LLM Wikis

An LLM wiki is an agent-maintained markdown knowledge base where durable knowledge is compiled into linked pages instead of repeatedly rediscovered by retrieval. The Karpathy gist in this batch is the seed source for this wiki’s operating pattern: preserve raw sources, synthesize them into pages, keep an index, and use wikilinks to make prior synthesis reusable.

Research interest

The research angle is that a wiki is a persistent external memory with human-auditable structure, not just a retrieval corpus. It raises testable questions about whether agents improve when knowledge is compiled into linked, maintained artifacts instead of retrieved from raw sources at query time.

Why it matters

Compared with ad hoc notes or pure RAG, the wiki pattern emphasizes compounding structure: new sources update existing pages, contradictions are made explicit, and useful query answers can be filed back into the knowledge base.

Related

• agent-skills for a similar idea applied to reusable agent capabilities.
• local-ai-benchmarks as an example area where compiled results can become more useful over time.