LLM Wiki Monorepo

Agent-native knowledge compiler.
AI agents turn raw documents into persistent, cross-linked Markdown wikis.
No database. No API lock-in. One git clone.

What • Features • Quick Start • Architecture • Packages • Templates • Docs • Credits • License

pip install baissarienterprises-llm-wiki

No local models required. LLM Wiki is agent-native: the intelligence comes from the agent you already run (Codex, Hermes, Claude, OpenCode). The base install is lexical/keyword-only and performs no model downloads. Optional extras for local computation remain opt-in and are not part of the supported default story.

What's New in v0.6.4 — "Lean & Certified"

Local-model surface removed. The unused @sentropic/graphify hard dependency is gone (with its 239-package / ~606 MiB closure: @ai-sdk/*, Ollama provider, tree-sitters, DB drivers), along with the --code-analysis/merged/export-graph code paths and the web code-graph route (ADR-0035). The knowledge graph is fully offline and wikilink-derived. Optional Python extras remain opt-in and are no longer promoted as a recommended profile.

Provenance closed. graph-engine/src/relevance.ts and insights.ts were independently reimplemented as clean-room MIT code with behavior parity verified against the previous implementation; the provenance ledger now reflects this.

Packaging fixed. install.sh now installs the Python package (the llm-wiki console script actually exists afterwards), and wheels ship all 20 domain templates plus py.typed. scaffold resolves package-internal templates first, so pip-installed wikis are no longer silently generic.

Integrity hardened. Lock acquisition is race-free (O_EXCL + owner token + rename-based stale break), page writes are atomic, backups are temp+rename with sha256 verification and staged restore, malformed tuning.toml yields a clean config error, hybrid search honors --set bm25.*, and no-provider ask fails with an actionable message instead of a silent null.

Release gates are real. The version manifest is green, docs_truth_check scans the live docs, the certifier's gates exit nonzero on failure, the zero-test guard covers all workspaces, a slow-tests lane runs, coverage is floored at 70%, and publishing is gated on certification.

What's New in v0.6.2

Install.sh completeness. install.sh now builds all packages in dependency order: graph-bridge → graph-engine → mcp-server → audit-shared → web-viewer → obsidian-audit. Previously graph-bridge was missing, causing graph-engine imports to fail.

Template scaffolding fix. scaffold.py now handles both array and dict extra-dirs.json formats — 7 templates (business, commodities, decompilers, developer-tools, medicine, personal-growth, reading) previously created wrong directories.

Developer hygiene. .hermes/ added to .gitignore to prevent accidental commits of local skill config.

What's New in v0.6.0 — "Epistemic & Surface"

One-command setup. llm-wiki setup <root> [--title] scaffolds/validates a wiki and registers the MCP server with every detected client — claude, codex, opencode, hermes — idempotently, with --dry-run/--uninstall and a health + tools/list smoke test (LWM_035).

Ask this wiki. llm-wiki ask <root> "<question>" answers questions grounded in the wiki — hybrid retrieval over pages + community summaries with a summary-aware rerank, exactly one structured LLM call on the agent-native $0.00 default, a --no-llm deterministic offline mode, and a faithfulness contract (answer entities ⊆ cited pages). MCP llm_wiki_ask included (LWM_033).

Contradictions + evidence confidence. llm-wiki contradictions <root> detect|list|apply|unapply extracts typed claims, detects contradictions (unit-normalized numerics, polarity, exclusive categories) suggest-only, and computes evidence-grounded confidence (high/medium/low + evidence_score) into the confidence/contested/contradictions frontmatter fields — author-overridable via confidence_source: evidence|author (LWM_034).

Demo wiki. llm-wiki demo <dest> materializes a committed, lint-clean "Redis Internals" playground (8 pages) from the installed package or repo, in one command (LWM_036).

Optional local-compute extras (legacy, not required): [semantic], [leiden], [entity-resolution], and [ner] remain available for advanced local computation but are deliberately outside the supported default story — the base install and the agent-native $0.00 path cover every core operation (LWM_037).

