Document agent feedback feature for AI agents

Author: fern-api[bot]

fern/products/docs/docs.yml

@@ -204,6 +204,9 @@ navigation:
       - page: API catalog discovery
         path: ./pages/ai/api-catalog.mdx
         slug: api-catalog
+      - page: Agent feedback
+        path: ./pages/ai/agent-feedback.mdx
+        slug: agent-feedback
       - section: Ask Fern
         slug: ask-fern
         contents:

fern/products/docs/pages/ai/agent-feedback.mdx

@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+---
+title: Agent feedback
+description: Collect structured feedback from AI agents about your documentation quality, coverage, and clarity.
+---
+
+Fern automatically instructs AI agents to submit feedback after they consume your documentation. The feedback endpoint is included in the [default page directive](/learn/docs/ai-features/agent-directives) and in the `## Agent Feedback` section appended to [`llms.txt` and `llms-full.txt`](/learn/docs/ai-features/llms-txt), so agents discover it without any configuration on your part.
+
+When an agent reads a page, the directive tells it to POST a short report — what worked, what was unclear, or what was missing — along with the page URL and a sentiment signal. This gives you structured, machine-generated signal about documentation quality that complements [human on-page feedback](/learn/docs/customization/user-feedback).
+
+## How it works
+
+Every agent-facing response includes the feedback endpoint URL and request schema:
+
+1. **Per-page Markdown** (`.md` URLs): the default directive includes a one-line reference to the endpoint.
+2. **`llms.txt` and `llms-full.txt`**: an `## Agent Feedback` section at the end of the response contains the full endpoint URL, expected headers, and JSON body schema.
+
+Agents are instructed to report **positive** feedback when documentation was clear and helped complete the user's task, and **negative** feedback when they encountered errors, missing information, or confusing instructions.
+
+No setup is required. The endpoint and directives are enabled automatically for all Fern documentation sites.
+
+## Endpoint reference
+
+```
+POST https://fai.buildwithfern.com/agent-feedback/{domain}
+Content-Type: application/json
+```
+
+| Field | Type | Required | Description |
+| --- | --- | --- | --- |
+| `page_url` | `string` | At least one of `page_url` or `message` | The documentation page URL the feedback is about. |
+| `message` | `string` | At least one of `page_url` or `message` | Free-text feedback from the agent. |
+| `agent_name` | `string` | No | Name or identifier of the agent submitting feedback. |
+| `sentiment` | `"positive"` \| `"negative"` | No | Whether the documentation experience was positive or negative. |
+
+`{domain}` is your documentation site's domain (e.g., `docs.example.com`).
+
+### Example request
+
+```bash
+curl -X POST https://fai.buildwithfern.com/agent-feedback/docs.example.com \
+  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
+  -d '{
+    "page_url": "https://docs.example.com/getting-started",
+    "message": "Authentication section was clear and complete.",
+    "agent_name": "Claude",
+    "sentiment": "positive"
+  }'
+```
+
+### Validation and limits
+
+- At least one of `page_url` or `message` is required. Requests with neither return `400`.
+- `sentiment` must be `"positive"` or `"negative"` if provided. Other values return `422`.
+- `message` and `page_url` are truncated to 2,000 characters; `agent_name` to 100.
+- Rate limits: 10 requests per minute and 100 per day per IP address. Exceeding the limit returns `429` with a `Retry-After` header.

fern/products/docs/pages/ai/llms-txt/directives.mdx

@@ -6,11 +6,13 @@ description: Configure the default directive prepended to every page served to A
 Every page served to AI agents is automatically prepended with a default directive that tells agents how to navigate your documentation programmatically:
 
 ```text title="Default page directive" wordWrap
-For clean Markdown of any page, append .md to the page URL. For a complete documentation index, see https://docs.example.com/llms.txt. For full documentation content, see https://docs.example.com/llms-full.txt.
+For clean Markdown of any page, append .md to the page URL. For a complete documentation index, see https://docs.example.com/llms.txt. For full documentation content, see https://docs.example.com/llms-full.txt. For AI client integration (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.), connect to the MCP server at https://docs.example.com/_mcp/server. To submit feedback about these docs, POST to https://fai.buildwithfern.com/agent-feedback/docs.example.com with JSON body: { "page_url": "string", "message": "string", "agent_name": "string", "sentiment": "positive" | "negative" }.
 ```
 
 The URLs in the directive are generated from your site's domain and basepath. The directive is injected after the frontmatter metadata section but before the page body, so agents see it first even if they truncate the rest of the page. It applies to individual page Markdown (`.md`/`.mdx` URLs) and to each page section within `llms-full.txt`, and human-facing documentation is unaffected.
 
+The directive also includes the [agent feedback](/learn/docs/ai-features/agent-feedback) endpoint URL and schema, instructing agents to submit feedback about documentation quality after answering a query.
+
 ## Customize agent directives
 
 To override the default, set a custom directive using the [`agents` key in `docs.yml`](/learn/docs/configuration/site-level-settings#agents-configuration):

fern/products/docs/pages/ai/llms-txt/overview.mdx

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 ## Learn more
 
-<CardGroup cols={3}>
+<CardGroup cols={2}>
   <Anchor id="custom-files">
     <Card title="Customize LLM output" icon="sliders" href="/learn/docs/ai-features/customize-llm-output">
       Exclude pages, filter content with tags, or serve your own custom files.
@@ -82,5 +82,8 @@ The two files differ:
   <Card title="Analytics and integration" icon="chart-line" href="/learn/docs/ai-features/llms-txt-analytics">
     Track LLM traffic and surface `llms.txt` endpoints to readers.
   </Card>
+  <Card title="Agent feedback" icon="message-lines" href="/learn/docs/ai-features/agent-feedback">
+    Collect structured feedback from AI agents about documentation quality.
+  </Card>
 </CardGroup>
 

fern/products/docs/pages/ai/overview.mdx

@@ -47,4 +47,5 @@ Your site is automatically optimized for AI tools and search engines. Fern hosts
   <Card title="`llms.txt`" icon="file-text" href="/learn/docs/ai-features/llms-txt" />
   <Card title="Agent directives" icon="compass" href="/learn/docs/ai-features/agent-directives" />
   <Card title="API catalog discovery" icon="radar" href="/learn/docs/ai-features/api-catalog" />
+  <Card title="Agent feedback" icon="message-lines" href="/learn/docs/ai-features/agent-feedback" />
 </CardGroup>

fern/products/docs/pages/changelog/2026-06-05.mdx

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+---
+tags: ["ai"]
+---
+
+## Agent feedback
+
+AI agents can now submit structured feedback about your documentation. Fern automatically includes a feedback endpoint in the [default page directive](/learn/docs/ai-features/agent-directives) and in a dedicated `## Agent Feedback` section appended to `llms.txt` and `llms-full.txt`, so agents discover it without any setup.
+
+Agents report whether documentation was helpful (positive sentiment) or encountered issues like missing information or confusing instructions (negative sentiment). Feedback is collected per-domain with rate limiting.
+
+<Button intent="none" outlined rightIcon="arrow-right" href="/learn/docs/ai-features/agent-feedback">Read the docs</Button>

fern/products/docs/pages/customization/user-feedback.mdx

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ description: Collect on-page feedback and enable edit suggestions from users in
 ---
 
 
-Fern offers a variety of ways to track feedback and suggested improvements from users. 
+Fern offers a variety of ways to track feedback and suggested improvements from users. For feedback submitted by AI agents rather than human visitors, see [agent feedback](/learn/docs/ai-features/agent-feedback).
 
 ## On-page feedback