← all concepts

Open Knowledge Format

An open, vendor-neutral format for packaging the knowledge AI systems need, as plain markdown files any model or agent can read.

Listen

The Open Knowledge Format, or OKF, is a Google Cloud standard for packaging machine-readable knowledge. It organizes information into a directory of markdown files, using YAML frontmatter.

Within this system, each file represents a single concept, and its path serves as its unique identity. By using ordinary markdown links, the entire directory is transformed into a connected graph.

Publishing content as an OKF bundle allows AI models and agents to read the data directly, making the information highly visible and accessible to artificial intelligence.

The Open Knowledge Format (OKF) is a Google Cloud standard for packaging machine-readable knowledge as a directory of markdown files with YAML frontmatter. Each file is one concept, its path is its identity, and ordinary markdown links turn the directory into a graph.

This site publishes itself as an OKF bundle so models and agents can read it directly.

Full article: The Open Knowledge Format (OKF). This site's bundle: /okf/index.md. Related: AI Visibility.

Concept

Mentioned in