create-llm-wiki

A CLI tool to scaffold LLM Wiki projects — a pattern by Andrej Karpathy where an LLM incrementally builds and maintains a persistent, interlinked wiki from your source documents.

What is LLM Wiki?

Unlike RAG (which re-retrieves from raw documents on every query), LLM Wiki compiles knowledge once into structured markdown files and keeps them current. Each new source ingested makes the wiki richer and more interconnected.

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  raw/          → Immutable source documents  │
│  wiki/         → LLM-generated wiki pages    │
│  CLAUDE.md     → Schema & workflow rules     │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Install

npm install -g create-llm-wiki

Quick Start

# Create a new wiki project
create-llm-wiki init my-wiki

# Navigate into the project
cd my-wiki

# Start ingesting sources with your preferred LLM coding agent
# e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, etc.
> ingest raw/my-article.md

What Gets Generated

Running create-llm-wiki init my-wiki creates the following structure:

my-wiki/
├── CLAUDE.md                              # Wiki schema (operations, templates, conventions)
├── README.md                              # Project overview
├── .gitignore
├── raw/                                   # Place your source documents here
├── wiki/                                  # LLM-maintained wiki pages
│   ├── index.md                           # Page index organized by category
│   ├── log.md                             # Append-only operation log
│   └── overview.md                        # Evolving knowledge synthesis
├── assets/                                # Images, diagrams, media
└── .obsidian/                             # Obsidian vault config (with Dataview plugin)

Three Operations

Once your wiki is set up, use your LLM coding agent to run these operations:

| Operation | Trigger | What it does | |---|---|---| | Ingest | ingest raw/file.md | Read source, write summary, update entities/concepts, cross-link pages | | Query | Ask any question | Search wiki, synthesize answer with citations, optionally save back | | Lint | lint | Health check — find broken links, orphan pages, missing cross-refs |

Browsing with Obsidian

Open the generated project folder as an Obsidian vault. The scaffolded config includes:

• Graph View for visualizing page relationships
• Dataview plugin for advanced queries like:

  TABLE summary, updated, tags
  FROM ""
  WHERE category = "concept"
  SORT updated DESC

CLI Reference

Usage: create-llm-wiki [options] [command]

Commands:
  init <name>     Create a new LLM Wiki project
  help [command]  Display help for command

Options:
  -V, --version   Output the version number
  -h, --help      Display help

Requirements

• Node.js >= 18
• Git (optional, for automatic repo initialization)
• An LLM coding agent for wiki maintenance (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, etc.)
• Obsidian (recommended, for browsing)

Credits

Based on the LLM Wiki pattern by Andrej Karpathy.

License

MIT