Open Knowledge Format

Open Knowledge Format is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by inkeep in open-knowledge.

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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/inkeep/open-knowledge/tree/main/packages/server/assets/skills/packs/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/inkeep/open-knowledge.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: packages/server/assets/skills/packs/okf/SKILL.md in inkeep/open-knowledge
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/okf
Collection: One of 18 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Open Knowledge Format does

Open Knowledge Format provides guidance for creating, reading, reviewing, and maintaining OKF v0.2 bundles. Use it when responding to OpenKnowledge okf plugin warnings or when choosing types, provenance, links, indexes, or logs.

Open Knowledge Format is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Open Knowledge Format comes from a repository tagged 2nd-brain, agent-skills, claude, codex and company-brain.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Open Knowledge Format (OKF)

OKF v0.2 is a portable format for agent-readable knowledge: Markdown files, YAML frontmatter, and standard links. The /open-knowledge skill governs tool use; this skill covers OKF semantics.

Core rules

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

Commands Open Knowledge Format provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/open-knowledge

Frequently asked about Open Knowledge Format

What else does inkeep publish alongside Open Knowledge Format?
Open Knowledge Format is one of 18 skills that DirSkills catalogs from inkeep/open-knowledge, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Codebase Wiki, Consolidate Notes and Frame a Proposal. 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 inkeep in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the inkeep/open-knowledge page.
How does Open Knowledge Format compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Open Knowledge Format ranks #606 by stars among the 2451 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.