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Use the Accept Header to Serve Markdown Instead of HTML to LLMs
Make your website accessible to LLM agents by serving plain Markdown when they request text/plain or text/markdown. Save tokens and improve agent experience with this simple Astro and Cloudflare Workers implementation.
I decided to make my Astro sites more accessible to LLMs by having them return Markdown versions of pages when the Accept header has text/plain or text/markdown preceding text/html. Below is a minimal worker script that inspects the Accept header and serves markdown when requested, otherwise falls back to HTML: By serving lean, semantic Markdown to LLM agents, you can achieve a 10x reduction in token usage while making your content more accessible and efficient for the AI systems that increasingly browse the web.
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