google just turned karpathy's llm-wiki gist into a spec today: the open knowledge format. markdown files, one required field.
the format question is now settled. the hard part still isn't.
what it changes:
- portability. a bundle is a tarball or a git repo. it moves between orgs and tools with no translation layer.
- version control. knowledge lives beside the code it describes, with diffs and history for free.
- decoupling. a human writes the bundle, an agent reads it, with no shared tooling between them.
- no SDK, no account. you read and write plain markdown.
what it leaves to you:
- contradiction resolution. a new source fights an old claim. OKF stores both and never says which wins.
- staleness. timestamp is a field. retiring a dead fact is a call the format won't make.
- merge policy. which page a fact lands on, what gets forked or overwritten. the producer agent owns it.
- retrieval. index.md holds for a few hundred pages. past that you need hybrid search and a reranker.
OKF standardized the filing cabinet. the librarian is still yours to build.