# Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers > Source: > Published: 2026-08-26 19:45:59+00:00 Serve Markdown to AI agents with content negotiation # Accept: text/markdown Your site already has the content. Serving a Markdown variant lets agent AI clients skip nav/scripts/layout markup and read the content directly. - 01 — Tokens A fraction of the bytes. Markdown drops nav, styles, scripts, and layout wrappers. Agents spend context on your prose, not your DOM. - 02 — Retrieval Higher signal-to-noise. No ads, related-content rails, or modal overlays muddying the text a RAG pipeline has to embed. - 03 — Latency Faster first token. Less to fetch, less to parse, less to stuff into the context window before the model starts thinking. ## How AI-ready is your URL? - Serves Markdown for `Accept: text/markdown` - Sets `Vary: Accept` - Rejects unsupported types with `406` - Honors `q` -values ## Hit a URL with `Accept: text/markdown` . We make the request from our edge. See what the origin actually returns.