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Using OKF with Knowledge Catalog to serve context for agents

We continue to iterate on the Open Knowledge Format (OKF), an open specification that formalizes the LLM-wiki pattern into a portable, interoperable format. How can you share and govern access to an OKF bundle across an organization?

Using OKF with Knowledge Catalog to serve context for agents

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We continue to iterate on the Open Knowledge Format (OKF), an open specification that formalizes the LLM-wiki pattern into a portable, interoperable format.

A git repo per bundle is portable, but it is not searchable alongside the data it describes, it cannot be secured and governed using the same organizational identity and compliance policies, and it does not...

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We continue to iterate on the Open Knowledge Format (OKF), an open specification that formalizes the LLM-wiki pattern into a portable, interoperable format. How can you share and govern access to an OKF bundle across an organization? OKF v0.1 established a portable format for the context agents need: markdown files with YAML frontmatter, one required field, and five conventions.

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  • Then, OKF v0.2 added the trust signals (provenance, verification, freshness, attestation) that a machine-authored bundle requires to be relied on, allowing a team to publish a trustworthy bundle for its own...
  • However, what OKF does not answer is how teams share their bundles across an organization.
  • A git repo per bundle is portable, but it is not searchable alongside the data it describes, it cannot be secured and governed using the same organizational identity and compliance policies, and it does not...
  • Every downstream agent must know where each bundle resides, and that does not scale beyond a small number of bundles.
  • To scale an OKF bundle across an organization, you can use Knowledge Catalog, Google Cloud's context engine for agents.

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