llm-wiki

llm-wiki

A Claude Code plugin for building and maintaining persistent, LLM-maintained knowledge bases in Obsidian format. One install, four skills, and any directory becomes a compounding wiki the LLM writes for you.

Based on Andrej Karpathy's LLM Wiki, extended with scaling patterns from agentmemory. Full acknowledgements in origin/CREDITS.md.

Status. Early, not yet on a public Claude Code marketplace. Install by cloning — see Install.

The idea in one line

Stop re-deriving knowledge with RAG every time; have the LLM compile it into a structured wiki that compounds over time. You curate sources and ask questions. The LLM does the rest — summarising, cross-referencing, flagging contradictions, keeping everything consistent.

Obsidian is the IDE. The LLM is the programmer. The wiki is the codebase.

For the long version, read origin/llm-wiki.md (the original pattern) and origin/llm-wiki-v2.md (scaling extensions).

What you get

Four skills, each triggered by natural language:

Skill	Say something like…	What it does
wiki-bootstrap	"set up a new knowledge base here" · "build me a second brain" · "start a research vault"	Inspects the directory, interviews you about use case and domain, scaffolds raw/ + wiki/, writes a tailored CLAUDE.md schema, seeds index.md / log.md / overview.md, configures .obsidian/. One-shot per vault.
wiki-ingest	"ingest this" · "add this article" · "file this paper" · "process this meeting"	Reads one source, writes a summary page in wiki/sources/, updates entity & concept pages, updates the index, appends to the log. Flags contradictions; does not silently overwrite existing claims.
wiki-query	"what does the wiki say about X?" · "query the wiki" · "compare A and B from the vault"	Searches the wiki, synthesises an answer with wikilink citations, picks the right output format (prose, table, timeline, mermaid). Offers to file substantive answers as wiki/analysis/ pages so explorations compound.
wiki-lint	"lint the wiki" · "health check" · "clean up the wiki"	Runs seven checks: frontmatter drift, broken wikilinks, orphans, missing cross-references, contradictions, index freshness, overview staleness. Auto-fixes safe issues, flags the rest for you to decide.

All four skills read the vault's CLAUDE.md at runtime, so the process is plugin-level but the schema is per-vault — each vault's conventions, entity types, and page shapes travel with it.

Capabilities

• Any domain. Personal (goals, journal, self-improvement), research (topic deep-dives), book companions, business/team wikis, course notes, competitive analysis, trip planning — bootstrap interviews you and tailors the schema.
• Obsidian-native output. Wikilinks, callouts, YAML frontmatter, mermaid diagrams. Configured so Graph View and Dataview work out of the box.
• Confidence scoring. Every page carries a 0.0–1.0 confidence value; skills weigh older/newer claims and surface contradictions rather than overwriting.
• Chronological log. Append-only wiki/log.md is grep-parseable: grep "^## \[" wiki/log.md gives you the full timeline.
• Safe defaults. Bootstrap never overwrites silently; ingest never modifies raw/; lint never resolves contradictions unilaterally; nothing commits to git unless you ask.

Prerequisites

• Claude Code (CLI, IDE extension, or desktop).
• Obsidian for browsing the vault (optional — everything is plain markdown).

Install

Clone the repo once, then register it as a local marketplace in Claude Code.

# 1. Clone anywhere on your machine
git clone https://github.com/bmentges/knowledge-base-template ~/code/llm-wiki
cd ~/code/llm-wiki

Then, inside Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add ~/code/llm-wiki
/plugin install llm-wiki@llm-wiki

Verify the skills are loaded — start a fresh Claude Code session and run:

/plugin

You should see llm-wiki listed as installed, with four skills: wiki-bootstrap, wiki-ingest, wiki-query, wiki-lint.

Updating

cd ~/code/llm-wiki
git pull

Then in Claude Code: /plugin marketplace update llm-wiki.

Uninstall

/plugin uninstall llm-wiki@llm-wiki
/plugin marketplace remove llm-wiki

Fallback (if the plugin flow doesn't work yet)

The skills are plain markdown files and work as user-level skills too. Symlink them in:

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
for s in wiki-bootstrap wiki-ingest wiki-query wiki-lint; do
  ln -s ~/code/llm-wiki/skills/$s ~/.claude/skills/$s
done

Skills are then available in every Claude Code session, no plugin commands needed.

Use