okfsmith

Forge messy documents into OKF v0.2 knowledge bundles.

okfsmith is a Python CLI that ingests PDFs, markdown, wiki dumps, and Notion exports and emits spec-conformant OKF v0.2 bundles: markdown files with YAML frontmatter, plus reserved index.md and log.md. Every concept carries provenance (sources[]), a trust tier, and lifecycle metadata, and every bundle is checked by a built-in §11 validator. Serve it to your agents with one MCP command.

60-second quickstart

pip install okfsmith

okfsmith init ./kb
okfsmith ingest ./kb notes/ report.pdf --no-llm   # offline first pass
okfsmith validate ./kb
okfsmith graph ./kb --format html   # writes ./kb/viz.html — open in a browser

Point any MCP-capable agent at the bundle:

pip install "okfsmith[mcp]"
okfsmith mcp ./kb

Tools exposed: index, list, search, get, neighbors — every answer traces back to sources[] in the bundle.

Why okfsmith

Clean markdown already has good OKF tooling. The messy middle — 200-page PDFs with broken reading order, sprawling Notion exports, wiki dumps — is where knowledge usually lives, and that's what okfsmith ingests first:

parse → section → extract → link → emit → validate → serve

• Tiered parsing, free first. Tier 1 is local and keyless: LiteParse for PDFs, stdlib parsing for markdown/text. Office formats (.docx, .pptx, .xlsx) via the optional okfsmith[office] extra; Docling OCR sidecar via okfsmith[ocr] for scanned pages. PyMuPDF is deliberately avoided (AGPL).
• Two extraction modes. --no-llm writes one draft concept per section — fast, offline, deterministic. With an LLM (Ollama by default, or an OpenAI-compatible API via env vars), a draft + critic flow extracts claims with [^source-id] citations feeding sources[].
• OKF v0.2 native. Only type is required in frontmatter. okfsmith also emits sources[]/provenance, generated/verified trust metadata, and lifecycle fields.
• §11 validator. The spec's hard conformance rules (E001–E004) plus advisory lints (dead links, orphans, stubs, legacy v0.1 fields). Broken links are warnings, never errors (spec §6).
• Graph visualization. okfsmith graph --format html renders a self-contained viz.html (works offline): nodes colored by type with a colorblind-safe palette, shaped by trust tier, with backlinks, search, and keyboard access.
• One-command MCP server. okfsmith mcp ./kb over stdio, SSE, or streamable HTTP.
• Skill pack. skills/okfsmith-build/SKILL.md teaches agents the init → ingest → validate → serve loop.

CLI reference

The bundle is always the first positional argument. Expected failures print error [CODE]: with a hint and never a traceback; usage errors exit 2.

Full reference with examples: docs/commands.md.

Interactive chat

okfsmith chat opens a Claude Code / Gemini CLI style REPL over your bundle: ask questions in plain language, get answers with [concept-id] citations. With local Ollama running (or OPENAI_API_KEY set) answers are synthesized and grounded; otherwise the chat stays useful in extractive mode, showing the keyword-matched concepts themselves. It never answers from thin air — no relevant concepts, no invented answer.

$ okfsmith chat ./kb
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█   █ █  █  █     █     ██ ██   █     █   █   █
█   █ ███   ████   ███  █ █ █   █     █   █████
█   █ █  █  █         █ █   █   █     █   █   █
 ███  █   █ █     ████  █   █ █████   █   █   █
okfsmith chat v0.3.0
Bundle: kb (24 concepts) · openai · qwen3:8b

Tips for getting started:
  1. Ask questions about your documents.
  2. Type /help for chat commands.
  3. Type /ingest <path> to add more documents.

kb › how do I authenticate?
✦
Use a Bearer token in the Authorization header [api/auth].

*Sources: [api/auth]*
kb › aur iska source kya hai
✦
The dashboard, under Settings › API Keys [api/auth].

*Sources: [api/auth]*
kb › /exit
Goodbye — your bundle is untouched.

(On a real terminal the logo renders as a yellow→orange→magenta gradient, the prompt bundle name is colored, and answers carry a subtle ✦ marker. Piped output stays plain ASCII — zero escape codes, always.)

Slash commands: /help /ingest /list /read /search /validate /graph /doctor /model /clear /exit. Line history persists at ~/.okfsmith/history; Ctrl-C cancels input, Ctrl-D quits. Flags: --model to pick the model, --no-llm to force extractive mode.

Web dashboard

Prefer a UI? okfsmith dashboard launches a local web app — the full product in the browser: drag-and-drop ingest with live pipeline progress, an interactive knowledge graph, grounded chat with clickable citations, validation, temporal queries, MCP tools, eval, and settings.

okfsmith dashboard

It binds only to 127.0.0.1 (never exposed to the network), generates a fresh login token on every launch, and loads zero third-party resources — the entire UI is packaged with okfsmith and works fully offline. Same bundles, same CLI underneath.

Full walkthrough with screenshots: Web dashboard guide.

Use any model (API key)

Ollama is the default, but any OpenAI-compatible model works — one key, any provider. OpenRouter is the flagship: a single key routes to hundreds of models (anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-style IDs included):

export OKFSMITH_API_KEY="sk-or-..."        # your OpenRouter key
okfsmith chat ./kb --provider openrouter --model anthropic/claude-sonnet-4
okfsmith ingest ./kb docs/ --provider openrouter --model openai/gpt-4o-mini

Prefer env vars — the flags also work:

export OKFSMITH_API_KEY="..."              # Groq example
export OKFSMITH_PROVIDER=groq
okfsmith chat ./kb --model llama-3.3-70b-versatile

okfsmith chat ./kb --provider deepseek --model deepseek-chat
okfsmith chat ./kb --provider gemini --model gemini-2.0-flash

export AGENTROUTER_API_KEY="..."       # Agent Router gateway example
okfsmith chat ./kb --provider agentrouter --model gpt-4o-mini

Provider presets (15): openrouter · groq · mistral · deepseek · together · fireworks · deepinfra · anyscale · perplexity · xai · gemini · openai · agentrouter · lmstudio · ollama.

Literally anything else — Azure OpenAI, self-hosted vLLM, a llama.cpp server, any compat proxy — works via --api-base:

okfsmith chat ./kb --api-base https://my-proxy/v1 --model my-model

Notes:

• Put the key in OKFSMITH_API_KEY (AGENTROUTER_API_KEY is honored for the agentrouter preset). --api-key also works but lands in your shell history — okfsmith warns you once per session about that.
• Keys are never logged, never shown (banners and okfsmith doctor only say set (hidden)), and never written to disk.
• Anthropic's native API is not OpenAI-compatible, so it can't be called directly — use the openrouter preset (routes to Claude with one key) or point --api-base at an OpenAI-compatible gateway in front of Anthropic.
• okfsmith doctor shows the resolved provider, base URL, model, and key status without probing the network.

Install options

pip install "okfsmith[office]"   # DOCX / PPTX / XLSX
pip install "okfsmith[mcp]"      # MCP server
pip install "okfsmith[ocr]"      # Docling OCR sidecar
pipx install "okfsmith[office,mcp]"

okfsmith doctor verifies your setup.

Docs

📚 Live documentation website: https://bilal-junaid-jiwani.github.io/okfsmith/

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License

Apache-2.0. See LICENSE.