# AgentDiet Markdown Distill

> AgentDiet Markdown Distill is a paid API for AI agents from mcp-gateway.agentdiet.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-22).

Fetches a URL and distills its content into compressed Markdown, achieving high compression ratios (~91%) for efficient downstream consumption.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://mcp-gateway.agentdiet.dev/v1/markdown-distill?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-22
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/agentdiet-markdown-distill-29fa66e4
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_DHVoyoAg5jiQFufoVtLkl

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-markdown-distill-29fa66e4
```

Example prompt: Can you fetch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model and distill it into clean, compressed Markdown so I can use it as context?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to fetch a public URL and convert its content into compact, LLM-ready Markdown in a single paid API call, especially when token efficiency matters. It is ideal for agent pipelines that need to ingest web content without dealing with raw HTML parsing. Prefer it over generic scraping tools when you want both extraction and compression in one step, billed at a per-call micropayment via USDC on Base.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unreachable URL returns an error status
- Protected/paywalled pages may return incomplete or empty content
- Very large pages may timeout or return partial markdown
- Malformed input schema (missing 'type' or 'method') returns a validation error
- Payment failure (insufficient USDC) returns HTTP 402

## How this service works

Deterministic B2A/A2A/MCP/x402/MPP/L402 execution and intelligence node at https://mcp-gateway.agentdiet.dev settling in USDC on Base.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with a 'data' field containing the distilled Markdown content, a 'status' field ('ok' on success), and a 'roi_proof' object showing the compression_ratio_pct achieved (e.g. 91.4%), confirming how much the source was compressed.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "POST"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "url": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "mode": {
       "type": "string"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "data": {},
  "status": "ok",
  "roi_proof": {
   "compression_ratio_pct": 91.4
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/agentdiet-markdown-distill-29fa66e4/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from mcp-gateway.agentdiet.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/mcp-gateway.agentdiet.dev/llms.txt)