Signed OKF – Provenance for Google's Open Knowledge Format

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Signed OKF

A verifiable trust layer for Google's Open Knowledge Format (OKF).

OKF makes the knowledge an AI agent needs portable - an open, vendor-neutral markdown format. But its metadata stops at a timestamp. It has no provenance, no signatures, no verification. So a consumer of an OKF bundle cannot answer two questions before an agent acts on it:

Did this come from who it claims to?

Has any of it been altered since?

Signed OKF adds exactly that, and nothing else. It hashes every file in a bundle, wraps the hashes plus a provenance envelope in a manifest, and Ed25519-signs it. Anyone can re-check it with the verifier and the issuer's public key - trust the math, not the issuer.

Format makes knowledge portable. Provenance makes it trustworthy.

It is additive and spec-compliant . OKF v0.1 explicitly says producers "MAY include any additional keys" and consumers "SHOULD NOT reject documents with unrecognized fields." Signed OKF only adds optional frontmatter keys and one file (okf.manifest.json, which is not one of OKF's reserved names). Drop the manifest and you have a plain OKF bundle again. No fork, no proprietary account, no SDK.

Quickstart

Requires Python 3.8+ and cryptography (pip install cryptography).

INVALID"># 1. create a keypair (issuer.key is secret; issuer.pub.json is publishable)<br>python sign_okf.py keygen

# 2. sign an OKF bundle<br>python sign_okf.py sign examples/okf-bundle --issuer acme.example --source "ACME Data Warehouse"

# 3. verify it (re-hashes files + checks the signature against the public key)<br>python verify_okf.py examples/okf-bundle --jwks issuer.pub.json<br># VALID: 2 files intact, signature verified

# tamper with any file or the manifest, then re-run step 3 -> INVALID

The verifier (verify_okf.py) depends only on cryptography and can point --jwks at a local key file or a public URL (e.g. an issuer that publishes a JWKS at /.well-known/keys).

What it proves, and what it does not

Proves: every file existed in this exact form when signed, and the bundle was signed by the holder of the named key. Tamper-evident: any change breaks verification.

Does not: assert the content is true, or that acting on it is correct. This is provenance, not omniscience. It is tamper-evident, not tamper-proof, and it is advisory evidence, not a certification.

Spec

See SPEC.md for the manifest format and the provenance frontmatter convention.

Why this exists

As agents increasingly act on shared, machine-curated knowledge, "where did this come from and has it changed" stops being optional. OKF got the format right and left that layer open. This fills it, in the open, so the format and the trust layer can travel together.

Built by Dynamic Feed, the verifiable evidence layer. Contributions and issues welcome.

Licence

Apache-2.0. See LICENSE.

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