool cannot do for you.