create-wiki-kit

CLI to scaffold a wiki-kit project.

Quick Start

npx create-wiki-kit my-wiki
cd my-wiki

This clones the wiki-kit template, applies the selected locale, and leaves a ready-to-use project.

Prerequisites

• Node.js 20+
• git

Usage

npx create-wiki-kit [project-name] [options]

project-name defaults to wiki-kit if omitted. Use . to scaffold into the current directory.

# New directory
npx create-wiki-kit my-wiki

# Current directory
mkdir my-wiki && cd my-wiki
npx create-wiki-kit .

# Existing directory (must contain only safe files)
cd my-repo
npx create-wiki-kit .

# Japanese locale
npx create-wiki-kit my-wiki --locale ja

If the target directory already exists, it must contain only safe files (.git, .gitignore, LICENSE, README.md, etc.). Any other files are treated as conflicts and the command exits with an error listing them.

Options

| Option | Description | |---|---| | --locale <code> | Language for all generated files. Default: en | | --template-path <path> | Copy from a local template directory instead of fetching from GitHub | | --template-ref <ref> | Git ref to fetch from the remote template repository | | -h, --help | Show help | | -v, --version | Show version |

Locales

14 languages are supported. The --locale option determines the language of CLAUDE.md, templates, wiki scaffolding, and all README files.

| Code | Language | Code | Language | |------|------------|------|------------| | de | German | ko | Korean | | en | English | pt | Portuguese | | es | Spanish | ru | Russian | | fr | French | th | Thai | | id | Indonesian | tr | Turkish | | it | Italian | vi | Vietnamese | | ja | Japanese | zh | Chinese |

What It Does

1. Fetches the template from wiki-kit-template
2. Applies the selected locale (overwrites root files from locales/<code>/, then removes locales/)
3. Removes git history and .gitkeep files

Local Development

Test with a local clone of wiki-kit-template before pushing:

node index.js my-wiki --template-path ../wiki-kit-template

Override the fetch ref if needed:

node index.js my-wiki --template-ref <commit-sha>

Template

• Repository: https://github.com/haya-inc/wiki-kit-template
• Pinned ref: 9b73c2ba532da876690bf43af3c05f80b59c62d0

Inspiration

wiki-kit is based on the LLM Wiki pattern by Andrej Karpathy — a design where an LLM incrementally builds and maintains a structured wiki from raw sources, rather than retrieving documents at query time.

Release

• GitHub Release tags must match the version in package.json. A v prefix is allowed.
• Prereleases are published under the next dist-tag on npm; only stable releases go to latest.