Introducing gknowledge 0.2: Karpathy's LLM Wiki as a native GNOME app

[francescobianco]

We are releasing gknowledge, a new open-source project from Openapi: Karpathy's LLM Wiki as a native GNOME app.

Drop in your documents and gknowledge builds a linked Markdown wiki that a language model keeps up to date. Every page records its sources, and every answer cites the pages it used. It runs offline by default and the knowledge base is a plain folder you can open in Obsidian.

What's in 0.2.0

• Native GTK 4 + Libadwaita app with a Nautilus-style layout. No Electron, no Tauri.
• Works with no model at all, thanks to a built-in offline engine.
• Sign in with ChatGPT: use your own Plus or Pro plan, with no API key. Ollama, LM Studio and any OpenAI-compatible endpoint work too.
• A cleaner wiki: pages only when there is real content, duplicates merged, names kept as written. On six AI papers, 114 pages became 64, each with a real description.
• Rendered pages with clickable [[wikilinks]], citations and backlinks.
• MCP server, so Claude Code, Codex and Cursor can search, read and grow the same wiki:

claude mcp add gknowledge -- gknowledge-mcp ~/Knowledge/my-project

Install

On Ubuntu 24.04+ and Debian 13+:

curl -fsSL https://github.com/openapi/gknowledge/releases/latest/download/install.sh | bash

Or download gknowledge_all.deb from the latest release.

Links

• 📦 Release notes: v0.2.0 · CHANGELOG
• 📝 The story behind it: I turned Karpathy's LLM Wiki into a native GNOME app
• 🌍 README in English, 简体中文 and Italiano

Get involved

gknowledge is MIT licensed and early. We opened 25 issues, including good first issues such as drag and drop, notifications, a Cancel button and an EPUB parser. make start opens a demo project that restarts on every save.

Try it, tell us what feels wrong in the replies below, and if it is useful, a ⭐ on GitHub helps other Linux users find it.