LLM Wiki — LLM-compiled knowledge bases for any AI agent

1. Install the plugin

claude plugin install wiki@llm-wiki

2. Create a topic wiki

Pick any topic you're curious about:

/wiki init nutrition

This creates a hub at ~/wiki/ and your first topic wiki at ~/wiki/topics/nutrition/.

3. Research it

/wiki:research "gut microbiome and mental health" --wiki nutrition
# or just say it naturally:
/wiki research gut microbiome and mental health

Five parallel agents search the web from different angles (academic, technical, applied, news, contrarian), ingest the best sources, and compile them into cross-referenced wiki articles. Takes 2-5 minutes.

4. Ask your wiki a question

/wiki:query "how does fiber affect mood?" --wiki nutrition
# or naturally:
/wiki how does fiber affect mood?

The wiki answers from its compiled articles with citations.

What to do next:

• /wiki:research "topic" --deep — 8 agents instead of 5, adds historical and data angles
• /wiki:research "topic" --min-time 1h — keep researching in rounds for an hour
• /wiki:research "topic" --plan — decompose into parallel research paths
• /wiki add https://example.com/article — fuzzy router detects the URL and ingests it
• /wiki what do we know about CRISPR? — fuzzy router detects the question and queries
• /wiki:lint --fix — clean up any structural issues

A typical research session flows through four stages:

Stage 1: Ask a question or pick a topic

llm-wiki auto-detects whether you're asking a question or naming a topic. Use the direct command or the fuzzy router:

/wiki:research "What makes long-form articles go viral?"   # direct command
/wiki research quantum computing                            # fuzzy router — same result
/wiki:research --mode thesis "fiber reduces neuroinflammation via SCFAs"  # thesis → for/against evidence

Stage 2: Agents search in parallel

5 agents (8 with --deep, 10 with --retardmax) search simultaneously from different angles — 2-3 web searches each, full-content fetch, quality scoring (1-5). A credibility pass deduplicates before ingestion.

Stage 3: Sources are ingested and compiled

Top sources are saved to raw/ (immutable — never modified after ingestion). Then the compilation pass synthesizes them into wiki articles under wiki/concepts/, wiki/topics/, and wiki/references/ with cross-references, confidence scores, and bidirectional links.

Stage 4: Gap report and follow-up

After each round, you see what's covered, what's still missing, and suggested follow-ups. If 2+ gaps remain, you're offered to close them in parallel:

### Close gaps?
1. Dose-response curves for wavelength specificity
2. Long-term safety data for daily exposure
3. Device comparison (clinical vs consumer panels)

Enter numbers (e.g. 1,2,4), "all", or "skip":

Multi-round research: Add --min-time 2h to keep researching in rounds, each drilling into gaps the previous round found. Add --plan to decompose into parallel paths upfront.

The hub (~/wiki/) is just a registry. No content — only wikis.json, _index.md, and log.md. All content lives in topic sub-wikis.

Topic wikis (~/wiki/topics/<name>/) are isolated research areas. Each has its own sources, articles, outputs, and Obsidian vault config. Isolation means researching quantum computing can't pollute your nutrition wiki.

Raw sources (raw/) are immutable. Once a paper, article, or data file is ingested, it's never modified. This is the audit trail — every claim in every article traces back to a source.

Wiki articles (wiki/) are LLM-compiled syntheses organized into three categories:

• Concepts — foundational ideas, mechanisms, theories
• Topics — specific subjects, comparisons, state-of-the-field
• References — tools, frameworks, data tables, lookup resources

Articles use dual-link format: [[wikilink]] for Obsidian + standard markdown links for everything else. Confidence scores (high/medium/low) reflect source quality and corroboration.

Indexes (_index.md) exist in every directory. They're derived caches — rebuilt automatically from file frontmatter. The agent reads indexes first and never scans blindly.

Outputs (output/) are generated artifacts: reports, slide outlines, study guides, implementation plans. They're built from wiki articles, so every output compounds on all prior research.

For broad topics, --plan decomposes your research into independent paths and runs them all in parallel:

/wiki:research "red light therapy" --plan --wiki redlight-therapy
# or naturally:
/wiki research red light therapy --plan

The agent generates a research plan and asks for confirmation:

## Research Plan — red light therapy

### Paths (will run in parallel)

1. **Mechanisms** — cytochrome c oxidase, wavelength specificity, dose-response
2. **Clinical evidence** — RCTs for skin, joints, wounds, cognition
3. **Devices** — LED vs laser, panel sizing, FDA clearances
4. **Criticisms** — placebo effects, publication bias, safety concerns

### Estimated: 4 paths x 5 agents = 20 parallel agents

Proceed? (y/n/edit)

On confirmation, all paths launch simultaneously. Each path runs its own 5-agent swarm. Sources are ingested in parallel (each path writes unique files), then a single compilation pass sees all sources at once for cross-path synthesis.

