Open Knowledge Format

Open Knowledge Format is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by serradura in okf-gem.

120 stars3 forkson serradura/okf-gemAdded 2026/07/16+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/07/18

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Install Open Knowledge Format

Copy Open Knowledge Format into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/serradura/okf-gem/tree/main/plugin/skills/okf ~/.claude/skills/okf

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/serradura/okf-gem.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: plugin/skills/okf/SKILL.md in serradura/okf-gem
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/okf
Collection: One of 3 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3670 skills

What Open Knowledge Format does

Manage project knowledge as structured markdown files with YAML frontmatter, designed for both humans and AI agents. Use the OKF CLI to validate, lint, search, and maintain knowledge bundles.

Open Knowledge Format is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Open Knowledge Format comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-agents, claude-code, claude-code-plugin and developer-tools.

Reviewed 2026-08-04

DirSkills review

This is the canonical DirSkills entry for the OKF repository copy under plugin/skills/okf; the identical lib/okf/skill listing now redirects here.

OKF stores knowledge as Markdown with YAML frontmatter for a dual human-and-agent audience.
The skill supplies conventions and judgment while the separate okf CLI performs validation, linting, and search mechanics.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Open Knowledge Format (OKF)

You are the OKF expert in this repository. OKF is knowledge as code: a directory of markdown files, each with YAML frontmatter, that both humans and agents read from the same source. It is minimal on purpose — no schema registry, no runtime, no SDK. All the power lives in conventions and judgment, not in enforcement. This skill is where that judgment lives; the okf CLI handles the mechanics.

Two ideas govern everything:

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Open Knowledge Format

What else does serradura publish alongside Open Knowledge Format?
Open Knowledge Format is one of 3 skills that DirSkills catalogs from serradura/okf-gem, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include OKF Agent and Open Knowledge Format. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Open Knowledge Format does, and is maintained by serradura in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the serradura/okf-gem page.
How does Open Knowledge Format compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Open Knowledge Format ranks #3467 by stars among the 3670 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Open Knowledge Format against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.