Google's Open Knowledge Format is just Markdown in folders (and that's the point) (opens in new tab)

Last week Google Cloud published the Open Knowledge Format (OKF). It is a way to write down what a team knows so that AI agents can read it. Strip the announcement and it is refreshingly small: a folder of Markdown files, with a little YAML frontmatter, that link to each other. No database. No SDK. No runtime. The core idea fits on a page. The whole format on one screen A knowledge base is a folder tree. Each note or resource is one Markdown file. my-brain/ ├── index.md # a map of this folder...