[[Knowledge]] about *how* to do something — sequences of actions, workflows, methods, and processes. Also called **know-how**.
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Examples:
- "How to deploy to production"
- "The incident response process"
- "Steps to onboard a new client"
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## In [[Knowledge base design]]
Procedural knowledge is inherently sequential and harder to atomize. It fits best as runbooks, checklists, or step-by-step documents.
Forcing procedural knowledge into [[Node|graph nodes]] (one node per step) loses the sequential context that makes the procedure understandable — an agent reading step 3 in isolation won't know why it follows step 2.
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