---
title: "LLM Best Practices"
slug: "index"
category: "meta"
tags: ["moc", "best-practices", "ai-agents"]
status: "stable"
last_updated: 2026-08-29
summary: "Opinionated reference vault of best practices for dev, writing, and AI agent work. Atomic pages, YAML-fronted, citable."
---

> Opinionated reference site of best practices for dev, writing, and AI agent work. Pages are atomic, YAML-fronted, and stable enough to cite in agent prompts.

> [!info] For AI Agents
> Start at [[meta/for-ai-agents]]. The machine-readable index lives at [/llms.txt](https://llmbestpractices.com/llms.txt). This domain anchors the [[seo/llm-discoverability-standard|LLM discoverability standard]] that conforming sites cite as `standard_followed`.

## Categories

- [[meta/index|Meta]]: How this site works, schema, citation, and changelog.
- [[writing/index|Writing]]: Voice, anti-slop rules, articles, editorial style.
- [[coding/index|Coding]]: Language-agnostic principles and per-language guides.
- [[comparisons/index|Comparisons]]: Head-to-head pages for the choices teams actually make: database, framework, language, API style.
- [[file-organization/index|File Organization]]: Project layout, naming, folder hierarchy, monorepo, dotfiles, large codebases, config files.
- [[frontend/index|Frontend]]: HTML, CSS, Tailwind, Astro, React, Next.js, shadcn, Blueprint.
- [[glossary/index|Glossary]]: Atomic one-concept-per-page definitions for the terms that show up across web, dev, and AI agent work.
- [[backend/index|Backend]]: Postgres, Prisma, FastAPI, SQLite, ChromaDB.
- [[cheatsheets/index|Cheatsheets]]: Git commands, bash one-liners, EXPLAIN nodes, CSS selectors, HTTP codes, regex, Markdown variants, schema.org types.
- [[seo/index|SEO]]: Technical and content SEO, structured data, llms.txt, ai.txt, IndexNow.
- [[ai-agents/index|AI Agents]]: Claude Code, prompt design, multi-agent, RAG, MCP, embeddings, Ollama.
- [[knowledge-vaults/index|Knowledge Vaults]]: Vault architecture, atomic notes, frontmatter schemas, decision journals, audits, and the agent orchestration loop.
- [[prompt-engineering/index|Prompt Engineering]]: Best practices, templates, evals, injection defense, chains, output constraints, caching, reasoning models.
- [[howto/index|How To]]: Step-by-step tutorials for deploys, Claude Code, JSON-LD, Core Web Vitals, llms.txt, Postgres debugging.
- [[ios/index|iOS]]: SwiftUI, MapKit, Core Data.
- [[ops/index|Ops]]: GitHub Pages, Vercel, Hostinger VPS, Cloudflare, Namecheap DNS.
- [[security/index|Security]]: Cross-cutting hub for application security: access control, secrets, injection defense, integration security, headers, and pre-launch hardening.
- [[tooling/index|Tooling]]: GitHub, Obsidian, Quartz, Claude Code workflow.

## How to use this site

- Humans: browse by category MOC, or use search and graph view.
- Agents: fetch [/llms.txt](https://llmbestpractices.com/llms.txt) for the page index, then fetch any page as raw markdown from the GitHub repo. See [[meta/for-ai-agents]].