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LlamaIndex co-founder Jerry Liu argues Markdown and HTML are poorly suited for AI agents, calling for an agent-native document format

Developer Jason suggested MDX as a potential agent-native solution.

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Jerry Liu@jerryjliu0#670inAI

Agree with everything except the Markdown part

There's got to be a better agent-native format for representing unstructured docs

Not convinced it's markdown or html

jason@jxnlco

I need Google Docs but just for markdown files.

Multiplayer comments. Syncing resolving comments.

Suggestion mode Edit mode Edit history Maybe some sense of multi edits.

Easy cli access.

10:22 AM · Jun 7, 2026 · 8.2K Views
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Negative users criticize markdown for documentation as it always breaks beyond its original design for notes, in response to calls for agent-native formats.

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jason@jxnlco

@jerryjliu0 Mdx

Jerry Liu@jerryjliu0

Agree with everything except the Markdown part

There's got to be a better agent-native format for representing unstructured docs

Not convinced it's markdown or html

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Becker Meister@MeisterCoins

@jerryjliu0 what does agent-native even look like? it's all tokens anyway

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Strata@ChainZenit

@jerryjliu0 that’s a fair point, have you looked into structured json instead?

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Rugbist@rugbist_

@jerryjliu0 build your own at this point

thats what everyone ends up doing anyway

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Alex YGift@Radipdegen

@jerryjliu0 markdown for notes, but for actual docs the format always breaks the moment u need it to do one thing it wasnt designed for

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preset127User@MOOOOrion

@jerryjliu0 First question: Is it human readable or not?

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@jerryjliu0 oldest challenge in the book it is definitely markdown/html maybe with some kind of yaml/json add on

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douglas@0RACLEofAI

@jerryjliu0 How are novice users supposed to easily navigate and manually edit long complex htmls?

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Chamu@chakrisimply

@MeisterCoins @jerryjliu0 Hierarchical and/or Graph

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