by Amit Shekhar · 26 July 2026
What is OKF (Open Knowledge Format)?
OKF (Open Knowledge Format). We will also see why the knowledge about our data stays scattered across many places, how OKF writes that knowledge down as a folder of plain markdown files which any AI agent or any tool can read, and where it fits along with MCP and Agent Skills in the real world.
Read on Outcome School ↗then come back to lock it in
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What this article covers
- The problem: our knowledge is scattered
- What is OKF?
- OKF = Open + Knowledge + Format
- What is inside an OKF bundle?
- The frontmatter and the one required field
- Cross-links turn files into a graph
- Why plain markdown files?
- How an agent actually uses it
- OKF, MCP, and Agent Skills
- What ships with OKF today
- Summary
The article lives on outcomeschool.com. Read it there, then come back: the tutor in the margin has read it and will answer questions, and the questions below check what stayed.