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Show HN: Kiso, an open-source publishing engine for Open Knowledge Format

Oak Investment released Kiso, an open-source publishing engine that converts Open Knowledge Format bundles into static websites for both human readers and AI agents. The tool generates HTML pages, llms.txt, and sitemap.xml from structured Markdown files, and includes a GitHub Action for automated deployment.

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Show HN: Kiso, an open-source publishing engine for Open Knowledge Format
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Kiso is a publishing engine that turns Open Knowledge Format (OKF) bundles into static websites for humans and AI agents.

First principle

OKF is the source of truth. #

Structured Markdown

Knowledge remains easy to edit, review, diff, and version in Git.

Explicit metadata

Pages keep enough context to be validated, linked, and rendered consistently.

Agent friendly

Generated HTML keeps clear links back to the original Markdown files.

Command

What build does #

The build

command generates a static website from an OKF bundle, including the original Markdown files, generated HTML pages, llms.txt, and sitemap.xml.

source Any OKF bundle directory like examples/kb-google-example
destination public or any static directory

GitHub Action

Use in Github CI #

You can use Kiso in a GitHub Action to automatically build and publish your OKF bundle to GitHub Pages or any other static hosting service.

 - name: Build with Kiso
   uses: oak-invest/kiso/applications/kiso-cli-action@v0.1.2
   with:
    command: build
    source: examples/kb-google-example
    destination: website/examples/kb-google-example-latest

Browse

Readers get a structured static website with navigation and readable pages.

Inspect

Each page can link back to its Markdown source for review and reuse.

Publish

The result is plain static output that can be hosted locally or over HTTP.

Try Kiso on the Google Analytics sample knowledge base. #

The example shows how an OKF bundle becomes a navigable site for Humans and AI agents.

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