llm-wiki

A Claude Code plugin for building personal knowledge bases using LLMs.

Based on Andrej Karpathy's LLM Wiki pattern (April 2026) — the idea that the correct way to use LLMs with documents is not retrieval (RAG), but knowledge compilation into a persistent, interlinked wiki.

raw/ (you add)  →  LLM compiles  →  wiki/ (agent maintains)  →  Obsidian (you read)

Installation

Claude Code (Plugin Marketplace)

# 1. Add the marketplace
/plugin marketplace add KaelLim/llm-wiki

# 2. Install the plugin
/plugin install llm-wiki@llm-wiki

Manual Setup (any LLM agent)

Copy skills/llm-wiki/SKILL.md content into your agent's system instructions (CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md).

Quick Start

# 1. Bootstrap a new wiki (creates directories + sets global config)
bash scripts/wiki-bootstrap.sh ~/my-wiki

# 2. Open the wiki directory and start Claude Code
cd ~/my-wiki
claude

# 3. Drop a source and ingest
#    (save an article to raw/articles/my-article.md, then:)
> ingest raw/articles/my-article.md

# 4. Query your wiki
> What do I know about distributed systems?

# 5. Health check
> lint

Multi-Project Setup

The wiki is a single, central knowledge base — not one per project. The bootstrap script automatically saves the wiki path to ~/.config/llm-wiki/root, so the agent knows where to find it from any project.

To explicitly point a project to the wiki, add this to the project's CLAUDE.md:

wiki-root: /absolute/path/to/my-wiki

The agent will never create raw/ or wiki/ inside a code project directory.

Usage

The skill triggers automatically via natural language. Just tell the agent what you want:

> ingest raw/articles/my-article.md     ← processes source into wiki pages
> lint                                   ← checks wiki health
> What is event-driven architecture?     ← queries wiki, cites pages

All six workflows (ingest, query, lint, enhance, compile, evolve-schema) are documented in skills/llm-wiki/SKILL.md.

Architecture

Based on Karpathy's three-layer design:

Layer	Owner	Purpose
raw/	Human	Immutable source material
wiki/	LLM	Compiled, interlinked knowledge pages
CLAUDE.md	Both	Schema governing wiki conventions

Recommended Obsidian Plugins

• Dataview — Query pages by frontmatter fields
• Calendar — Track learning logs
• Graph View (built-in) — Visualize knowledge connections

License

MIT