What is Knowledge Object?
A Knowledge Object is a self-contained unit of expertise - the content, its structure, its provenance, its permissions and its validity period held together - so an AI system can use it, cite it and enforce rules about it. It is Uthereal's alternative to loose files and raw text chunks.
Also known as: knowledge object definition, structured knowledge unit.
Treating knowledge as objects rather than documents makes the hard questions answerable: who may see this, which version applies today, where did this claim come from, and what happens downstream when it is superseded.
How Uthereal handles it
Knowledge Objects are the unit Cortex ingests, governs, retrieves and licenses.
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Last updated 2026-09-18 · plain-text glossary for AI tools