Web-viewer derived overlay + Sigma.js + exports. The quarantined derived layer renders as an off-by-default dashed overlay (byte-identical when off), with a Sigma.js WebGL view and JSON Canvas / JSON-LD exports — web-viewer-only diff, no backend change (LWM_038).

Standing gold-set curation. scripts/curate_gold_set.py + a release-certify gate_search_goldset_fresh gate make per-minor gold-set growth a procedure, not a decision (LWM_039 §A).

What's New in v0.5.0 — "Graph Precision"

Entity resolution. llm-wiki entities resolve|list|unmerge collapses variant surface forms ("GPT-4" / "GPT 4" / "gpt-4") into one canonical id through a reversible canonical↔alias table (JSONL source of truth + additive SQLite alias tables). Every merge is reversible; no page prose is ever rewritten. ER-F1 on a committed gold set gates it (ADR-0024).

Leiden community detection. Optional [leiden] sidecar (graspologic) with hierarchical levels — guaranteed-connected communities, NMI/modularity verification against Louvain, TS still only consumes (no TS Leiden, ADR-0025).

Typed + directed + bitemporal edges. One additive edge-schema evolution (relType/directed/validFrom/validTo/observedAt) — the undirected default output is byte-identical (ADR-0026).

Derived edges, quarantined. The graph discovers similarity + co-occurrence edges into a separate layer, excluded from all analytics by default and included only when the NMI+modularity gate passes (fail-closed, ADR-0027).

Hierarchical community summaries. llm-wiki summarize-communities writes first-class community-summary pages per community level + a global summary, with faithfulness filtering and stale-page cleanup (LWM_030).

Tuning constants → config. Every precision constant (relevance weights + type-affinity matrix, insights thresholds + signal scores, community resolution/seed, RRF k, BM25 k1/b, claim penalties — 52 settable keys) lives in one canonical TuningConfig surfaced by llm-wiki tuning with CLI > env > file > default precedence, emitted to the graph-engine via --tuning-json (ADR-0028).

Hybrid search is the default. Search fuses BM25 + semantic KNN via RRF by default, degrades to keyword byte-identically without the [semantic] extra, and keeps --keyword as the escape hatch — certified by a committed search gold set + gate (ADR-0020).

What is this?

LLM Wiki is a production-grade knowledge engine that turns raw documents into a living, cross-linked Markdown wiki. Instead of re-retrieving documents on every query (RAG), the system incrementally builds and maintains a persistent knowledge base. Sources are compiled once, kept current, and compound over time.

It's everything needed to run a self-building wiki in one monorepo: a Python CLI package, an MCP server, a knowledge graph engine with community detection, a Chrome web clipper, a web viewer, an Obsidian plugin, and 20 domain templates — wired through an agent skill that works with any LLM.

Five ways to run this

One repo, five entry surfaces — all reading and writing the same wiki/ directory. Pick the one that fits your setup.

1. CLI (Python package)

pip install baissarienterprises-llm-wiki
llm-wiki search ~/my-wiki "attention"

Scripts, CI, and humans get the full command surface — run llm-wiki <command> --help to explore. See the CLI reference.

2. MCP server (any MCP client)

npx llm-wiki-mcp --wiki ~/my-wiki
claude mcp add llm-wiki -- npx llm-wiki-mcp --wiki ~/my-wiki

Programmatic wiki access for any MCP client (Claude, Codex, Cursor, opencode) via 15 stdio tools. Register it with claude mcp add, the opencode opencode.json mcp form, or llm-wiki setup (one-command wiring, v0.6.0). Requires a built mcp-server: cd mcp-server && npm run build (or bash install.sh). See the MCP tools reference.

3. Hermes skill (in-conversation agent workflow)

ln -sf /path/to/llm-wiki-monorepo/skill ~/.hermes/skills/research/llm-wiki

Loads the ten-operation skill for Claude/Hermes sessions — agent-native, no API keys needed. See skill/SKILL.md.

4. Cron / automation

0 3 * * * cd ~/wikis/my-project && llm-wiki ingest raw/ --provider opencode

Schedule maintenance like ingest, lint, or backup. portalocker advisory locks make concurrent agent runs safe — multiple agents or CI jobs can operate on the same wiki without corrupting pages. See the concurrency reference and the quickstart.

