Keep your knowledge in Markdown. Open Knowledge makes it easy to validate, search, and share.

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Write it once. Keep it useful.

Open Knowledge keeps the source simple and the workflow familiar, from the first Markdown file to the context an agent retrieves.

Three-dimensional floppy disk labeled .md

Write

Use plain Markdown and YAML in the Git workflow you already know.

Three-dimensional validation check mark

Verify

Catch structural problems before they reach people or agents .

Own the context

Store knowledge in files you can inspect, version, and reuse. Give people and agents the same context across tools.

Use plain files

Store the source in Markdown and keep its history in Git .

Change tools without starting over

Your knowledge stays readable, portable, and under your control with OKF v0.2.

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Go from installation to a useful, validated knowledge base in a few practical steps.

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The idea behind Open Knowledge

Agents do their best work when the context around a task is precise, concrete, and close to the source. I found myself creating more and more focused knowledge bases to give them that context: project documentation, changelogs, research notes, and records of the decisions behind the work.

Each knowledge base had a different purpose, but the same work kept returning. The files needed a clear structure. Links and metadata needed to be checked. People needed a way to browse the content, and agents needed a dependable way to retrieve it. The tooling I wanted around those plain files did not exist as one coherent system.

That recurring gap became Open Knowledge. It is a way to create, validate, browse, and share focused knowledge bases without hiding their source inside another product. The knowledge stays in Markdown and YAML, follows the Git workflow you already know, and remains useful to both people and agents as the work changes.

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Your knowledge stays yours

Open source. Git-native. Built on Open Knowledge Format v0.2.

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