llm-wiki-manager

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.

🇹🇷 Türkçe için README.tr.md

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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."

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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)

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Requirements

• Claude Code or any agentskills.io-compatible agent
• Python 3.9+ (stdlib only, for the 5 included scripts — no pip install needed)

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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.

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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"

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The three-layer model