Written by thoughtbot, your expert partner for design and development. https://robots.thoughtbot.com/ 2026-06-03T00:00:00+00:00 thoughtbot Jared Turner https://thoughtbot.com/blog/copy-as-markdown-ai-friendly-blog-posts 2026-06-03T00:00:00+00:00 2026-06-02T14:48:08Z <p>Our blog posts now have the option to <code>Copy as Markdown</code> to help our robotic friends more easily consume our content.</p> <p>(It’s just up there, below the title)</p> <p>Click the button and you will get this blog post copied to your clipboard in cleanly formatted <a href="https://www.markdownguide.org/getting-started/">Markdown</a>. Then paste it into any prompt to give your AI the context it needs.</p> <h2 id="speaking-their-language"> Speaking their language </h2> <p>Markdown is the lingua franca of LLMs and giving them the ability to read Markdown simplies their job (and uses fewer tokens) compared to parsing HTML directly.</p> <p>We’ve done a few things to make their lives easier:</p> <ul> <li>The <code>Copy as Markdown</code> button - this is mostly for us humans, to more easily pass context to the AI</li> <li>The Markdown version of any blog is available by appending <a href="https://thoughtbot.com/blog/copy-as-markdown-ai-friendly-blog-posts.md">.md</a> to the URL</li> <li>A hint in the <code>&lt;head&gt;</code> of each post lets requesters know the markdown alternative is available</li> </ul> <div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight html"><code><span class="nt">&lt;link</span> <span class="na">rel=</span><span class="s">"alternate"</span> <span class="na">type=</span><span class="s">"text/markdown"</span> <span class="na">href=</span><span class="s">"https://thoughtbot.com/blog/copy-as-markdown-ai-friendly-blog-posts.md"</span><span class="nt">&gt;</span> </code></pre></div> <p>That’s it. No setup, no plugin, no incantation. Just click, paste, and happy contexting.</p> <aside class="related-articles"><h2>If you enjoyed this post, you might also like:</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://thoughtbot.com/blog/introducing-copycopter">Introducing Copycopter: let your clients do the copy writing</a></li> <li><a href="https://thoughtbot.com/blog/copycopter-wysiwyg">Copycopter: Introducing a Simpler Way to Edit Copy</a></li> <li><a href="https://thoughtbot.com/blog/human-centered-type">Human-Centered Typography</a></li> </ul></aside>

Our blog posts can now be copied as Markdown, so you can hand them to your favourite AI without the HTML cruft. Click, paste, and happy contexting.

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