Introduction

Traditional websites are built for browsers. next-ai-ready makes your Next.js site readable by AI and callable by agents.

The problem

Search is changing. Users increasingly get answers from AI — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews. If your content isn't structured for AI consumption, you're invisible to this new traffic.

At the same time, AI agents are emerging. They need to call your features — not just read your pages. But there's no standard way to expose Next.js functionality to agents.

The solution

next-ai-ready is the AEO + Agent-API layer for Next.js. One config file, zero changes to your UI:

• Knowledge Plane — your content becomes AI-readable via llms.txt, per-page Markdown, JSON-LD
• Capability Plane — your features become AI-callable via OpenAPI, MCP, tools.json

How it works

pnpm add next-ai-ready
npx next-ai-ready init
npx next-ai-ready build

The init command scaffolds route handlers and a config file. The build command scans your MDX content and compiles everything into the artifacts AI consumers need.

Your existing UI is untouched. The framework adds new routes that serve AI-optimized representations of your content and capabilities.

What you get