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Slashing agent token costs by 98% with RFC 9457-compliant error responses (opens in new tab)

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Cloudflare now returns RFC 9457-compliant structured Markdown and JSON error payloads to AI agents, replacing heavyweight HTML pages with machine-readable instructions. This reduces token usage by over 98%, turning brittle parsing into efficient control flow.

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