ToolsThe story, in brief
Docs pages support Markdown responses
Vercel quietly shipped Markdown API responses—agentic workflows just got cheaper to build.
The KeyNews take
Why it matters
Vercel's Markdown response support lowers friction for AI agents and CLI tools to consume documentation at scale, enabling faster indexing and programmatic discovery without parsing HTML.
The key facts
6 to knowVercel Docs now supports Markdown responses via Accept: text/markdown header
Enables agentic workflows, CLI tools, and indexing pipelines to consume docs natively
Sitemap.md inclusion allows programmatic discovery of additional docs pages
Reduces parsing overhead for AI agent tooling integration
Includes sitemap.md link for programmatic discovery of additional pages
Published January 13, 2026
Go to the source
Vercel Blogvercel.com
Publisher excerpt: You can now request as by sending the header with the value .Vercel documentationMarkdownAccepttext/markdown This makes it easier to use docs content in agentic and CLI workflows, indexing pipelines, and tooling that expects .text/markdown Markdown responses include a link at the end. You and your…