The agent-readable web: serving the right representation to the right crawler

Most web content is still built for browsers, but agents increasingly need a cleaner representation of the same underlying content. Rather than creating a parallel web of separate Markdown URLs, the better model is HTTP content negotiation: one canonical URL that returns HTML for browsers and Markdown for agents that ask for it. This piece lays out a practical rollout covering .md endpoints, caching, and the fidelity checks that determine whether the representation actually improves retrieval.

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Rendering, Style, and Layout: When Things Go Wrong

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