Export & import

Move standards, skills, and sessions between machines as portable JSONL.

Export packages parent entities (standards, skills, sessions) with their sections and chunks. Import assigns fresh IDs and remaps relations — safe for sharing knowledge without copying raw database files.

orkai export

orkai export my-project
orkai export my-project --exclude=session
orkai export ad7e --output=backup.orkai.jsonl

Writes <category-name>.orkai.jsonl by default.

Options

OptionDescription
--exclude=type,…Skip parent types: standard, skill, session
--output pathOutput file path

orkai import

orkai import my-project backup.orkai.jsonl
orkai import my-project https://example.com/shared.orkai.jsonl
orkai import my-project backup.orkai.jsonl --dry-run

Target category is created if it does not exist. Use --dry-run to validate without writing.

Typical uses

  • Back up standards and skills before a major re-index
  • Share a team skill pack via URL
  • Clone knowledge to a second machine (export → import into a new category)