Google Cloud Introduces Open Knowledge Format (OKF): A Vendor-Neutral Markdown Spec for Giving AI Agents Curated Context
Foundation models keep getting stronger, yet they still stall on the same thing: context. A model can write code or analyze a dataset, but only with the right internal knowledge. That knowledge includes table schemas, metric definitions, runbooks, join paths and it lives scattered across catalogs, wikis, and a few senior engineers’ heads. Google Cloud introduced the Open Knowledge Format (OKF), an open specification that formalizes the LLM-wiki pattern into a portable, interoperable fo
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