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What is OKF Google Cloud's Open Knowledge Format (OKF v0.1) was released on 12 June 2026 by Google Cloud and is essentially a formalisation of something developers and SEOs have been doing informally for a while — maintaining markdown knowledge bases. If you've used llms.txt, agents.md, or Obsidian-style vaults, then the architecture should already be familiar. OKF just pins down the small set of conventions needed to make those patterns interoperable between different producers and consumers. The format itself is minimal — a directory of markdown files with YAML frontmatter carrying six fields: type, title, description, resource, tags, and timestamp. Only type is mandatory but these six I would consider as required. No SDK, no runtime, no proprietary lock-in. If you can serve static files you can publish OKF, which is why 11ty is such a natural fit for this. The problem it's solving is the fragmentation of organisational knowledge across wikis, catalogs, code comments, and shared…

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