After the first round, a gap report shows what's still missing. Pick which gaps to close — they launch as another parallel batch:

### Close gaps?
1. Dose-response curves for wavelength specificity
2. Long-term safety data for daily exposure
3. Device comparison (clinical vs consumer)

Enter numbers (e.g. 1,2,4), "all", or "skip":

Combine with other flags:

• --plan --deep — 8 agents per path instead of 5
• --plan --min-time 2h — multiple plan-dispatch-compile cycles over 2 hours
• --plan --new-topic — create the wiki and research in one shot

Once your wiki has compiled articles, generate deliverables from them:

/wiki:output report --topic gut-brain --wiki nutrition
# or naturally:
/wiki write a report on gut-brain axis

Output types:

• summary — concise overview of a topic or the entire wiki
• report — detailed analysis with citations and evidence
• study-guide — structured learning material with key concepts and review questions
• slides — slide deck outline with speaker notes
• timeline — chronological view of events and developments
• glossary — term definitions extracted from articles
• comparison — side-by-side analysis of two or more subjects

Outputs are saved to output/ inside the topic wiki and indexed automatically. Every output builds on all compiled articles, so the more you research, the stronger every output gets.

Retardmax mode works here too — /wiki:output report --retardmax ships a rough draft immediately. Iterate later.

Cross-wiki context: Use --with to pull knowledge from another wiki into your output:

/wiki:output report --wiki nutrition --with article-writing
# Uses nutrition content + article-writing craft knowledge

Projects: Group related outputs into project folders with goals:

/wiki:project new rebuild-blog "Rewrite the company blog using wiki research"
/wiki:output report --topic gut-brain --project rebuild-blog

The output lands in output/projects/rebuild-blog/ with a WHY.md that captures the goal. Future outputs with the same --project flag accumulate there.

Research sessions fetch many URLs. By default, Claude Code asks for approval on each one. To skip these prompts, add WebFetch and WebSearch to your project's allow list:

In .claude/settings.local.json:

{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "WebFetch",
      "WebSearch"
    ]
  }
}

This pre-approves all web fetches and searches. You can also allow specific domains only: WebFetch(domain:arxiv.org).

If you prefer per-session approval, choose "Always allow" when Claude asks about the first URL — that covers the rest of the session.

LLM Wiki is a set of commands and a knowledge model that turns any LLM agent into a research engine and an append-only, Markdown-native wiki. It runs parallel multi-agent research, ingests URLs and files, compiles raw sources into synthesized articles with cross-references, answers questions against the compiled knowledge, and generates artifacts like reports, slides, study guides, and implementation plans.

Inspired by Andrej Karpathy's LLM wiki concept.

Four install modes: Claude Code (native plugin via the llm-wiki marketplace), OpenAI Codex (repo-local plugin at plugins/llm-wiki/), OpenCode (instruction file via opencode.json), and any other LLM agent via the portable AGENTS.md file.

The behavioral logic lives in a single wiki-manager skill shared across runtimes — Codex and OpenCode trees symlink into the Claude source of truth so there is no fork. Drift is caught by self-healing sync tests.

By default in ~/wiki/ on your machine. You can relocate the hub to iCloud Drive, Dropbox, or any custom path:

/wiki config hub-path ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/wiki

Config lives at ~/.config/llm-wiki/config.json and caches a pre-computed resolved_path, so tilde expansion runs at most once. A ~/wiki symlink to the resolved path makes resolution instant — recommended if your hub is on iCloud.

Yes. Each topic wiki ships with its own .obsidian/ vault config and can be opened as an independent vault:

open ~/wiki/topics/nutrition/

Cross-references use a dual-link format:

[[gut-brain-axis|Gut-Brain Axis]] ([Gut-Brain Axis](../concepts/gut-brain-axis.md))

Obsidian reads the wikilink for graph view and backlinks; everything else (Claude Code, GitHub, plain text editors) follows the standard markdown link.

A research mode inspired by Elisha Long's retardmaxxing philosophy — act first, think later. Ten parallel agents, skip planning, cast the widest net, ingest aggressively, compile fast, lint later.

Available on /wiki:research --retardmax and /wiki:output --retardmax for when you want results now and will clean up afterward.

/wiki:research --mode thesis "<claim>" starts from a specific claim and uses it as a filter. Agents are split across supporting, opposing, mechanistic, meta/review, and adjacent — balanced by design.

Sources that don't relate to the claim's variables are skipped, which keeps the wiki tight. Output is a verdict: supported, partially supported, contradicted, insufficient evidence, or mixed.

With --min-time, round two focuses harder on the weaker side of the evidence — counter-weight against confirmation bias.

Yes. LLM Wiki is MIT-licensed. Source and releases at github.com/nvk/llm-wiki.

Zero runtime dependencies. LLM Wiki uses only the built-in tools of the host agent (file read/write, web fetch, web search). The plugin itself is Markdown: command definitions, skills, and reference docs.

Optional: ask-grok-mcp for best-in-class tweet ingestion, tobi/qmd for local search beyond ~100 articles.

Claude Code: claude plugin update wiki@llm-wiki and restart.

Codex: git -C ~/llm-wiki pull and reinstall from the local marketplace.

AGENTS.md: re-curl from the master branch to replace your file.

See Install for the manual sync fallback when the plugin updater hits stale cache.