OKF for Claude Code: structured, portable memory your agent (and team) can read

The problem: agents forget your project every session If you pair with a coding agent, you have lived this: a new session starts and the context is gone. The agent re-discovers your auth flow, re-guesses why a decision was made, re-reads the same files to rebuild a mental model you already explained yesterday. Project knowledge — the why behind your systems, the runbooks, the "don't touch this, here's the reason" — lives scattered across wikis, code comments, and people's heads. None of it travels with the code, and none of it survives a fresh context window. CLAUDE.md helps, but it's for standing instructions , and it gets loaded wholesale into every prompt. Auto-memory captures what an agent picked up, but it's implicit, per-agent, and not reviewed. A wiki is for humans and needs exporting. There's a gap: curated team knowledge that's structured, versioned with the code, and readable by any agent or person. What OKF is Open Knowledge Format is an open, vendor-neutral format (announced by the Google Cloud Data Cloud team in June 2026, Apache-2.0) that represents knowledge as a directory of markdown files with YAML frontmatter . That's the whole idea. No schema registry, no runtime, no SDK. If you can cat a file you can read it; if you can git clone a repo you can ship it. A bundle looks like this: .okf/ ├── index.md # progressive disclosure (root carries okf_version) ├── log.md # ISO-dated change history, newest first ├── services/auth-api.md # one concept = one file; path is its ID ├── datasets/orders-db.md ├── decisions/use-okf.md ├── runbooks/payment-failures.md └── metrics/checkout-conversion.md Each concept needs exactly one thing to be conformant: YAML frontmatter with a non-empty type . Everything else is optional. --- type : Service title : " Auth API" description : " Issues and verifies short-lived access tokens." resource : https://github.com/acme/auth tags : [ auth , platform ] timestamp : 2026-06-14T10:00:00Z --- # Endpoints | Method | Path | Descriptio