Forget social sharing buttons: Hacks/Hackers rebuilt its site for crawlers and agents. “Ask AI” buttons, an MCP server, and an llms.txt file. (Burt Herman, Hacks/Hackers)
- Hacks/Hackers rebuilt its site with "Ask AI" buttons, an MCP server, and an llms.txt file so AI agents can query its archives directly rather than scraping broken HTML.
- The piece is a practical walkthrough: buttons hand users off to ChatGPT or Claude with pre-filled prompts, while the MCP server exposes ten tools for structured content access with full-text responses.
- The most telling detail from their logs is that agents are already quietly crawling sites just to catalog what MCP tools are exposed, before anyone asks them to do anything.
