Shared learning, shared standards, shared adoption
The open, not-for-profit community around Knowledge Sidekick — the place where the research, standards, and adoption work is discussed, tested, and carried forward by the people doing the work.
A place to do the work together
Knowledge-first practice is not a tool you install. It is a practice a team adopts, and the adoption is easier when there is a community around it — people working on the same ideas, testing the same standards, sharing what works and what does not. This page is the open, not-for-profit side of that effort.
What the community covers
The community is the place where the ideas on this site are taken from page to practice. It covers:
- Shared learning — discussion of the research pieces, the standards, and the adoption practice, from people doing the work in real settings.
- Shared standards — the open conventions for representation, lifecycle, grounding, the agent interface, and discoverability, refined through use.
- Shared adoption — the messy middle of putting knowledge-first practice into place, including what fails, what works, and what is still unclear.
- Events — meetups and sessions where the ideas are taken apart in public, including the Bengaluru JavaScript Meetup where much of this work has been discussed.
The community is not a product. It is the open counterpart to the business-facing side of the work, which lives at knowledgesidekick.com.
How to take part
The community is open. You do not need to be a customer of the business side to take part in the open side. The short version:
- Read the research pieces and say what is wrong, what is missing, and what works in your setting.
- Try the standards in a small way — one representation convention, one lifecycle discipline — and report back what breaks.
- Bring the adoption problems you are actually facing, not the ones that are easy to talk about.
- Join the Bengaluru JavaScript Meetup at meetup.com/javascriptmeetup, where much of this work has been discussed in public.
The goal is not to build a large community for its own sake. The goal is to have enough people doing the work in enough different settings that the standards and the adoption practice are tested against reality, not just against the page.
Events
Public discussion of this work happens most often in the Bengaluru JavaScript Meetup, organized by Janardan Revuru. The meetup is the place where the ideas are taken apart in front of an audience that is building real things.
Details and upcoming sessions are at meetup.com/javascriptmeetup. The meetup is the public face of the community; this page is the home for the open work around it.
FAQ
No. The community is the open, not-for-profit side of the work. You do not need to be a customer of the business side, at knowledgesidekick.com, to take part. The two sides share the same ideas; one is for buying help, the other is for learning and adopting the ideas directly.
It is not a general AI forum, not a vendor showcase, and not a place to promote a product. It is the community around one idea — knowledge as a first-class layer in agentic systems — and the standards and adoption practice that surround it.
The blog is one voice — Janardan's — on what is happening in the field. The community is the place where other voices enter: people testing the standards, adopting the practice, and reporting back what works and what does not. The blog is the view from one desk; the community is the view from the room.