XML Tag Rendering Issue

[willmcgugan]

Discussed in #47

^{Originally posted by evalstate November 15, 2025}
Hi @willmcgugan -- for some reason the first XML tag here has it's brackets stripped:

Relevant snippet from agent.jsonl

:{"sessionId":"436a7ab2-a34c-490a-a33c-4aa68c353432","update":{"content":{"text":"The following request was sent to the agents:\n\n<fastagent:request>\ngive a single word greeting in your favourite language\n</fastagent:request>\n\n

LMK if you need more etc.

#47

[willmcgugan]

@evalstate I thought maybe this was a bug in the upstream Markdown library I use. But an update didn't change anything.

I also noticed that the official commonmark libray does the same thing.

I think this may be the expected rendering of that content. I think that's because tags in Markdown are considered HTML.

As a matter of fact, GitHub renders it in the same way:

fastagent:request
give a single word greeting in your favourite language
</fastagent:request>

I'm not sure if there should be any changes to the markdown rendering for this case. Or if the solution is just to put that in a code fence.