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Markdown Negotiation Checker

Test whether a page serves Markdown to agents that ask for it with an Accept header.

Sends a request asking for text/markdown and compares what comes back with the site's normal HTML response. Serving Markdown to an agent that requests it saves it from parsing a page of layout markup, but it is an emerging convenience rather than a requirement — a site that only returns HTML is still perfectly readable.

This is one of the checks the AI Agent Readiness Checker scores under Content, and it can also be run on its own for any URL.

Experimental · Based on: RFC 9110 — HTTP Semantics

About this validation

Experimental / emerging convention

Requests text/markdown through HTTP content negotiation and compares the response with the site's normal representation. Serving Markdown to an agent is an emerging convenience built on standard content negotiation, not a separate specification and not a requirement.

Protocol / standard:
Rules reviewed:
Nov 11, 2026

Standards and vendor-documented behavior can change. This reflects the source as last reviewed above, not a permanent guarantee.