WWK (What We Know)
person concept tool org talk claim — click a node to jump to its page; hover an arrow for the relation
A WWK (What We Know) is a consolidated knowledge artifact used within long-running agent workflows to maintain a single, up-to-date summary of the freshest and most recent ideas or findings accumulated during a task.
Purpose and Function
The WWK serves as a living "diary" or synthesis document within the Ask-Plan-Audit-Build-Verify Workflow. Rather than requiring an agent (or human collaborator) to reconstruct context from scattered prior steps, the WWK consolidates current understanding into one place. As described in the source talk: "I build a WWK or a what we know. We basically consolidate all the freshest, you know, most recent ideas into a single diary." 27:55
Role in Long-Running ("Forever") Work
The WWK is specifically designed for "messy forever work" — tasks that persist across many sessions, tool calls, or agent iterations where context would otherwise be lost or fragmented. By maintaining a single authoritative record of what is currently known, the WWK functions as a workspace memory primitive, reducing the risk of the agent (or workflow) losing track of accumulated progress or re-deriving information that has already been established.
Relationship to Other Concepts
The WWK is a component of the broader Ask-Plan-Audit-Build-Verify Workflow, sitting alongside planning and auditing steps as part of the scaffolding that gives agents a stable operational foundation across extended tasks.