diff --git a/pkg/datastore/textsplitter/markdown_basic/markdown_basic.go b/pkg/datastore/textsplitter/markdown_basic/markdown_basic.go
index e978ff46..e12f23f1 100644
--- a/pkg/datastore/textsplitter/markdown_basic/markdown_basic.go
+++ b/pkg/datastore/textsplitter/markdown_basic/markdown_basic.go
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 package markdown_basic
 
 import (
-	lcgosplitter "github.com/tmc/langchaingo/textsplitter"
 	"strings"
 	"unicode/utf8"
+
+	vs "github.com/gptscript-ai/knowledge/pkg/vectorstore/types"
+	lcgosplitter "github.com/tmc/langchaingo/textsplitter"
 )
 
 // NewMarkdownTextSplitter creates a new Markdown text splitter.
@@ -41,6 +43,25 @@ type MarkdownTextSplitter struct {
 	IgnoreHeadingOnly bool
 }
 
+func (sp MarkdownTextSplitter) SplitDocuments(docs []vs.Document) ([]vs.Document, error) {
+	var newDocs []vs.Document
+	for _, doc := range docs {
+		chunks, err := sp.SplitText(doc.Content)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+
+		for _, chunk := range chunks {
+			newDocs = append(newDocs, vs.Document{
+				Content:  chunk,
+				Metadata: doc.Metadata,
+			})
+		}
+	}
+
+	return newDocs, nil
+}
+
 // SplitText splits a text into multiple text.
 func (sp MarkdownTextSplitter) SplitText(text string) ([]string, error) {
 	// Parse markdown line-by-line
diff --git a/pkg/datastore/textsplitter/markdown_basic/options.go b/pkg/datastore/textsplitter/markdown_basic/options.go
index 186bd4bd..dd7b99ce 100644
--- a/pkg/datastore/textsplitter/markdown_basic/options.go
+++ b/pkg/datastore/textsplitter/markdown_basic/options.go
@@ -36,6 +36,24 @@ func DefaultOptions() Options {
 // Option is a function that can be used to set options for a text splitter.
 type Option func(*Options)
 
+func WithConfig(cfg MarkdownTextSplitter) Option {
+	return func(o *Options) {
+		if cfg.ChunkSize != 0 {
+			o.ChunkSize = cfg.ChunkSize
+		}
+		if cfg.ChunkOverlap != 0 {
+			o.ChunkOverlap = cfg.ChunkOverlap
+		}
+		if cfg.SecondSplitter != nil {
+			o.SecondSplitter = cfg.SecondSplitter
+		}
+		if cfg.MaxHeadingLevel != 0 {
+			o.MaxHeadingLevel = cfg.MaxHeadingLevel
+		}
+		o.IgnoreHeadingOnly = cfg.IgnoreHeadingOnly
+	}
+}
+
 // WithChunkSize sets the chunk size for a text splitter.
 func WithChunkSize(chunkSize int) Option {
 	return func(o *Options) {
diff --git a/pkg/datastore/textsplitter/textsplitter.go b/pkg/datastore/textsplitter/textsplitter.go
index 4d417370..b287051e 100644
--- a/pkg/datastore/textsplitter/textsplitter.go
+++ b/pkg/datastore/textsplitter/textsplitter.go
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import (
 
 	"dario.cat/mergo"
 	"github.com/gptscript-ai/knowledge/pkg/datastore/defaults"
+	mdbasic "github.com/gptscript-ai/knowledge/pkg/datastore/textsplitter/markdown_basic"
 	dstypes "github.com/gptscript-ai/knowledge/pkg/datastore/types"
 	vs "github.com/gptscript-ai/knowledge/pkg/vectorstore/types"
 	"github.com/mitchellh/mapstructure"
@@ -57,6 +58,8 @@ func GetTextSplitterConfig(name string) (any, error) {
 	switch name {
 	case "text", "markdown":
 		return TextSplitterOpts{}, nil
+	case "markdown_basic":
+		return mdbasic.MarkdownTextSplitter{}, nil
 	default:
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("unknown text splitter %q", name)
 	}
@@ -94,6 +97,19 @@ func GetTextSplitter(name string, config any) (dstypes.TextSplitter, error) {
 		}
 		slog.Debug("MarkdownSplitter", "config", cfg)
 		return FromLangchain(NewLcgoMarkdownSplitter(cfg)), nil
+	case "markdown_basic":
+		cfg := mdbasic.MarkdownTextSplitter{}
+		if config != nil {
+			var customCfg mdbasic.MarkdownTextSplitter
+			if err := mapstructure.Decode(config, &customCfg); err != nil {
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to decode markdown basic splitter configuration: %w", err)
+			}
+			if err := mergo.Merge(&customCfg, cfg); err != nil {
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to merge markdown basic splitter configuration: %w", err)
+			}
+			cfg = customCfg
+		}
+		return mdbasic.NewMarkdownTextSplitter(mdbasic.WithConfig(cfg)), nil
 	default:
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("unknown text splitter %q", name)
 	}
diff --git a/pkg/flows/config/blueprints/default.yaml b/pkg/flows/config/blueprints/default.yaml
index a3538cad..65c8aedc 100644
--- a/pkg/flows/config/blueprints/default.yaml
+++ b/pkg/flows/config/blueprints/default.yaml
@@ -4,9 +4,19 @@ flows:
     globals:
       ingestion:
         textsplitter:
-          chunkSize: 800
-          chunkOverlap: 400
+          chunkSize: 1024
+          chunkOverlap: 256
     ingestion:
+      - filetypes: [".md"]
+        documentloader:
+          name: plaintext
+        textsplitter:
+          name: markdown_basic
+          options:
+            maxHeadingLevel: 2
+            ignoreHeadingOnly: true
+        transformers:
+          - name: filter_markdown_docs_no_content
       - filetypes: ["*"]
     retrieval:
       retriever: