Markdown as AI orchestration layer

Markdown has evolved from a simple authoring shorthand into a de‑facto, human‑readable scripting and provenance format used to store prompts, pipelines, and orchestration for large language models. Because these plain‑text files are the control surface for high‑impact AI work, they function as governance choke‑points (who edits, who has access, which repos are public) and as durable artifacts that shape reproducibility and liability. — If Markdown is the human‑legible control plane for frontier AI, then standards, access controls, and audit rules for those files are now consequential public‑policy choices about transparency, safety, and who gets to direct powerful systems.