Open Knowledge CLI

Open source

What the maker publishes

Agent harnesses

Agent workflows and jobs support Codex, Claude Code, and OpenCode. source

Publishing audience

both source

Installation platforms

The shell installer supports macOS and Linux on amd64 and arm64; npm supports release platforms, including Windows assets when available. source

Integrations

The site says the product is ready for Codex, Claude, Cursor, or any local agent. source

MCP

The MCP server is read-only and lets clients list and read files, search, run explicit semantic queries, and validate a bundle. source

Privacy

CLI telemetry is enabled by default, and users can disable it with the --no-telemetry option. source

Publishing

The CLI can publish configured viewer or MCP outputs from checked knowledge. source

Purpose

Open Knowledge creates, validates, searches, and shares Markdown knowledge bases for people and AI agents. source

Search

Search runs locally and deterministically without calling an LLM or embedding service. source

Security

The installer verifies release archive SHA-256 checksums and supports verification of GitHub or Sigstore attestations. source

Setup

The CLI can create or adopt a managed knowledge base from repository Markdown. source

Source format

Knowledge is stored in plain Markdown and YAML and follows a Git workflow. source

Telemetry detail

The product telemetry page says collected CLI telemetry is bounded and covers installation, activation, useful command activity, daily activity, and sanitized errors. source

Use case

The maker describes Open Knowledge as tooling to create and operate focused knowledge bases that remain useful to people and agents. source

Viewer

The CLI starts a local web viewer for browsing a knowledge base. source

Checked against the maker's pages on 5 Oct 2026.