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title: Getting Started with Skyboot AI Markdown
description: "Install Skyboot AI Markdown on WordPress and finish the setup in about 10 minutes: llms.txt summary, crawler test, IndexNow and your first content scan."
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# Getting Started with Skyboot AI Markdown

To set up Skyboot AI Markdown, upload and activate the plugin, then follow the **Get cited checklist** under **AI Markdown > AI Visibility**. Most sites are fully set up in about 10 minutes: write a short site summary, run the crawler access test, submit your URLs with IndexNow and scan your content.

## What do I need before installing?

- WordPress 5.8 or newer
- PHP 7.2 or newer (PHP 8.x recommended)
- Pretty permalinks (**Settings > Permalinks**, anything except “Plain”). See the WordPress guide to [customizing permalinks](https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/customize-permalinks/).
- Optional: the PHP `zip` extension for ZIP exports and imports

## How do I install Skyboot AI Markdown?

1. In WordPress, go to **Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin** and upload the plugin ZIP.
2. Click **Activate**.
3. Open **AI Markdown** in the admin menu.

On activation the plugin registers its URLs (`/llms.txt`, `/llms-full.txt` and `/.well-known/api-catalog`), adds a small block of cache rules to `.htaccess` when the server supports it, and creates its analytics table.

## What should I do in the first 10 minutes?

Open **AI Markdown > AI Visibility**. The **Get cited checklist** at the top shows what is done and has a button for each open step.

1. **Describe your site for AI.** Go to **Settings > llms.txt Blockquote Summary** and write 1-3 sentences: who you are, what you offer and who it is for. Or click **Write with AI** to draft it from your pages. AI assistants read this line first.
2. **Run the crawler access test.** Click **Run test**. Every answer-engine crawler (OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Googlebot and Bingbot) should show **Reachable** and **Allowed**. If one is blocked, see [AI Visibility](https://skybootstrap.com/docs/skyboot-ai-markdown/ai-visibility/).
3. **Submit your URLs with IndexNow.** Click **Submit**. After that, new and updated pages are submitted automatically.
4. **Scan your content.** Click **Scan**. Every published post, page and product gets a Citation Readiness score.
5. **Fix your weakest pages.** Under **All scored content** (lowest scores first), click **Fix N issues** on a page to see each issue and how to fix it. You can fix one issue at a time or the whole page, with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or your own API key. See [Citation Readiness](https://skybootstrap.com/docs/skyboot-ai-markdown/citation-readiness/).

If you use Cloudflare or another CDN, purge `/llms.txt` and `/llms-full.txt` there after setup.

## How do I give my team access?

By default, editors can view AI Analytics and AI Visibility, fix content and use the AI API key, and authors can fix their own posts. Change this under **AI Markdown > Permissions**, by role or for one person. See [Permissions](https://skybootstrap.com/docs/skyboot-ai-markdown/permissions/).

## What should I check later?

| When | Where | What to look for |
| --- | --- | --- |
| After 1 week | AI Analytics | The first **IP verified** crawler visits |
| Every month | AI Analytics > Pages AI reads most | Your best citation candidates. Keep them current and answer-first |
| Every month | AI Analytics > Assistants sending visitors | Which assistants send you people, and to which pages |
| After big content updates | AI Visibility > IndexNow | Click **Submit all URLs** once |

## FAQ

### How long does it take to set up Skyboot AI Markdown?

About 10 minutes for the checklist. Scanning a large site and fixing your weakest pages takes longer, but you can do that over several days.

### Do I need an AI API key to use the plugin?

No. Every feature works without one. A key from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini or OpenRouter only lets you generate fixes inside WordPress. Without a key you can fix pages by opening ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot or Perplexity with a ready-made prompt.

### Why does AI Analytics show no data after installing?

AI crawlers have not visited yet, or the site is a local or staging copy that crawlers cannot reach. On a live site the first verified visits usually show up within days to a few weeks. Run the crawler access test to rule out a block.

### Does the plugin change my existing pages?

No. Your HTML pages, theme and SEO plugin output stay the same. The plugin adds Markdown versions and `llms.txt` next to them, and it only edits a post when you apply a fix yourself.

### Will Skyboot AI Markdown slow down my site?

No. Markdown is generated only when an AI agent asks for it, and then cached. Crawler checks run after the page has been sent, so visitors do not wait.