KTL Federation
A museum that borrows for an exhibition never owns what it shows: each loan is named exactly, its condition recorded, and the lender’s name kept on the label. KTL Federation does the same for knowledge bundles.
Knowledge Trust Ladder (KTL) keeps a repository’s checked knowledge as a bundle: the repository’s context layer, with trust in every claim left visible. The design goes beyond one repository: a federation of many bundles, each kept and trusted where it lives, read as one graph. This repository is the domain of one such federation.
The domain is a thin LOKF bundle whose concepts are other repositories’ bundles. Each member concept is the loan agreement: it names one released zip and its checksum, and a person confirms that the bundle belongs. The workspace and graph that a reader queries are built from member releases, with one named graph per bundle and every claim visible. The documentation is at w3id.org/ktl/federation. The architecture says what the domain holds, how it stays current and how the workspace is built.
Only want to ask? Install
ktl-docentinto any agent you use, by a route from the install page, and ask it about this federation. It answers from the bundle and says how far each answer has been checked.Agents: if
.lokf/knowledge/index.mdexists, read it first.llms.txtsays how to weigh it.
Members
Section titled “Members”| Member | Its bundle | Its member concept here |
|---|---|---|
| KTL, which publishes the skills | w3id.org/ktl/knowledge | members/knowledge-trust-ladder |
| KTL Curator, the Obsidian plugin for the person who decides what a bundle may claim | w3id.org/ktl/curator/knowledge | members/obsidian-ktl-curator |
| KTL Registrar, the Obsidian plugin that keeps a bundle well-formed as you edit it | w3id.org/ktl/registrar/knowledge | members/obsidian-ktl-registrar |
| AI-LinkMO, a reference implementation of operational AI governance | its knowledge pages | members/ai-linkmo |
| gist, a LinkML rendering of Semantic Arts’ gist upper ontology, from lmodel | w3id.org/lmodel/gist/knowledge | members/gist |
| linkml-sidecar, the skills that give a repository a LinkML schema without touching its build | w3id.org/ktl/linkml-sidecar/knowledge | members/linkml-sidecar |
Each member concept names its release and checksum, and the workspace index lists every member’s release and health line. The federation policy says what admits a bundle and what the build does with a link no member owns.
License
Section titled “License”The repository is under the Apache License 2.0, and the knowledge bundle under CC BY 4.0. Contributions follow CONTRIBUTING.md and the AI Covenant.