Markdown Rendering in Assistant Replies

You may have noticed that some assistant replies look a little richer than plain text — with bold headings, bullet lists, or neatly formatted code blocks. That's Markdown at work. Markdown is a lightweight system for adding formatting to text using simple symbols. A word wrapped in double asterisks (**like this**) becomes **bold**. A line starting with a hyphen becomes a bullet point. A chunk of text fenced with triple backticks becomes a formatted code block. It was designed to be readable even before it's rendered — the symbols feel natural rather than cluttered.

On this site, assistant messages are automatically rendered as Markdown. That means when a model decides to structure its answer with headers or a numbered list, you'll see the intended layout rather than the raw symbols. It makes longer, structured answers — step-by-step instructions, comparisons, code examples — much easier to read at a glance. Your own messages are displayed as plain text, exactly as you typed them.