5. MCP server launcher (stdio)

llm-wiki serve ~/my-wiki

Relay the MCP server over stdio (with --build to compile it on demand and --projects for multi-wiki mode). MCP clients normally launch npx llm-wiki-mcp --wiki <root> directly — see section 2 above. The optional web preview (mermaid, KaTeX, audit feedback) is the separate web-viewer server: cd web-viewer && npm start -- --wiki ~/my-wiki. It is local-only by default — see the security boundary.

Features

• Two-Step Ingest — LLM analyzes sources first, then generates structured wiki pages. SHA256 caching skips unchanged files. Streaming progress, multi-provider support (OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek), and agent-native mode that needs zero API keys.

• Agent-Native Provider — route ingest through Hermes, Claude Code, or Codex directly. No external API keys required when running inside an AI agent session.

• Structured Output — Pydantic-typed parsing via instructor. No regex guesswork. Retry with exponential backoff on transient failures. Token counting and cost estimation per operation.

• Concurrency Control — per-page advisory locking, atomic writes (temp → fsync → rename), SHA256 conflict detection, and three-tier conflict management with automatic cleanup. Multiple agents can safely operate on the same wiki.

• Knowledge Graph Engine — Louvain community detection with full Blondel et al. modularity. 4-signal relevance model with precomputed adjacency. Surprising connection discovery and knowledge gap detection. Pure Python fallback included.

• 15-Pass Automated Lint — dead links, orphans, frontmatter validation, contradictions, source drift, unresolved conflicts, and stale page detection when raw sources change.

• SQLite FTS5 Search — full-text search with SHA256 freshness detection. Pre-builds at startup, incremental updates, BM25 fallback. Rebuild with --rebuild.

• Inverted Entity Index — dual-map entity→pages + page→entities for O(1) link suggestions. 4-signal scoring with automatic wikilink insertion. Reversible entity resolution (canonical↔alias) collapses duplicate surface forms.

• MCP Server — 15 stdio tools for programmatic wiki access. Direct Python sidecar with zero subprocess overhead. Integrates with Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible client.

• Hybrid Search (default) — BM25 + semantic vector KNN fused via RRF with a --keyword escape hatch; degrades to keyword byte-identically without the [semantic] extra. Gold-set gate certifies no keyword regression.

• Tuning Config Surface — llm-wiki tuning exposes every precision constant (relevance weights + type-affinity matrix, insights signal scores, community resolution/seed, RRF k, BM25 k1/b, claim penalties) with CLI > env > file > default precedence and a --emit boundary for the graph-engine.

• Community Verification Suite — NMI/ARI cross-validation across 5 seeds, statistical similarity metrics, modularity tolerance within 1% relative error. Optional Leiden engine with hierarchical levels (graspologic, [leiden] extra).

• Derived-Edge Layer — similarity + co-occurrence edges the graph discovers into a separate quarantined layer, excluded from analytics by default and NMI+modularity-gated on inclusion (fail-closed).

• Hierarchical Community Summaries — opt-in LLM summaries per community level + global summary as first-class generated pages, with faithfulness filtering and orphan cleanup.

• Backup & Recovery — tar.gz snapshots with restore, integrity verification, and automatic pruning. One-command --auto for safe state.

• 20 Domain Templates — research, codebase, finance, machine learning, cybersecurity, medicine, algorithmic trading, and more. Every template ships with PURPOSE.md, SCHEMA.md → CLAUDE.md, and extra-dirs.json.

• Deep Research — web search → fetch → ingest → synthesize. Multi-source compilation into structured wiki pages.

• Chrome Web Clipper — one-click web page capture with Readability + Turndown; downloads clean markdown for manual llm-wiki ingest.

• Claim & Epistemic Tracking — optional sidecar model: claims, epistemic events (created/reinforced/challenged/weakened/superseded/resolved), and contradiction records with JSONL storage. Health reports and diffs between wiki states.

