# AgentDiet Markdown Distill (BM25 Budget Control)

> AgentDiet Markdown Distill (BM25 Budget Control) is a paid API for AI agents from agentdiet.dev, paid per call via MPP, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-23).

Fetches and distills a URL or raw HTML into compressed Markdown, structured JSON, a skeleton outline, or a BM25-ranked token-budget excerpt — returning ROI proof of tokens saved.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://agentdiet.dev/v1/markdown-distill?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-23
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Provider: agentdiet.dev
- Website: https://agentdiet.dev
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/agentdiet-dev-agentdiet-markdown-distill-bm25-budget-control-6a04eaf2
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_qMillZEBKnzM5MpcR8TJu

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability agentdiet-dev-agentdiet-markdown-distill-bm25-budget-control-6a04eaf2 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Distill the Stripe documentation page at https://stripe.com/docs/api/charges into a BM25 budget excerpt focused on 'refund a charge', and keep it under 500 tokens so I can paste it into my prompt.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when your agent needs to consume web page content within a strict token budget, especially when full-page HTML would overflow an LLM context window. The BM25 budget mode is uniquely suited when you have a specific query and want only the most relevant passage from a long page. Prefer it over generic web scrapers when you need compression ratio proofs and LLM cost savings metadata alongside the content.

## Known failure modes

- URL is unreachable or returns non-200 — fetch failure error
- HTML payload is empty or malformed — distillation returns minimal or empty content
- mode=budget without a query or max_tokens — may fall back to default markdown mode
- Token budget too low (below 20) — rejected by schema validation
- Rate limiting or payment failure via x402 — 402 Payment Required response
- Idempotency-Key collision across different payloads — may return cached result unexpectedly

## How this service works

Distill a URL or raw HTML payload with BM25 budget control (Live x402 v2, IETF MPP & MCP endpoint at https://agentdiet.dev/v1/markdown-distill)

## Output

Returns a JSON object with a `data` field containing the distilled content (Markdown string, structured JSON tables/metadata, skeleton outline, or BM25-ranked excerpt depending on mode), plus an `roi_proof` object showing raw_tokens, distilled_tokens, tokens_saved, compression_ratio_pct, roi_multiplier, and llm_cost_saved_usd. Also includes optional cache hit/miss status and billing details.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "url"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "url": {
   "type": "string",
   "minLength": 1,
   "description": "Target webpage URL to fetch and distill (or builtin://stripe-docs)"
  },
  "html": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Optional raw HTML string to distill directly without fetching"
  },
  "mode": {
   "enum": [
    "markdown",
    "structured",
    "skeleton",
    "budget"
   ],
   "type": "string",
   "default": "markdown",
   "description": "Distillation mode"
  },
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "BM25 focus query when mode=budget"
  },
  "max_tokens": {
   "type": "integer",
   "minimum": 20,
   "description": "Strict token budget ceiling when mode=budget"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "status",
  "roi_proof",
  "data"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "data": {
   "type": "object",
   "description": "Distilled Markdown, structured JSON tables/metadata, skeleton outline, or BM25 budget excerpt."
  },
  "cache": {
   "type": "object",
   "properties": {
    "status": {
     "enum": [
      "HIT",
      "MISS"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "cache_key": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "latency_ms": {
     "type": "number"
    }
   }
  },
  "status": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Execution status ('ok')"
  },
  "billing": {
   "type": "object",
   "properties": {
    "agent_id": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "payment_method": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "fee_charged_usd": {
     "type": "number"
    }
   }
  },
  "roi_proof": {
   "type": "object",
   "properties": {
    "raw_tokens": {
     "type": "integer"
    },
    "tokens_saved": {
     "type": "integer"
    },
    "roi_multiplier": {
     "type": "number"
    },
    "distilled_tokens": {
     "type": "integer"
    },
    "llm_cost_saved_usd": {
     "type": "number"
    },
    "compression_ratio_pct": {
     "type": "number"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/agentdiet-dev-agentdiet-markdown-distill-bm25-budget-control-6a04eaf2/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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