Somewhere in the last few years, markdown stopped being a niche format favored by developers and became the connective tissue of a much larger kind of work. SKILL.md, CLAUDE.md, README.md, system prompts, agent instructions, project briefs, knowledge-base entries: all markdown, all unremarkable. Nobody announced this shift. There was no launch event, no version 2.0, no … Continue reading Markdown and the Return of Plain Text →