Manifest-Assisted Retrieval in Artificial Intelligence Search: Evidence Gaps and a Security Evaluation
arXiv:2610.38361v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The external sources retained in our non-systematic audit did not isolate the incremental security or utility effect of consuming /llms.txt while ordinary retrieval remained fixed. The initial audit covered 39 sources through August 16, 2026, with later targeted updates through October 14. A purposive 15-tool study observed no automatic requests in 45 trials at one endpoint; a non-probability log study found that 97% of domains with detected fil…