Open knowledge infrastructure

Your knowledge.
Ordered, governed,
and ready to trust.

OKF-CM is a dependency-free, cross-platform toolkit that transforms an existing folder tree into a governed Ordered Knowledge Forest—with full-text search across Markdown, PDF, Office documents, and source code.

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  • Open source
  • Zero runtime dependencies
  • Cross-platform
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The knowledge problem

Folders hold your work.
OKF-CM gives it meaning.

Organizations already have valuable knowledge—in documents, PDFs, source trees, research folders, and shared drives. What is missing is a consistent way to understand ownership, relationships, integrity, and readiness.

OKF-CM adds a lightweight governance layer directly alongside that content. Your folders remain yours. The context becomes explicit, searchable, and verifiable.

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Non-destructive

Inventories what exists and creates only missing manifests. Payload files are never overwritten.

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Human-governed

Generated records begin as drafts. People remain the authority for meaning, ownership, and approval.

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Verifiable

Deterministic hashes, immutable baselines, and drift detection turn change into reviewable evidence.

A safe path to structure

From folder tree to
knowledge forest.

Five deliberate steps make scattered content legible—without demanding a migration or a new content platform.

  1. 01
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    Scan

    Read registered bundle folders and build a fast local FTS5 search index without modifying your files.

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    Browse

    Explore folder trees, view metadata, and drag-and-drop new documents via the browser workbench.

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    Ingest

    Extract searchable content from PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, CSV, JSON, YAML, and code files.

  4. 04
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    Enrich

    Add human context, stewardship, lifecycle state, and explicit typed relationships.

  5. 05
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    Validate

    Track structural baselines, monitor drift, and verify repository integrity over time.

Built for real repositories

Governance that
meets you where you are.

Launch one self-contained executable to run the local web app, search your knowledge, and govern your bundles.

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Local browser workbench

Launch OKF-CM to automatically open an embedded web application. Browse bundles, search documents, manage relationships, and track baselines with zero external server dependencies.

./okf-cm
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Multi-format document search

Full-text BM25 search across Markdown, PDF (pure Go ToUnicode & TJ extraction), Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and source code.

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Stable identities

Each Knowledge Object receives a durable ID independent of its folder name or path.

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Baselines & drift

Capture known-good structure, compare live content, and make change visible.

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Explicit relationships

Connect objects with inspectable, typed references (`depends_on`, `implements`, `supersedes`, etc.).

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Portable by design

One single Go binary for Windows, macOS, and Linux—with embedded SQLite and browser UI.

Forest of knowledge

Structure what you know.
Trust what you share.

Open source knowledge governance for teams that value clarity, stewardship, and verifiable change.

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