---
title: "Serving Markdown to AI agents who ask for it - Glass Aisle"
description: "What it means to serve Markdown when an agent asks for it, why Glass Aisle weights it at 1 point, and how stores behind Cloudflare can turn it on."
url: "https://glassaisle.com/checks/markdown-for-agents"
---

# Offer agents a Markdown version of your pages

Some agents ask for a page as Markdown, plain text with light formatting, because it's much smaller than HTML. A site can answer that request with a Markdown version of the same page.

Check X4 in the Agent experience dimension, worth 1 point of 100 and measured by software.

## What we check

We request a product page with the header `Accept: text/markdown`. It passes when the answer comes back as `text/markdown`, or when the HTML links to a Markdown version with a `rel="alternate"` link.

## Why it matters

Low impact: an emerging, cheaper way for agents to read pages.

It's worth 1 point of 100, since few agents ask for Markdown yet.

## How to fix it

On Cloudflare, enable Markdown for Agents. Typical effort: 15 minutes.

1. If your domain runs through your own Cloudflare account on a Pro or Business plan, turn on Markdown for Agents in AI Crawl Control. Cloudflare then converts pages to Markdown for clients that ask.
2. A headless storefront can answer the request itself, by returning Markdown when the Accept header asks for it.

## Check it yourself

Ask for a product page as Markdown and read the Content-Type line:

```
curl -sI -H "Accept: text/markdown" https://yourstore.com/products/your-product
```

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