Introducing Markdown for Agents

Cloudflare has introduced Markdown for Agents, a feature that lets AI systems request and receive pages in markdown instead of HTML, with real-time conversion at the source for enabled zones. The mechanism works by clients sending an Accept header with text/markdown, after which Cloudflare fetches the original HTML from the origin and converts it to markdown before delivery.

The article provides practical examples, including curl commands to fetch the blog page and to use a Workers-powered fetch with Accept: "text/markdown, text/html", and notes an x-markdown-tokens header indicating the approximate token count of the markdown response. It also describes the Content Signals policy, signalling that converted responses include headers such as Content-Signal: ai-train=yes, search=yes, ai-input=yes to denote permitted uses.

Start‑up details state the feature is in Beta and free for Pro, Business and Enterprise plans, with enabling steps in the Cloudflare dashboard, and references to developer documentation and blog pages for more information.