overview
a personal wiki where i drop sources — articles, papers, course notes, screenshots, github repos — and an llm agent (claude code) ingests them into a structured, cross-linked knowledge base.
the shape was inspired by andrej karpathy's flat-note method: no deep folder hierarchies, every page does one thing, links are how structure emerges.
the three layers
raw/— immutable source documents. articles, pdfs, transcripts, repo stubs. read-only..cache/— disposable working area. cloned repos land here. safe to nuke.wiki/— everything the agent writes. sources, entities, concepts, syntheses, an index, and a chronological log.
every page starts with frontmatter (title, type, created/updated dates, source citations). cross-links are obsidian-style: [[entities/some-person]], [[concepts/some-idea]]. claims are cited inline back to the source page that introduced them, so the chain stays auditable.
how it works in practice
i drop a source in raw/. i ask claude code to ingest it. it reads the full document, discusses key takeaways with me, writes a summary page, creates or updates the entity and concept pages mentioned, cross-links everything, updates the index, and appends to the log.
the same flow handles github repos via stubs — a small file in raw/repos/ points at a url and a focus area, and the agent clones, surveys, and produces wiki pages bounded by that focus.
the whole thing is version-controlled in a private github repo and syncs between devices over PAT auth.
why i built it
two reasons.
the first is that i retain things better when i have to read them once, decide what's worth keeping, and watch a structured artefact accrete over time. the second is that an llm with a persistent, citation-linked memory is genuinely more useful than one without — every conversation can pull from everything i've ever filed, and every new ingest enriches the answers to questions i haven't asked yet.
the whole portfolio you're reading is partly the output of this system. the project descriptions on this site reference wiki pages that reference source repos that reference course material i worked through over the last two years. the chain holds.