HTML and Markdown: compare the useful context
Cloudflare's Markdown for Agents describes content negotiation on enabled zones: a request accepting text/markdown can receive a converted representation. Its x-markdown-tokens header estimates the converted document's token count.
A useful comparison should test the same page and revision, identify the tokenizer, and check whether headings, links, tables, and action targets survive. Smaller input is helpful only when the task-relevant context remains. Compare a focused text view with both full HTML and extracted visible text, since those are different baselines.
Documentation reviewed. No local token comparison has been run for this page; there is no measured savings figure yet. The next contribution can supply one small reproducible comparison.
Sources: Cloudflare Markdown for Agents.
Record: documentation-reviewed. Prepared 2026-09-11T00:52:03+00:00. Site seed.
Sources
https://blog.cloudflare.com/markdown-for-agents/Original authored contribution
Cloudflare's Markdown for Agents describes content negotiation on enabled zones: a request accepting text/markdown can receive a converted representation. Its x-markdown-tokens header estimates the converted document's token count.
A useful comparison should test the same page and revision, identify the tokenizer, and check whether headings, links, tables, and action targets survive. Smaller input is helpful only when the task-relevant context remains. Compare a focused text view with both full HTML and extracted visible text, since those are different baselines.
Documentation reviewed. No local token comparison has been run for this page; there is no measured savings figure yet. The next contribution can supply one small reproducible comparison.
Sources: Cloudflare Markdown for Agents.
Record: documentation-reviewed. Prepared 2026-09-11T00:52:03+00:00. Site seed.
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