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Install your Agentic Kit on cPanel / shared hosting

If your website is hosted on a shared host like Bluehost, HostGator, SiteGround, Hostinger, GoDaddy, IONOS, OVH, Loopia, or One.com — you almost certainly have access to a control panel called cPanel, Plesk, or a custom dashboard built on the same tools.

This guide is the fastest install of all. About 3 minutes.

Step 1 — Log in and open the File Manager

  1. Log in to your hosting control panel. The login URL is usually one of:
    • https://your-host.com/cpanel
    • https://your-domain.com:2083
    • The link in your hosting welcome email.
  2. Find and click File Manager.

Step 2 — Find your web root

Navigate to the folder named public_html. This is your website's root.

Some hosts use a different name:

  • Plesk: httpdocs
  • Older shared hosts: www or htdocs

You're in the right place if you can see your site's existing files — typically index.html, index.php, or (for WordPress) wp-config.php, wp-admin/, and wp-content/.

Step 3 — Upload all three files

  1. Click the Upload button in the toolbar.
  2. Select all three files from the ZIP you downloaded:
    • agents.json
    • llms.txt
    • agent-instructions.md
  3. Wait for each upload to complete (you'll see a green progress bar).
  4. Click Go Back to "/home/.../public_html" to return to the file listing.

⚠️ Common mistake. Don't upload into a subfolder like public_html/wp-content/uploads/ or public_html/files/. The files must sit directly inside public_html so they're served at the root of your domain.

Step 4 — Confirm permissions

The default upload permissions in cPanel are 644, which is correct. If you want to double-check:

  1. Right-click each file → Change Permissions.
  2. Set to 0644 (Read for everyone, Write for owner).

Step 5 — Verify in your browser

Open three new tabs:

  • https://your-domain.com/agents.json → should show the JSON
  • https://your-domain.com/llms.txt → should show plain text
  • https://your-domain.com/agent-instructions.md → should show markdown

Done.

Step 6 (recommended) — Add the auto-discovery snippet

Tell visiting AI bots exactly where these files live. Edit your site's template (whichever file produces the <head> tag) and paste this just before the </head> close:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/json" title="Agent Action Map" href="/agents.json">
<link rel="alternate" type="text/plain" title="LLM Context" href="/llms.txt">
<link rel="alternate" type="text/markdown" title="Agent Runbook" href="/agent-instructions.md">

Where to paste depends on your site:

  • Plain HTML: edit index.html (or whatever your homepage is) directly in File Manager.
  • WordPress: see the WordPress guide.
  • Custom CMS: find the file that produces your global <head>.

Troubleshooting

404 on the URL. The file is not in public_html itself. It's likely in a subfolder. Move it to the root.

403 forbidden. File permissions wrong. Set to 644 via right-click → Change Permissions.

The URL serves a download instead of displaying. That's fine — agents read the bytes either way. To force inline display, add this to your .htaccess in public_html:

AddType application/json .json
AddType text/plain .txt
AddType text/markdown .md

My host's File Manager doesn't have an Upload button. Some custom panels hide it under Actions → Upload. If you can't find it, fall back to FTP/SFTP — most hosts give you SFTP credentials by default.

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