create-wiki

Create Wiki

Set up a persistent, LLM-maintained knowledge base inside a project following Andrej Karpathy's LLM Wiki pattern. The wiki uses a three-layer architecture:

• Sources (wiki/sources/) — Human-curated raw documents. Immutable. Claude reads but never modifies.
• Pages (wiki/pages/) — LLM-generated markdown pages. Claude owns these entirely — creates, updates, deletes as needed.
• Schema (wiki/schema.yaml) — Configuration defining categories, conventions, and maintenance thresholds. Co-evolves with use.

The key insight: the tedious part of maintaining a knowledge base is not the reading or thinking — it's the bookkeeping. LLMs excel at updating cross-references and maintaining consistency across dozens of pages without fatigue. Humans curate sources and ask questions. Claude handles everything else.

Input

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS

Supported arguments:

• init — Full initialization: discover project context, create wiki structure, seed pages, inject CLAUDE.md rules
• status — Show wiki health (redirects to /wiki status)
• No arguments — Same as init if no wiki exists, same as status if one does

Phase 0: Self-Invocation Confirmation

This skill can be model-invoked, and initialization writes a wiki/ tree and injects maintenance rules into CLAUDE.md that change how Claude behaves for the rest of the project's life. That must never happen unasked.

If you are invoking this skill on your own initiative — because the project is accumulating domain knowledge, context keeps getting lost between sessions, or the user said "I keep forgetting how this works" — rather than the user typing /create-wiki, confirm first with AskUserQuestion:

{
  "questions": [
    {
      "question": "Set up an LLM-maintained wiki for this project?",
      "header": "Wiki",
      "multiSelect": false,
      "options": [
        {
          "label": "Yes, initialize it",
          "description": "Creates wiki/ with sources, pages, schema, and index, seeds pages from project discovery, and adds maintenance rules to CLAUDE.md"
        },
        {
          "label": "No, not now",
          "description": "Nothing is written; you can run /create-wiki yourself at any time"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}