GitKB: A Git-Like Knowledge Base for AI Agents

Takeaways

• GitKB is a distributed, Git-like knowledge base for everything that is not code: specs, tasks and context that shouldn't live with your code.
• It is single-branch and sparse by default, so you can pull just a path, and every document has its own commit chain.
• Agents work with Markdown files and commit them; the commit process builds a graph, and a code graph from parsing your code can be linked to the document graph.
• The demo bootstraps a knowledge base for a project, then shows a real task: an agent root-causes a CI stall, works in a worktree and checks off acceptance criteria.
• Many agents can work on many branches against one knowledge base using Git worktrees. He says most operations take under 30 milliseconds.