# AI-friendly content formats & feeds

> AI-friendly formats and feeds are versions of your content made for machines, such as RSS feeds, llms.txt, Markdown pages or a JSON API.

- **Check ID:** A17
- **Area:** [AI Readiness](https://be1st.ai/glossary/ai-readiness)
- **Tool:** [AI Readiness](https://be1st.ai/tools/ai-readiness)
- **Page:** https://be1st.ai/glossary/ai-readiness/ai-friendly-content-formats

## Why it matters

AI crawlers and agents prefer clean content without navigational noise. Sites that provide Markdown or clean content versions are processed more efficiently and have a higher chance of being included in AI responses.

## In practice

Cloudflare offers a Markdown for Agents feature: when an AI agent sends a request with Accept: text/markdown, it receives a clean Markdown version of the page instead of full HTML. Stripe provides a comprehensive REST API with an OpenAPI specification.

## How be1st checks it

Evaluates whether the site provides content in formats optimized for AI processing. The check looks for links to .md page versions (in the HTML and in llms.txt), Markdown via content negotiation, RSS feeds, and JSON or API feeds. Two or more formats mean the check passes; if the site has none, the check is not counted (N/A).

[AI Readiness](https://be1st.ai/tools/ai-readiness), Formats tab.

Every check ends as: Pass, Warning, Fail.

## Sources

- [Cloudflare Markdown Conversion](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/features/markdown-conversion/) (Cloudflare)
- [The /llms.txt File Specification](https://llmstxt.org/) (llmstxt.org)

## Related terms

- [llms.txt existence](https://be1st.ai/glossary/ai-readiness/llms-txt-existence): llms.txt is a Markdown file at the root of a website that gives AI models a short overview of the site and links to its most important pages.
- [Linkability of key facts](https://be1st.ai/glossary/ai-readiness/linkability-of-key-facts): Linkability of key facts means the important parts of a page have their own anchors (#section), so anyone, an AI answer included, can link straight to them.
- [Changelog / release notes](https://be1st.ai/glossary/ai-readiness/changelog-release-notes): A changelog, or release notes, is a dated public list of the changes to a product or website: new features, fixes and removals.
- [Semantic HTML (article, section, nav, aside)](https://be1st.ai/glossary/ai-readiness/semantic-html): Semantic HTML uses elements that say what their content is, such as article, section, nav, aside and main, instead of generic div boxes.
- [Markdown for AI agents](https://be1st.ai/glossary/ai-readiness/markdown-for-ai-agents): Markdown for AI agents means a website can serve a page as clean Markdown, through a .md URL or content negotiation, instead of the full HTML.
- [Dashes in text (AI writing tell)](https://be1st.ai/glossary/ai-readiness/dashes-in-text): Long dashes in a text (the em dash, and the en dash outside number ranges) are the best known trace of text written by a language model.