# llm-wiki

Turns papers, transcripts and notes into a linked Markdown wiki, then answers questions from it with citations. Useful once your material outgrows a chat window.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 123
- Author: praneybehl
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/praneybehl/llm-wiki-plugin/tree/HEAD/skills/llm-wiki/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-13
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/praneybehl-llm-wiki

## What it does

The skill splits a wiki into three layers: raw sources you never edit, Markdown pages the model writes, and a `SCHEMA.md` holding the conventions for that wiki. Three operations run against them. Ingest reads a new source and updates the pages it touches. Query walks the index, opens what matters and synthesizes an answer. Lint hunts contradictions, stale claims and broken links. Navigation starts at `index.md`.

Pages can carry typed `graph:` metadata in frontmatter. A bundled extractor then compiles `wiki/graph/` into `nodes.jsonl`, `edges.jsonl`, `graph.sqlite` and `graph.graphml`. Markdown stays canonical and the graph can be rebuilt at any time. Semantic edges such as `depends_on` need an explicit source and an evidence quote, so nothing gets inferred from training data. Rebuild with `uv run --script scripts/wiki_graph_lint.py wiki/` and `uv run --script scripts/wiki_graph_extract.py wiki/`.

You can keep the wiki inside one project or give it a stable root like `~/wiki/` with sources under `~/wiki/raw/`. A global install only makes the skill available everywhere; it does not pick a wiki for you, so the path belongs in your agent instructions. When `wiki/graph/ontology.yaml` is missing, the graph step is skipped. Two wikis are never merged silently, which is why the storage location is worth settling before the first ingest.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add praneybehl/llm-wiki-plugin --skill llm-wiki -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/llm-wiki/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/llm-wiki/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add praneybehl/llm-wiki-plugin --skill llm-wiki -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/llm-wiki/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add praneybehl/llm-wiki-plugin --skill llm-wiki -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/llm-wiki/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install praneybehl/llm-wiki-plugin llm-wiki
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/llm-wiki/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add praneybehl/llm-wiki-plugin --skill llm-wiki -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/praneybehl/llm-wiki-plugin --path skills/llm-wiki
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/llm-wiki/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add praneybehl/llm-wiki-plugin --skill llm-wiki -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/praneybehl/llm-wiki-plugin/tree/HEAD/skills/llm-wiki/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- file a stack of papers and transcripts into linked pages
- get an answer from your own material with a source attached
- surface contradictions and stale claims across a wiki
- carry a task write-up into later sessions and other agents
- propose and roll back a procedure change backed by evidence

## Example prompts
- Add this paper to my wiki and update the related pages
- What does the wiki say about diffusion models?
- Lint the wiki and tell me what's missing

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: llm-wiki
description: |
  Build and maintain an LLM-curated knowledge base from papers, articles, transcripts, notes and project findings. Ingest sources into linked Markdown, answer questions with citations, lint or upgrade a wiki, and preserve useful synthesis across sessions and agents. Also capture verified task experience, consolidate success/failure patterns, and propose, evaluate, apply or roll back evidence-linked skill improvements. Trigger on "add this to my wiki", "what does the wiki say", "learn from this task", "improve this procedure", /wiki:learn or /wiki:evolve. Use index-first navigation, atomic pages and local hybrid search.
---

# LLM Wiki

A skill for building and maintaining an LLM-curated knowledge base at any user-chosen filesystem location, following the pattern Andrej Karpathy described in his April 2026 gist. One personal wiki can compound knowledge across projects, or a wiki can be isolated inside one project. The user curates sources and asks questions; the LLM does the bookkeeping.

## The pattern in one paragraph

Conventional RAG re-derives knowledge from raw chunks on every query; nothing accumulates. The LLM Wiki pattern flips this: when a new source arrives, the LLM compiles it once into a persistent, structured wiki — extracting concepts, writing entity pages, updating cross-references, flagging contradictions. Subsequent queries read the pre-synthesized wiki rather than the raw sources. Knowledge compounds. The user is in charge of sourcing and asking good questions; the LLM handles the summarizing, linking, and consistency work that humans abandon wikis over.

## When to use this skill

The trigger surface is broad. Any time the user is accumulating textual material over time — research papers, articles, transcripts, meeting notes, book chapters, customer calls, code repos, journal entries — and would benefit from having that material organized rather than dumped into a chat each session, this skill applies. It is equally useful for one source ("ingest this paper") and for the steady-state operations against an existing wiki ("what does my wiki say about diffusion models", "lint the wiki", "what's missing").
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