Across several different benchmarks, markdown has consistently ranked number one for retrieving and feeding context to agents, with XML as a distant second, though the reasons why remain unclear.

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Markdown has predominantly become the number one for retrieving and feeding context to the agents... across several different benchmarks, I found that they all really do point that markdown is generally the best format.

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A Quick Lesson Of AI LanguagesShane Murphy
Created: 8/13/2026, 9:50:58 AM

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