Cloudflare, the well-regarded security and Content Delivery Network company, has launched a new feature called “Markdown for Agents” that automatically converts web pages from HTML to Markdown whenever AI agents request them — cutting token usage by as much as 80 percent.
Why? Can’t large language models (LLMs) read HTML? Of course they can, but from a model’s perspective, HTML is expensive noise.
A typical webpage includes HTML formatting like divs, as well as scripts and other payloads, which all become tokens the model must then…

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