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+## ✍️ Markdown
+
+Astro comes with out-of-the-box Markdown support powered by the expansive [**remark**](https://github.com/remarkjs/remark) ecosystem.
+
+## Remark Plugins
+
+**This is the first draft of Markdown support!** While we plan to support user-provided `remark` plugins soon, our hope is that you won't need `remark` plugins at all!
+
+In addition to [custom components inside the `<Markdown>` component](#markdown-component), Astro comes with [GitHub-flavored Markdown](https://github.github.com/gfm/) support, [Footnotes](https://github.com/remarkjs/remark-footnotes) syntax, [Smartypants](https://github.com/silvenon/remark-smartypants), and syntax highlighting via [Prism](https://prismjs.com/) pre-enabled. These features are likely to be configurable in the future.
+
+### Markdown Pages
+
+Astro treats any `.md` files inside of the `/src/pages` directory as pages. These pages are processed as plain Markdown files and do not support components. If you're looking to embed rich components in your Markdown, take a look at the [Markdown Component](#markdown-component) section.
+
+#### `layout`
+
+The only special Frontmatter key is `layout`, which defines the relative path to a `.astro` component which should wrap your Markdown content.
+
+`src/pages/index.md`
+```md
+---
+layout: ../layouts/main.astro
+---
+
+# Hello world!
+```
+
+Layout files are normal `.astro` components. Any Frontmatter defined in your `.md` page will be exposed to the Layout component as the `content` prop. `content` also has an `astro` key which holds special metadata about your file, like the complete Markdown `source` and a `headings` object.
+
+The rendered Markdown content is placed into the default `<slot />` element.
+
+`src/layouts/main.astro`
+```jsx
+---
+export let content;
+---
+
+<html>
+  <head>
+    <title>{content.title}</title>
+  </head>
+
+  <body>
+    <slot/>
+  </body>
+</html>
+```
+
+### Markdown Component
+
+Similar to tools like [MDX](https://mdxjs.com/) or [MDsveX](https://github.com/pngwn/MDsveX), Astro makes it straightforward to embed rich, interactive components inside of your Markdown content. The `<Markdown>` component is statically rendered, so it does not add any runtime overhead.
+
+Astro exposes a special `Markdown` component for `.astro` files which enables markdown syntax for its children **recursively**. Within the `Markdown` component you may also use plain HTML or any other type of component that is supported by Astro.
+
+```jsx
+---
+// For now, this import _must_ be named "Markdown" and _must not_ be wrapped with a custom component
+// We're working on easing these restrictions!
+import Markdown from 'astro/components/Markdown.astro';
+import Layout from '../layouts/main.astro';
+import MyFancyCodePreview from '../components/MyFancyCodePreview.tsx';
+
+const expressions = 'Lorem ipsum';
+---
+
+<Layout>
+  <Markdown>
+    # Hello world!
+
+    **Everything** supported in a `.md` file is also supported here!
+
+    There is _zero_ runtime overhead.
+
+    In addition, Astro supports:
+    - Astro {expressions}
+    - Automatic indentation normalization
+    - Automatic escaping of expressions inside code blocks
+
+    ```jsx
+      // This content is not transformed!
+      const object = { someOtherValue };
+    ```
+
+    - Rich component support like any `.astro` file!
+    - Recursive Markdown support (Component children are also processed as Markdown)
+
+    <MyFancyCodePreview:visible>
+      ```jsx
+      const object = { someOtherValue };
+      ```
+    </MyFancyCodePreview:visible>
+  </Markdown>
+</Layout>
+```
+
+### Remote Markdown
+
+If you have Markdown in a remote source, you may pass it directly to the Markdown component. For example, the example below fetches the README from Snowpack's GitHub repository and renders it as HTML.
+
+```jsx
+---
+import Markdown from 'astro/components/Markdown.astro';
+
+const content = await fetch('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/snowpackjs/snowpack/main/README.md').then(res => res.text());
+---
+
+<Layout>
+  <Markdown>{content}</Markdown>
+</Layout>
+```
+
+### Security FAQs
+
+**Aren't there security concerns to rendering remote markdown directly to HTML?** 
+
+Yes! Just like with regular HTML, improper use the `<Markdown>` component can open you up to a [cross-site scripting (XSS)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting) attack. If you are rendering untrusted content, be sure to _santize your content **before** rendering it_.
+
+**Why not use a prop like React's `dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: content }}`?**
+
+Rendering a string of HTML (or Markdown) is an extremely common use case when rendering a static site and you probably don't need the extra hoops to jump through. Rendering untrusted content is always dangerous! Be sure to _santize your content **before** rendering it_.