Markdown for Agents and Statistics

Markdown for Agents and Statistics converts your WordPress content to Markdown and serves it

to AI agents and language model tools that request it via HTTP content negotiation

(Accept: text/markdown).

The Chancery Lane Project is a charity that helps organisations reduce emissions using the power of legal documents and processes. We’ve published this plugin as we believe that making content more legible for AI Agents makes a meaningful difference to their energy usage – not only by reducing the amount of tokens required (by up to 90% over HTML) to consume the content, but also minimising the server resources required to render, process and display pages at source.

How it works:

Posts and taxonomy archive pages are converted to Markdown and saved as static

files on disk inside wp-content/uploads/.

When a visitor (or AI agent) requests a page with Accept: text/markdown in

the HTTP headers, WordPress serves the pre-generated .md file directly —

no page render required.

A <link rel="alternate" type="text/markdown"> tag is added to each page’s

so agents can discover Markdown versions automatically.

Features:

Content negotiation (Accept: text/markdown, ?output_format=md, or known AI User-Agents)

Taxonomy archive support — category, tag, and custom taxonomy term pages served as Markdown post listings