diff --git a/app/client/platforms/openai.ts b/app/client/platforms/openai.ts
index 4cad6bf94..51ae71ea6 100644
--- a/app/client/platforms/openai.ts
+++ b/app/client/platforms/openai.ts
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ export interface OpenAIListModelResponse {
 
 export interface RequestPayload {
   messages: {
-    role: "system" | "user" | "assistant";
+    role: "developer" | "system" | "user" | "assistant";
     content: string | MultimodalContent[];
   }[];
   stream?: boolean;
@@ -238,8 +238,16 @@ export class ChatGPTApi implements LLMApi {
         // Please do not ask me why not send max_tokens, no reason, this param is just shit, I dont want to explain anymore.
       };
 
-      // O1 使用 max_completion_tokens 控制token数 (https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/reasoning#controlling-costs)
       if (isO1OrO3) {
+        // by default the o1/o3 models will not attempt to produce output that includes markdown formatting
+        // manually add "Formatting re-enabled" developer message to encourage markdown inclusion in model responses
+        // (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/openai/how-to/reasoning?tabs=python-secure#markdown-output)
+        requestPayload["messages"].unshift({
+          role: "developer",
+          content: "Formatting re-enabled",
+        });
+
+        // o1/o3 uses max_completion_tokens to control the number of tokens (https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/reasoning#controlling-costs)
         requestPayload["max_completion_tokens"] = modelConfig.max_tokens;
       }