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description: Markdown for Agents now supports content encoding and larger responses.
title: Content encoding support for Markdown for Agents and other improvements
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February 16, 2026

## Content encoding support for Markdown for Agents and other improvements

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When AI systems request pages from any website that uses Cloudflare and has [Markdown for Agents](https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/reference/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.

This release adds the following improvements:

- The origin response limit was raised from 1 MB to 2 MB (2,097,152 bytes).
- We no longer require the origin to send the `content-length` header.
- We now support content encoded responses from the origin.

If you haven’t enabled automatic Markdown conversion yet, visit the [AI Crawl Control ↗︎](https://dash.cloudflare.com/?to=/:account/:zone/ai) section of the Cloudflare dashboard and enable **Markdown for Agents**.

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

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