# Tristan Denyer

> Engineering Manager, team builder & coach, and former UX designer based in San Francisco. Writes about AI tooling, Next.js security, engineering management, and product design.

- Site: https://www.tristandenyer.com
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## Posts

- [The Complete List of AI Files Your Website Needs in 2026 (llms.txt, ai.txt, AGENTS.md) with AI Prompts](https://www.tristandenyer.com/work/ai-files-for-websites-2026): Every week brings another file the AI web supposedly needs. This post sorts what's adopted from what's noise, organized by what each file actually does, with prompts to generate every one of them.
  - Markdown: https://www.tristandenyer.com/work/ai-files-for-websites-2026.md
- [How We Got Our AI Agent to Remember Everything and Stop Clobbering Each Other's Work](https://www.tristandenyer.com/work/ai-agent-persistent-memory-knowledge-system): A practical guide (with prompts) to persistent memory and shared context for dev teams using AI coding agents.
  - Markdown: https://www.tristandenyer.com/work/ai-agent-persistent-memory-knowledge-system.md
- [Your Next.js App Might Be Leaking Secrets and Here's How to Find Out](https://www.tristandenyer.com/work/nextjs-leaking-secrets-snytch): Learn how secrets leak into Next.js client bundles through shared imports, NEXT_PUBLIC_ misuse, and prop serialization, and how @snytch/nextjs detects them before they ship.
  - Markdown: https://www.tristandenyer.com/work/nextjs-leaking-secrets-snytch.md
- [Data Architecture Documentation](https://www.tristandenyer.com/work/data-architecture): Big data architecture poster I designed while at RealGravity helped explain this complex system to the team.
  - Markdown: https://www.tristandenyer.com/work/data-architecture.md
- [UI Development Study: How Do People Hold and Interact with Their Phone?](https://www.tristandenyer.com/work/user-research-people-hold-interact-phone): Results from a survey I wrote and conducted to discover how people held and interacted with their phone.
  - Markdown: https://www.tristandenyer.com/work/user-research-people-hold-interact-phone.md

## Tools
- [AI Readiness Check](https://www.tristandenyer.com/ai-readiness-check): A free tool that scans any URL for 17 AI readiness signals — llms.txt, robots.txt AI rules, schema.org, content negotiation, and more — and returns a graded scorecard.