knowledge engineering
An index for work on legibility, knowledge architecture, and the formalization of knowledge work during the AI transition.
Scope
This page gathers the current knowledge-engineering sequence. Protocol disclosure and assurance is included as an applied route because it tests the same concern with structured, verifiable knowledge artifacts. The style guide remains a practice artifact rather than part of this sequence.
Research question
What changes when knowledge work is treated as engineering work?
Method
The sequence asks how knowledge artifacts make systems legible, how those artifacts should be structured when their consumers are no longer only human readers, and why the work of capture, validation, maintenance, and transfer needs disciplinary form.
- LegibilityDefine the conditions under which external reasoners can form reliable beliefs from structured evidence.
- ArchitectureDesign knowledge artifacts for heterogeneous consumers rather than a single intended reader.
- DisciplineFormalize the work of capturing, validating, maintaining, and transferring knowledge as engineering practice.
Inclusion standardA paper belongs here when it develops the legibility, architecture, or disciplinary form of knowledge work.
On Legibility
External reasoning, structured evidence, and the conditions for reliable belief
Knowledge Architecture Beyond the Single Consumer
Knowledge design for heterogeneous reasoners and unknown future consumers
Toward a Discipline of Knowledge Engineering
Formalizing knowledge work during the AI transition
Applied route
Protocol disclosure and assurance
A connected route where the same concern with legible, verifiable knowledge artifacts is tested in public protocol disclosure.
Protocol Disclosure and Assurance
Machine-readable disclosure and assurance for public protocols