Google OKF: teaching AI agents about your company with markdown

AI agents are only as good as the context they get. OKF (Open Knowledge Format) is an open specification from Google Cloud, introduced in June 2026, for packaging that context.

The format

• A folder of markdown files, one file per concept: a table, a metric, an API or a runbook
• YAML frontmatter at the top of each file; only the type field is required
• Links between files form a knowledge graph that an AI can explore

Vendor-neutral

OKF isn't tied to Google. It's meant to work with any cloud, model or agent.

Tools to start with

Google released a BigQuery enrichment agent, an HTML graph visualizer and three sample bundles (GA4 e-commerce, Stack Overflow and Bitcoin data).

Early days

Version 0.1 is described as "a starting point, not a finished standard", so expect changes. Still, plain markdown is a very easy place to begin.