diff --git a/src/instructlab/schema/v3/__init__.py b/src/instructlab/schema/v3/__init__.py
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diff --git a/src/instructlab/schema/v3/knowledge.json b/src/instructlab/schema/v3/knowledge.json
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+{
+    "title": "Knowledge",
+    "description": "A knowledge skill.",
+    "type": "object",
+    "$ref": "./version.json",
+    "required": [
+        "created_by",
+        "domain",
+        "seed_examples",
+        "document",
+        "document_outline"
+    ],
+    "unevaluatedProperties": false,
+    "properties": {
+        "created_by": {
+            "description": "The GitHub username of the contributor.",
+            "type": "string",
+            "minLength": 1
+        },
+        "domain": {
+            "description": "The knowledge domain which is used in prompts to the teacher model during synthetic data generation. The domain should be brief such as the title to a textbook chapter or section.",
+            "type": "string",
+            "minLength": 1,
+            "examples": [
+                "Chemistry",
+                "History",
+                "Pop culture"
+            ]
+        },
+        "seed_examples": {
+            "description": "An array of seed examples for synthetic data generation.",
+            "type": "array",
+            "minItems": 5,
+            "uniqueItems": true,
+            "items": {
+                "type": "object",
+                "required": [
+                    "context",
+                    "questions_and_answers"
+                ],
+                "unevaluatedProperties": false,
+                "properties": {
+                    "context": {
+                        "description": "Context from the document associated with this set of sample q&a pairs.",
+                        "type": "string",
+                        "minLength": 1
+                    },
+                    "questions_and_answers": {
+                        "type": "array",
+                        "minItems": 3,
+                        "uniqueItems": true,
+                        "items": {
+                            "type": "object",
+                            "required": [
+                                "question",
+                                "answer"
+                            ],
+                            "properties": {
+                                "question": {
+                                    "description": "A question used for synthetic data generation.",
+                                    "type": "string",
+                                    "minLength": 1
+                                },
+                                "answer": {
+                                    "description": "The desired response for the question.",
+                                    "type": "string",
+                                    "minLength": 1
+                                }
+                            }
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        },
+        "document": {
+            "description": "The knowledge documents.",
+            "type": "object",
+            "required": [
+                "repo",
+                "commit",
+                "patterns"
+            ],
+            "unevaluatedProperties": false,
+            "properties": {
+                "repo": {
+                    "description": "The URL to a Git repository holding the knowledge documents.",
+                    "type": "string",
+                    "minLength": 1,
+                    "examples": [
+                        "https://github.com/instructlab/instructlab.git"
+                    ]
+                },
+                "commit": {
+                    "description": "The commit in the Git repository containing the knowledge documents.",
+                    "type": "string",
+                    "minLength": 1,
+                    "examples": [
+                        "951999afdc59c46d325493568193b40bd5439c9e"
+                    ]
+                },
+                "patterns": {
+                    "description": "An array of glob patterns of the knowledge documents in the Git repository.",
+                    "type": "array",
+                    "minItems": 1,
+                    "uniqueItems": true,
+                    "items": {
+                        "type": "string",
+                        "minLength": 1,
+                        "examples": [
+                            "*.md",
+                            "folder/*.md",
+                            "folder/knowledge_doc.md"
+                        ]
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        },
+        "document_outline": {
+            "description": "An outline of the document.",
+            "type": "string",
+            "minLength": 1
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/instructlab/schema/v3/version.json b/src/instructlab/schema/v3/version.json
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+{
+    "title": "Taxonomy Document Schema Version",
+    "type": "object",
+    "required": [
+        "version"
+    ],
+    "properties": {
+        "version": {
+            "description": "The schema version of the taxonomy document.",
+            "type": "integer",
+            "$comment": "This value must match the number in the containing folder.",
+            "const": 3
+        }
+    }
+}