Documentation
Understand Knowledge Islands, then put it to work.
12 sections take you from first setup through skills, ways of working, knowledge and standards to the CLI, harness and supporting guidance. Each card shows its page count and starting point. Begin at Get Started, or choose the subject you need.
1 page
Get Started
Stand up your own island: the harness, the repositories, and the first thing worth doing with them.
Start at Get Started →
4 pages
Skills
What a skill is, how the sixty-four fit together, which one serves which outcome.
Start at What a skill is →
7 pages
Working with agents
A plain-English course in how work is held, handed to agents, reviewed and kept safe, one feature at a time.
Start at The work model →
10 pages
Ways of working
How work is defined, held, moved, delegated, traded, tended and finished.
Start at The work model →
4 pages
Knowledge
How an island keeps, queries, acquires and hands over knowledge.
Start at Knowledge bases →
5 pages
Standards
What every repository, record, codebase, document and diagram conforms to.
Start at Repository standards →
12 pages
The ki CLI
The commands that operate installations, repositories, territory, work and knowledge, and when to use them.
Start at Install and get started →
7 pages
The Agentic Harness
How to install, govern and tune the harness, use its skills and maintain the agent environment.
Start at How the harness works →
14 pages
Prompting
Model-specific prompting guidance for the frontier and open-weight models the ecosystem works with.
Start at Prompting guides →
6 pages
Optional Tools
The tools on a reader's own machine that make working this way easier, and which are genuinely optional.
Start at Optional tools →
8 pages
Stoa
The web components the sites share, each shown live: themes and modes, the page frame, search, dates and content.
Start at Stoa →
1 page
Contribute
How an island proposes an improvement to the shared model through the Contribution Process.
Start at Contribute →
The catalogue
Every public project, and what it is the authority for.
The sections above answer how do I. This catalogue answers what is this: every repository in the ecosystem, with what it owns and where it lives. Each card opens the project's own page; Projects holds the same catalogue grouped by kind, with a word on each group.
ki-principal
The canonical record of the Knowledge Islands philosophy and conceptual model.
source
ki-agentic-harness
The canonical source of reusable agentic capabilities and compatible harnesses.
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ki-specifications
The canonical source of normative, portable Knowledge Islands contracts.
source
ki
The Knowledge Islands command-line interface.
v0.13.0 · preview
mgit
Run commands across many Git repositories at once.
v0.18.0 · preview
git-almanac
Inspect one local Git repository's calendars, authors and reports offline.
v0.2.0 · preview
rig
A declarative description manager for a person's working setup.
v0.7.0 · preview
techne
Inspect and operate the Techne Harness from a terminal.
v0.2.0 · experimental
mcp-ki-kb-fs
Give an agent scoped read and write access to local knowledge-base directories.
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mcp-git-audit
Audit a whole tree of Git repositories, read-only until an operator says otherwise.
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mcp-housekeeping-claude
Audit and safely clean the filesystem state Claude applications accumulate.
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mcp-gsuite
Connect an agent to Google Workspace, with outbound mail confined to drafts.
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mcp-m365
Connect an agent to Outlook and OneDrive through the Microsoft Graph API.
source
ki-techne-harness
A runnable personal-controller execution fabric for the ecosystem.
source
homebrew-tap
The Homebrew tap that packages the released Knowledge Islands command-line tools.
published
packages-stoa
Stoa: web components and styles that static sites share, rendered at build time.
source
ki-website
The public publication layer — this site.
published · /
What is not here
The catalogue is a directory, not a section.
The catalogue below the sections, and Projects, list every repository in the ecosystem with what it owns and where it lives. They answer what is this. The sections above answer how do I, which is a different question with a different home: nothing in the catalogue is a guide, and no guide lives under a project.