okf

name	okf
description	Author and maintain the OKF knowledge base in docs/okf — living repo reference articles that ZAM cards cite as learning sources. Use whenever the user invokes `$okf`, asks to document current repo behavior as reference knowledge, when a code change alters behavior an OKF article describes, or when a learning token about this repo needs a source_link.
user-invocable	true

OKF — Repo Knowledge Base Authoring

In Codex, invoke this workflow as $okf or select okf through /skills. Codex does not expose repository skills as custom /okf slash commands.

docs/okf/ is an Open Knowledge Format v0.1 bundle: the living, current-truth reference for this repository. Learners' ZAM cards cite these articles as source_link, so a stale or wrong article actively teaches wrong knowledge. Treat every edit with release-level care. Contract: ADR 2026-07-17.

The one hard rule

Never edit files in docs/okf/ by hand. The only sanctioned write path is the zam_okf_upsert MCP tool (server: zam mcp): it validates the frontmatter contract, regenerates index.md, and appends the log.md entry. zam_okf_catalog lists articles plus conformance problems; zam_okf_read returns one article. CI enforces bundle conformance (tests/cli/okf-conformance.test.ts).

ADR vs OKF

OKF states what is true today; ADRs record why it was decided. Never restate decision rationale in an article — any sentence shaped like "we chose X because…" belongs in an ADR. Reference ADRs (and code paths) in the article's # Citations section instead. Every article must have one.

Article contract

• File name: kebab-case *.md, flat (no subdirectories). Names are permanent IDs — learners' stored source links break on rename, so never rename; supersede with a new article and a log.md note instead.
• Frontmatter (the validated subset — scalars and block string lists only, no nested maps):
  • type (required): short kind, e.g. architecture, algorithm, data-model, protocol — reuse existing types before inventing one
  • description (required here): one sentence; it becomes the index line
  • title, tags (at least one), timestamp (ISO 8601)
  • resource: the canonical URL https://github.com/zam-os/zam/blob/main/docs/okf/<file> — exactly this shape, CI-pinned
• Body: current truth in plain prose, links to related articles as ordinary markdown links, then # Citations with ADRs and code paths. English only.

Staleness duty

If a PR changes behavior that an OKF article describes, update the article via zam_okf_upsert in the same PR. Check zam_okf_catalog when touching kernel scheduling, the token/card model, prerequisite blocking, the bridge protocol, or MCP surfaces.

Articles as learning sources

When creating ZAM tokens about this repo (e.g. via zam_add_token), set the token's source_link to the article's resource URL. The article — not the chat — is the durable source a learner returns to.

Importing an article as learning content (ADR 2026-07-18)

When the user wants to LEARN an article ("import this as learning content", the visualizer's import button, or any request that ends in zam_okf_import), you do the decomposition — it is a judgment task, never mechanical.

"Import this okf" / "the currently focused article" / "the open article": resolve which article is meant via zam_okf_focused — the visualizer panel records what its reader shows. Name the resolved article in your reply (and double-check with the user if updatedAt looks stale) before decomposing. Then:

1. Read the FULL article (zam_okf_read) before proposing anything.
2. Extract the concepts a practitioner must produce from memory — recall-speed knowledge. Facts one would reasonably look up stay in the article; do not tokenize structure (headings are not concepts).
3. One atomic concept per token; judge a Bloom level (1–5), a domain (reuse existing domains where they fit), and a concise display title per token — titles label the token's node in the Learning Graph; an untitled token shows its de-kebabed slug there.
4. Arrange a prerequisite DAG from foundational to dependent.
5. Check existing tokens first (zam_find_tokens); link them as prerequisites instead of duplicating them.
6. Record once, atomically, with zam_okf_import — every token gets a card for the importing user, and each token's source_link anchors back into the article. Multiple tokens are the expected outcome for a real article; a single token usually means under-decomposition.

Re-import after the article changed: classify each token — new (add), update (content refreshed, learning state kept), replace (the concept changed, learning state resets to the beginning). Previously imported tokens you do not confirm move to maintenance (kept, unscheduled, awaiting repair) — never deleted.