knowledge-atoms

Knowledge graph primitives as a foundation for RAG, semantic memory, and AI knowledge bases — entity types, relationship types, provenance, fact types, confidence primitives.

knowledge-atoms is a *-Atoms catalog in the Convergent Systems ecosystem. It defines what exists in its domain — typed, versioned, machine-readable, composable, and open — so runtimes (and humans) can stand on shared infrastructure instead of reinventing it.

Structure

knowledge-atoms/
├── ATOMS.yml              # Catalog manifest
├── atoms/                 # Reusable building blocks
├── knowledge-bases/   # Compositions assembled from atoms
├── rules/                 # Typed constraint vocabulary
├── schemas/               # Catalog-specific JSON Schemas
├── exports/               # CI-generated machine-readable exports
└── docs/                  # Human-readable documentation

Atom types

• entity-type
• relationship-type
• provenance-atom
• fact-type
• confidence-primitive

Rule types

• relationship-constraint
• provenance-requirement
• contradiction-handling

Runtime consumers

olympus

How to consume

Machine-readable exports are published in exports/ on every release:

• exports/manifest.json — lightweight discovery (name, version, counts)
• exports/catalog.json — full catalog dump (every atom, composition, rule)

Exports are deterministic, signed, and versioned. See ATOMS.yml for the manifest and the conformance spec.

How to contribute

1. Read ATOMS.yml to understand the catalog's atom types, compositions, and rules.
2. Add a new atom under atoms/<type>/ or a composition under knowledge-bases/<name>/.
3. Open a PR. CI validates the schema, references, and exports.
4. Larger structural changes go through the XAIP process.

Ecosystem

• Federation: xdao.co · github.com/convergent-systems-co/xdao
• Spec: github.com/convergent-systems-co/atoms-spec
• Tools: github.com/convergent-systems-co/atoms-tools
• Umbrella: github.com/convergent-systems-co/atoms — all catalogs as submodules
• Other catalogs: brand-atoms, service-atoms, prompt-atoms, policy-atoms, identity-atoms, compliance-atoms, workflow-atoms, agent-atoms, knowledge-atoms, event-atoms, plugin-atoms

License

Apache-2.0 — see LICENSE.