LLM Wiki Manager
A Claude Code skill for building and maintaining a personal LLM-managed wiki — a persistent, compounding knowledge base where the LLM does all the writing, cross-referencing, and bookkeeping while you curate sources and ask questions.
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Quick Start
git clone https://github.com/sametbrr/llm-wiki-manager ~/.claude/skills/llm-wiki-manager
Start a new Claude Code session in your research folder:
mkdir ~/research/my-topic && cd ~/research/my-topic && claude
> "Set up an LLM wiki here. Topic: history of nutrition science."
Features
Instead of RAG — where the LLM rediscovers answers from raw documents on every query — this pattern has the LLM compile raw sources into a persistent, interlinked markdown wiki. Each new source enriches existing pages. Cross-references are built eagerly. Contradictions are flagged. Knowledge compounds over time.
Implements Karpathy's LLM Wiki pattern as a full Claude Code skill with 8 operating modes (including multi-wiki routing), 5 idempotent Python scripts, 8 page templates, and 11 reference documents.
Without this pattern With this pattern
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Query 1 → re-read 50 docs Query 1 → read compiled wiki (already synthesized)
Query 2 → re-read 50 docs Query 2 → read updated wiki (cross-refs already there)
Query 3 → re-read 50 docs Query 3 → read updated wiki (contradictions already flagged)
Requirements
- Claude Code or any agentskills.io-compatible agent
- Python 3.9+ (stdlib only, for the 5 included scripts — no pip install needed)
Installation
Option 1 — git clone (recommended)
git clone https://github.com/sametbrr/llm-wiki-manager ~/.claude/skills/llm-wiki-manager
Option 2 — GitHub CLI (requires gh CLI v2.90+)
gh skill install sametbrr/llm-wiki-manager
Option 3 — .skill file
curl -L -o llm-wiki-manager.skill \
https://github.com/sametbrr/llm-wiki-manager/releases/latest/download/llm-wiki-manager.skill
unzip llm-wiki-manager.skill -d ~/.claude/skills/llm-wiki-manager
After installing, start a new Claude Code session. The skill loads automatically when relevant.
Usage
The skill auto-detects which mode applies from natural language. No slash commands needed.
Modes
| Mode | Trigger examples | What happens |
|---|
| Bootstrap | "Set up a wiki", "start a knowledge base here" | Scaffolds raw/, wiki/, CLAUDE.md from templates |
| Ingest | "Add this PDF to the wiki", "I just read X, file it" | Reads source → writes summary → updates entity/concept pages → indexes → logs |
| Query | "What does the wiki say about X?", "Compare X and Y" | Reads index → candidate pages → synthesizes answer with citations → offers to file back |
| Update | "Smith 2024 supersedes Keys 1980, update the wiki" | Semantic sweep across all pages → diff-before-write per page → single log entry |
| Lint | "Health check the wiki", "anything broken?" | Runs lint_wiki.py → auto-saves wiki/reports/lint-YYYY-MM-DD.md → auto-tracks in index and log |
| Schema-evolve | "We should always do X going forward" | Updates CLAUDE.md so future sessions inherit the convention |
| Multi-wiki | "Add this to my global wiki", "promote this page to global" | Routes between project wiki and global wiki using the External Wiki: declaration in project CLAUDE.md |
| Teach | "How does this pattern work?", "explain the LLM wiki idea" | Explains the pattern, compares with RAG, walks through a concrete example |
Full walkthrough
# 1. Go to your research folder
mkdir ~/research/my-topic && cd ~/research/my-topic && claude
# 2. Bootstrap the wiki
> "Set up an LLM wiki here. Topic: history of nutrition science."
# 3. Drop a source
cp ~/Downloads/pollan-2008.pdf raw/
# 4. Ingest it
> "Ingest Pollan's In Defense of Food"
# 5. Ask questions
> "What does the wiki say about nutritionism?"
# 6. Health check (auto-saves dated report to wiki/reports/)
> "Lint the wiki"
The three-layer model
