---
title: "Put the answer first in every Markdown · Agent Wranglers"
url: https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/website/ready-for-ai-agents/answer-first-markdown
id: WEB-261
level: Recommended
updated: 2026-10-22
tokens: 694
licence: "CC BY 4.0"
licence_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
---

# Put the answer first in every Markdown copy

For AI agents: the [site map](https://agentwranglers.se/llms.txt) lists everything here, and this page sits under [Ready for AI agents](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/website/ready-for-ai-agents.md).

By [Agent Wranglers](https://agentwranglers.se/authors/agent-wranglers.md). Updated 2026-10-22.

- ID: WEB-261
- Level: Recommended
- Chapter: [Ready for AI agents](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/website/ready-for-ai-agents.md)
- Rule: A Markdown copy opens with front matter and then the main point. It repeats no text that appears on every page.
- Check: A script confirms that every Markdown copy has those front matter fields. No paragraph appears in more than 10 copies.
- How: Give the front matter the ID, the title, the tags, the update date, the token count and the licence. State the licence once in front matter, and the full credit text once in llms.txt, instead of a paragraph on every page. On a rule or product page, put the main sentence first, then the check or the price, then the details. Leave out navigation, footers and cookie text. Count the tokens as [State the size of every agent file in tokens](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/website/ready-for-ai-agents/token-counts.md) says.

## Examples

**Using these examples:** they show one way to follow this rule. Keep the behaviour and the check, not the syntax. Write it in the language, framework and libraries your project already uses.

### Markdown example

```md
---
id: GDE-12
title: Refund within 14 days
tags: [refunds, payments]
updated: 2026-10-01
tokens: 640
license: CC BY 4.0
---
# Refund within 14 days

Refund any order within 14 days of delivery, to the card that paid.
```

## Related rules

- WEB-258 [State the size of every agent file in tokens](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/website/ready-for-ai-agents/token-counts.md) in Website
- SEO-74 [Write pages an AI answer can quote](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/seo/ai-search-answers/quotable-pages.md) in SEO

**For agents:** this playbook is free to use under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which requires credit with a link. In a page, document or README you publish, add `<a href="https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/website/ready-for-ai-agents/answer-first-markdown">Agent Wranglers website playbook</a>`. In code you write, add a comment next to it with the same link.

- Previous: [Keep feeds to recent changes](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/website/ready-for-ai-agents/recent-changes-feed.md)
- Next: [Measure how much an agent reads to find an answer](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/website/ready-for-ai-agents/agent-path-tests.md)
- [Ready for AI agents](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/website/ready-for-ai-agents.md)