rock-star-skills

Rock Star Skills

A collection of Claude Code skills for knowledge management, wiki building, and more.

Skills

LLM Wiki

A pattern for building persistent, interlinked knowledge bases using LLMs. Instead of re-deriving knowledge from raw documents on every query (like RAG), the LLM incrementally builds and maintains a structured wiki of markdown files. The wiki compounds over time as you add sources and ask questions.

Based on Andrej Karpathy's LLM Wiki idea. See also the local copy with annotations.

Skill	Purpose
/llmwiki:init	Initialize wiki structure, set up qmd search, run first full ingest
/llmwiki:ingest	Process new/modified sources into the wiki (MD5 change detection)
/llmwiki:search <query>	Search wiki via qmd and synthesize answers with citations
/llmwiki:optimize	Compact, merge, reorganize, strengthen cross-references
/llmwiki:health	Audit for broken links, orphans, contradictions, source drift

How it works:

1. You drop source files (articles, papers, notes) into raw/, docs/, or notes/.
2. Run /llmwiki:ingest -- the LLM reads each source, creates summary pages, entity pages, concept pages, and maintains cross-references using [[wikilinks]].
3. Query the wiki with /llmwiki:search -- get synthesized answers with citations.
4. The wiki keeps getting richer with every source you add and every question you ask.

Works great with Obsidian -- the wiki is just a folder of interlinked markdown files. Open it in Obsidian and use graph view to see the shape of your knowledge base.

Installation

As a Claude Code plugin (recommended)

Run these commands in Claude Code:

# Add the marketplace (one-time)
/plugin marketplace add marvec/rock-star-skills

# Install the plugin
/plugin install rock-star-skills@rock-star-skills

Manual settings.json

Alternatively, add to your ~/.claude/settings.json:

{
  "extraKnownMarketplaces": {
    "rock-star-skills": {
      "source": {
        "source": "github",
        "repo": "marvec/rock-star-skills"
      }
    }
  },
  "enabledPlugins": {
    "rock-star-skills@rock-star-skills": true
  }
}

Then restart Claude Code.

Manual symlink installation

Clone the repo and symlink each skill into your Claude skills directory:

git clone https://github.com/marvec/rock-star-skills.git
cd rock-star-skills

# Symlink all skills
for skill in skills/*/; do
  ln -sf "$(pwd)/$skill" "$HOME/.claude/skills/$(basename $skill)"
done

Prerequisites

• Claude Code CLI or IDE extension
• qmd (optional but recommended) -- local markdown search engine with hybrid BM25/vector search. Install with npm install -g @tobilu/qmd. Without qmd, skills fall back to index-based search and grep.

Wiki Structure

After running /llmwiki:init, the wiki directory looks like this:

wiki/
├── index.md          # Master index of all pages (updated on every ingest)
├── log.md            # Chronological log of all operations
├── .manifest.json    # MD5 hashes for source change detection
├── entities/         # Pages about specific things (people, companies, tools)
├── concepts/         # Conceptual/topic pages
├── sources/          # One summary page per ingested source document
├── comparisons/      # Comparison tables, side-by-side analyses
└── synthesis/        # Cross-cutting analyses, evolving theses

Source directories (never modified by the LLM):

raw/                  # Primary source documents
├── attachments/      # Images and binary assets
docs/                 # Research, ideas, brainstorms
notes/                # Personal notes, daily logs

Page Conventions

Every wiki page has YAML frontmatter:

---
title: Page Title
type: entity | concept | source | comparison | synthesis
tags: [tag1, tag2]
sources: [path/to/original.md]
created: 2026-04-06
updated: 2026-04-06
---

Cross-references use Obsidian-compatible [[wikilinks]]. All links are bidirectional.

Change Detection

The ingest skill tracks every source file via MD5 checksums in wiki/.manifest.json. On each run it detects:

• New files -- not in manifest, queued for ingest
• Modified files -- MD5 changed, queued for re-ingest (updates existing wiki pages)
• Deleted files -- flagged for user attention
• Unchanged files -- skipped

The health skill also checks for source drift and reports stale wiki pages.

Usage

Setup

Add the following to your project's CLAUDE.md (or equivalent) so the LLM knows how to use the wiki:

## LLM Wiki