# Highlights from the 2026 State of Knowledge Report

DevFeed: [Highlights from the 2026 State of Knowledge Report](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/highlights-from-the-2026-state-of-knowledge-report-41365.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.mintlify.com/blog/the-state-of-knowledge-2026-highlights>)

Author: Lauren Volpi

Published: 2026-09-16T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Mintlify Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/mintlify-blog.md>)

Topics: [Documentation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/documentation.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [HTML](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/html.md>), [Website](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/website.md>), [MCP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mcp.md>)

Tags: [2026](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/2026.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agents.md>), [ai-trends](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-trends.md>), [documentation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/documentation.md>), [llms-txt](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llms-txt.md>), [markdown](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/markdown.md>), [mcp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mcp.md>), [report](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/report.md>)

## AI overview

Mintlify's 2026 State of Knowledge Report examines how AI agents are changing documentation readership and access. It reports that agent requests exceeded human page loads on Mintlify-powered sites in August, with many agents using Markdown, llms.txt, agent skills, and MCP tool calls. Controlled tests across 20 documentation sites found that linking Markdown pages to llms.txt improved agent navigation and reduced token consumption.

## Source excerpt

AI agents overtook humans as the primary readers across Mintlify-powered sites. In August alone, agents made 257 million web requests compared to 131 million human page loads, which means agent traffic now outnumbers human traffic by nearly 2:1.