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description: Markdown for Agents uses in-process streaming conversion, supports larger HTML pages, and changes response headers.
title: More efficient Markdown for Agents conversion
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October 9, 2026

## More efficient Markdown for Agents conversion

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[Markdown for Agents](https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/reference/markdown-for-agents/) now converts HTML with an in-process streaming engine at the edge. It processes content as it arrives instead of buffering the HTML response and sending it to a separate conversion service. This reduces conversion overhead and memory use.

This release also changes the conversion limit and response headers:

- Conversion supports up to 6 MiB (6,291,456 bytes) of decompressed HTML, increased from 2 MiB (2,097,152 bytes). The limit applies after decompression, not to the compressed response size.
- Converted responses no longer generate the `x-markdown-tokens` or `x-original-tokens` headers. Clients that use these values need to calculate token counts themselves.
- `Content-Length` is removed from converted responses rather than recalculated, because the Markdown body is streamed.

For more information, refer to the [Markdown for Agents documentation](https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/reference/markdown-for-agents/).

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