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My D&D Campaign Notes Accidentally Matched Google's New RAG Spec

I run a RAG system off a 2017 Intel NUC to answer questions about my D&D campaign. It's built on session notes and NPC write-ups that were never meant for a machine to read, just for me and three other players to find things in Obsidian six months later. So when Google Cloud published the Open Knowledge Format in June, a spec for structuring exactly that kind of markdown-and-links vault, I had an odd realisation: mine already looked like one, by accident. The question I actually wanted answered wasn't "should you adopt this spec," which is the take every hot take on it has gone with. It was narrower. I already had a working system and a list of queries it couldn't answer. Would OKF's structure fix any of them?

Short answer: one, cleanly. The rest is a more useful story than a yes or no.