Copy as markdown: meaning, and what it is for

Copy as markdown means putting a markdown version of the current page or document on your clipboard in one click, ready to paste into a chat with an AI coding agent. A normal copy gives you rich text or HTML; this gives you the plain, structured text the agent would have asked for.

The action exists because the obvious alternative (selecting text and copying) produces rich text or HTML, which most AI chat surfaces accept but read awkwardly. The markdown version is shorter, cleaner, and what the agent would have asked for anyway.

Where the button shows up

On a hosted document or review page, "Copy as markdown" lifts the entire artifact onto the clipboard in one click. On CobaltCapture's review pages, the button appears next to the published review URL: the user pastes the markdown into Claude Code, Cursor, or whatever agent runs the next pass.

The pattern matters because the alternative is the user opening the page, manually flipping to a markdown export, downloading, and pasting the file path: three more steps to do the same job. One button collapses the workflow.

Frequently asked questions

How is "copy as markdown" different from a regular copy?

A regular copy puts rich text or HTML on the clipboard. Copy as markdown puts the clean text equivalent: plain, agent-readable, ready to paste into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT, or any chat-style tool.

When is it useful?

Anytime the next step is "paste this into an AI tool." Bug reports, design notes, research findings, support tickets: anything that travels from a hosted page to a chat with an agent.