By @celso
Publication Date: 2026-02-12 14:03:00
This blog post you are reading requires 16,180 tokens in HTML and 3,150 tokens when converted to Markdown. That’s an 80% reduction in token usage.
tee has quickly become Lingua Franca for agents and AI systems as a whole. The explicit structure of the format makes it ideal for AI processing, ultimately leading to better results while minimizing token waste.
The problem is that the web is HTML, not Markdown, and the page weight is the same steadily increasing over the years, making pages difficult to parse. For agents, their goal is to filter out all non-essential elements and scan the relevant content.
Converting HTML to Markdown is now a common step for any AI pipeline. Still, this process is far from ideal: it wastes computational effort, increases cost and processing complexity, and most importantly, it may not reflect the way the content creator originally intended to use their content.
What if…