Glossary

Agent Knowledge

The proposed standard for packaging source-grounded knowledge for AI agents.

Knowledge pack

A directory containing KNOWLEDGE.md and optional sources, wiki pages, compiled views, indexes, runs, schemas, evals, and assets.

Agent Skill

A procedural package that tells an agent how to perform a task. Agent Skills use SKILL.md.

Source

Raw evidence such as documents, transcripts, pages, PDFs, or notes.

Wiki

Maintained structured knowledge compiled from sources. wiki/ is the pack's primary compiled artifact.

Compiled view

A concise runtime-ready file derived from wiki/, such as compiled/facts.md or compiled/boundaries.md. It is a runtime optimization artifact, not an untraceable independent fact source.

Compilation

The maintenance process that incrementally turns sources/ into wiki/, compiled/, and indexes/, with inputs, outputs, diagnostics, and review requirements recorded in runs/.

Source map

A mapping from a claim, page, or runtime view back to raw source anchors. It explains where a fact came from and which artifacts it was compiled into.

Index

A rebuildable search artifact such as full-text, vector, or graph index.

Context resolver

A client component that selects which pack files or excerpts enter the model context.

Grounding

The ability to trace claims back to source material.