- Topic: FR-0011
- Retrieval date: 2026-08-30
- Status: research complete; POC proposed
Decision question
Should Frontier Radar test OpenWiki and Open Knowledge Format as a portable, claim-grounded maintenance layer for its Markdown corpus?
Short answer
Yes. This is the closest fit in the backlog: Frontier Radar already needs provenance, freshness, supersession, and rebuildable Markdown. A trial can test whether OpenWiki's Grounded Claims and OKF metadata improve those properties without surrendering human review or the existing corpus.
Evidence and examples
- OpenWiki writes and maintains agent-oriented Markdown, records material claims against versioned repository evidence, and rechecks stale claims during updates.
- The repository describes a durable page-job lifecycle, coding-agent integrations, sidecar claim state, and OKF v0.2 output.
- The full discovery article reports OpenWiki 0.4.0 results in which stale and hallucinated claims fell in the authors' replay evaluation. Those are author-reported results, not Frontier Radar measurements.
- The published docs overview still mentions OKF v0.1 in one section while the current repository says v0.2, illustrating the freshness problem the product is intended to solve.
Assessment
Source claim: OpenWiki connects claims to exact source evidence and emits portable knowledge metadata.
Inference: A parallel trial on Frontier Radar can test value without replacing the current reviewed records. The critical questions are diff quality, claim stability, source precision, retraction behavior, and whether generated churn remains reviewable.
Measured experiment results: none in Frontier Radar.
Limitations and unresolved questions
- The strongest evaluation numbers come from the OpenWiki author.
- Grounded Claims currently focus on repository evidence; external web-source lifecycle may behave differently.
- Generated documentation can add review volume and false confidence.
- The repository and published documentation showed at least one version mismatch on retrieval day.
Recommendation
poc — generate an OpenWiki/OKF view of Frontier Radar in an isolated branch, inject known source changes and retractions, and compare its outputs with the existing Markdown/OpenContext pipeline.
Next decision
Approve a non-destructive Frontier Radar trial with explicit freshness, retraction, provenance, and churn success criteria.