How the Open Knowledge Format can improve data sharing | Google Cloud Blog

"we’re introducing the Open Knowledge Format (OKF), an open specification that formalizes the LLM-wiki pattern into a portable, interoperable format. This is a vendor-neutral, agent- and human-friendly standard for representing the metadata, context, and curated knowledge that modern AI systems need.

As published, OKF v0.1 represents knowledge as a directory of markdown files with YAML frontmatter, with a small set of agreed-upon conventions that let wikis written by different producers be consumed by different agents without translation....

The answer to this problem isn’t another knowledge service. You need a format, a way to represent knowledge that:

• Anyone can produce, without an SDK

• Anyone can consume, without an integration

• Survives moving between systems, organizations, and tools

• Lives in version control alongside the code it describes

• Is readable by humans and parseable by agents: the same file, no translation layer

By design, OKF is that format."