Cloudflare launched a feature that converts HTML pages to markdown when AI systems request it. Sites on its network can now serve lighter content to bots without building separate pages.
The feature, called Markdown for Agents, works through HTTP content negotiation. An AI crawler sends a request with Accept: text/markdown in the header. Cloudflare intercepts it, fetches the original HTML from the origin server, converts it to markdown, and delivers the result.
The launch arrives days after Google’s John Mueller called the idea of serving markdown…
