Glossary

Annotation A note left on a piece, in its annotations/ folder. See Documents and links.

Bundle A whole organization as one zip or folder of Markdown files, with a POF.md manifest at its root. See The bundle.

Commit One change to the organization, made by one actor at one moment, listed in COMMITS.md. See History.

Core The seven types every organization has: Role, Skill, Policy, Objective, Routine, Channel and Connection. See The bundle.

Extension Another system’s data inside a bundle, in extensions/<namespace>/, with its own EXTENSION.md and namespaced types (hub.deal). See Extensions.

Frontmatter The YAML block at the top of every document, between --- lines, with its structured fields, apart from its Markdown body.

Kind A piece’s type within its family’s catalog, written only in families with more than one: Objective, Channel and Connection.

Link A relation from one piece to another, written as a role and a path (to). See Documents and links.

Manifest POF.md: what the bundle is, which revision of the spec it follows and which extensions it carries. See The manifest.

MCP (Model Context Protocol) An open protocol for how an agent connects to tools and resources. See POF vs. MCP vs. Agent Skills.

OKF (Open Knowledge Format) The frontmatter convention POF documents conform to: type required, title, description and tags as its recommended fields.

Piece One document of the core, in its own folder: a role, a skill, a policy, an objective, a routine, a channel or a connection.

Revision The version of this spec a bundle follows, named by its date. The current one is 2026-10-16.

Slug The lowercase, hyphenated name of a folder (aprobacion-de-compras). It is a piece’s name and its identity in the bundle.

Subentity An item that belongs to a piece, in a folder of it: a policy’s rules, an objective’s key results, a skill’s files.