Markdown for Agents Checker
HTML is useful for browsers but noisy for assistants. Markdown negotiation gives agents a smaller, quote-ready representation of the same public content.
- Surface
- Free tool
- Scope
- Public web evidence
- Auth
- None required
- Schema
- SoftwareApplication
Answer first
What it checks
The scan requests the canonical page with Accept: text/markdown, checks the content type, verifies Vary: Accept, and compares the response with HTML signals.
Detail 01
When it helps
Docs, guides, methodology pages, and fix pages benefit most because assistants need stable text, headings, links, and code snippets.
Detail 02
Cache correctly
Serve explicit markdown only when requested, set Vary: Accept, and avoid letting CDN caches mix HTML and markdown under the same key.
FAQ
Common questions
- Does every page need a markdown variant?
- No. Start with docs, guides, methodology, and fix pages where textual extraction quality matters most.
- Can I use text/* or */* to trigger markdown?
- No. Browsers often send wildcards. Serve markdown only when text/markdown is explicitly preferred.