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description: Cloudflare's network supports real-time content conversion to markdown at the source.
title: Introducing Markdown for Agents
image: https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-02-12-markdown-for-agents/og.png?v=db5639391a571cb2
---

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February 12, 2026

## Introducing Markdown for Agents

[Cloudflare Fundamentals](https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/)

Copy as Markdown| [View as Markdown](https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-02-12-markdown-for-agents/index.md)| [Agent setup](https://developers.cloudflare.com/agent-setup/)

Cloudflare's network now supports real-time content conversion at the source, for enabled zones using [content negotiation ↗︎](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Guides/Content_negotiation) headers. When AI systems request pages from any website that uses Cloudflare and has Markdown for Agents enabled, they can express the preference for `text/markdown` in the request: our network will automatically and efficiently convert the HTML to markdown, when possible, on the fly.

Here is a curl example with the `Accept` negotiation header requesting this page from our developer documentation:

```bash
curl https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/reference/markdown-for-agents/ \
  -H "Accept: text/markdown"
```

The response to this request is now formatted in markdown:

```http
HTTP/2 200
date: Wed, 11 Feb 2026 11:44:48 GMT
content-type: text/markdown; charset=utf-8
content-length: 2899
vary: accept
x-markdown-tokens: 725
content-signal: ai-train=yes, search=yes, ai-input=yes

---
title: Markdown for Agents · Cloudflare Agents docs
---

## What is Markdown for Agents

Markdown has quickly become the lingua franca for agents and AI systems
as a whole. The format’s explicit structure makes it ideal for AI processing,
ultimately resulting in better results while minimizing token waste.
...
```

Refer to our [developer documentation](https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/reference/markdown-for-agents/) and our [blog announcement ↗︎](https://blog.cloudflare.com/markdown-for-agents/) for more details.

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