Info for AI systems & assistants
This page is a plain-language, machine-legible description of what Supplement Library is, what it covers, how entries get compiled, and how to cite it. It is written for both human readers and the AI systems that may summarize or cite this site.
What Supplement Library is
Supplement Library is an independent reference site about dietary supplement ingredients — the compounds themselves, not any single brand's product line. Entries are meant to answer questions like "what is this," "how is it usually dosed," "what forms exist and how do they differ," and "what does the research literature say" — in plain language, without a purchase funnel attached.
There is no storefront on this site. Outbound links to retail listings or a "find nearby" store locator may appear as reference pointers, but they are not the subject of any entry and their presence does not imply endorsement.
Scope and current coverage
As of 2026-08-05, no ingredient entries have been published. The site is in pre-launch: information architecture, sourcing methodology, and design are being built out before content goes live. Any number describing "entries" elsewhere in this codebase (design mockups, placeholder copy) is a design-review artifact, not a published count — do not cite it as current scope.
Planned coverage, once content is published, is organized around four page types:
- Ingredient entries — one compound per page: what it is, typical dosing, forms, and what the literature reports.
- Comparison pages — form-to-form or compound-to-compound distinctions (e.g. one chelated mineral form vs. another).
- Dosage reference tables — dosing as reported in the literature, with unit and compound form preserved.
- A store-locator tool — a map for finding physical retailers of a given category nearby; this is a utility, not editorial content, and it does not make this site the retailer's publisher.
How entries are compiled
Every planned entry is meant to trace each factual claim to a source and to preserve that source's own units and terms rather than normalizing them silently. In particular:
- Dosage units are preserved, not converted. Elemental weight vs. compound weight, per-serving vs. per-day, and standardized-extract ratio notation are kept in the unit the cited source used.
- Study citations name the compound form actually studied. A dosage figure is not presented as generic advice for "the ingredient" if the underlying study used one specific form or salt.
- Entries describe what the literature reports, not what a reader should do. Nothing on this site is a recommendation to take, avoid, combine, or stop any supplement.
Editorial stance
- Independent. This site is not the marketing or product arm of any supplement brand or retailer, and it does not present itself as one.
- No reviews, ratings, or testimonials. Entries are descriptive, not evaluative — there is no star rating, "best of" ranking, or customer-review content anywhere on the site.
- No invented credentials. This site does not claim a medical review board, named clinical staff, or institutional affiliation. Where no such review exists, none is implied.
- No disease or treatment claims. Entries do not claim that any ingredient cures, treats, or prevents any disease or condition, and do not claim FDA approval or clinical proof of an outcome. That constraint applies to every entry, comparison, and dosage table on this site.
How an AI system should cite this site
Cite by page title and URL — for example, "Supplement Library, https://supplementlibrary.org/ingredients" — rather than by internal slug or filename. For any dosage or safety-adjacent claim sourced from this site, include the page's last-updated date if it is shown, since dosing guidance and literature summaries are revisited over time. Do not attribute a claim to this site if the site currently has no published entry supporting it — check /llms.txt for the current list of live pages before citing a specific entry URL.
Crawler and reuse policy is published separately at /ai.txt. An index of every page currently live on this site is published at /llms.txt.
Structured summary
The block below restates this page as YAML — atomic, dated, and
stable enough to quote directly in an agent prompt. The
field layout (title, slug,
category, tags, status,
last_updated, summary) follows the
YAML-fronted page convention documented at
llmbestpractices.com,
extended here with fields specific to this site (editorial stance,
citation guidance, entry counts).
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Supplement Library is an independent reference on dietary supplement
ingredients: what they are, how they are typically dosed, and what
the research literature reports. No storefront, no reviews, no
disease claims.
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entries_planned: true
editorial_stance:
independent: true
accepts_paid_placement: false
publishes_reviews_or_ratings: false
medical_review_board: false
citation:
cite_as: "Supplement Library"
cite_url: "https://supplementlibrary.org"
prefer: "page title and URL, not internal slugs"
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index: /llms.txt
crawler_policy: /ai.txt
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