• Modular Architecture — the package ships 14 subpackages under src/llm_wiki/: core/ (primitives), quality/{claims,lint,audit}/, ingest/ (pipeline), providers/ (LLM adapters), graph/ (louvain, insights, suggestions, entities, ask), search/ (FTS5), semantic/ (optional embeddings), eval/ (gold-set gates), setup/ (client wiring), ops/ (health, serve, benchmark), wiki/ (scaffold, backup, demo), research/ (deep-research), contracts/ (schema validation), and templates/ (wheel template data). The MCP server is split from a 1,287-line monolith into 32 focused TypeScript files.

• CI/CD Pipeline — pytest + vitest matrix across Python 3.10–3.12 and Node 18–22, coverage reporting, trusted OIDC publishing to PyPI on tag push.

Quick Start

# Install from PyPI
pip install baissarienterprises-llm-wiki

# Or install the full repo from source — pip-installs the Python package
# (installing the `llm-wiki` console script), builds the TypeScript
# surfaces, and validates the CLI.
git clone https://github.com/JeanBaissari/llm-wiki-monorepo.git
cd llm-wiki-monorepo
bash install.sh

# Scaffold a wiki
llm-wiki scaffold ~/my-wiki "My Research" --template research

# Ingest a source (two-step agent loop)
llm-wiki ingest ~/my-wiki raw/articles/my-source.md

# Use agent-native provider (no API keys — inside Hermes/Claude Code/Codex)
llm-wiki ingest ~/my-wiki raw/articles/my-source.md --llm opencode

# Check quality (15 automated checks; --json for machine output)
llm-wiki lint ~/my-wiki

# Build search index
llm-wiki index ~/my-wiki

# Discover hidden connections
llm-wiki insights ~/my-wiki

# Health check
llm-wiki health ~/my-wiki

# Claim tracking (optional sidecar)
llm-wiki claims health ~/my-wiki

# Start the MCP server (15 tools via stdio)
npx llm-wiki-mcp --wiki ~/my-wiki

# Or run the opt-in local web preview (mermaid, KaTeX, audit feedback)
cd web-viewer && npm start -- --wiki ~/my-wiki

Architecture

wiki/ directory  ← shared state (Markdown files)
     │
     ├── Agent Skill + Python Scripts   → 20+ scripts: scaffold, ingest, lint,
     │                                     discover, insights, backup, link-suggest,
     │                                     deep-research, audit, benchmark, serve
     ├── Python Package (src/llm_wiki/)  → modular: core/ (primitives),
     │   ├── core/                       quality/ (claims, lint, audit),
     │   ├── quality/                    ingest/ (pipeline), providers/,
     │   ├── ingest/ + providers/        graph/ (louvain, insights),
     │   ├── graph/ + search/            search/ (FTS5), ops/ (health, serve),
     │   ├── ops/ + wiki/ + research/    wiki/ (scaffold, backup),
     │   └── contracts/                  research/ (deep-research)
     ├── MCP Server (stdio)              → 15 tools, modular: tools/,
     │                                     adapters/, projects/, security/
     ├── Graph Engine (Node.js)          → relevance model, Louvain, insights
     ├── shared-types (TS)               → canonical GraphNode/GraphEdge types
     ├── Web Viewer + Obsidian Plugin    → human browsing + feedback
     ├── Browser Extension               → web clipping
     └── src/llm_wiki/templates/        → 20 domain schemas

Packages

Templates (20 domains)

research codebase finance algorithmic-trading algorithmic-trading-mql4 cybersecurity machine-learning prompt-engineering copywriting marketing design-systems architecture crypto commodities decompilers medicine developer-tools personal-growth reading business

Templates live in src/llm_wiki/templates/ — a single canonical package-internal tree (also shipped in the wheel).

Every template provides: PURPOSE.md (scope + goals), SCHEMA.md → CLAUDE.md (page types, conventions, frontmatter, cross-referencing, contradiction handling), extra-dirs.json (domain directories).

Documentation

Requirements

• Python 3.10+ — for all skill scripts and PyPI package
• Node.js 18+ — for MCP server, graph engine, web viewer
• npm — for TypeScript package management
• pip dependencies — openai, anthropic, litellm, instructor, tenacity, pydantic, portalocker, tomli (Python 3.10 only) (auto-installed via pip install)

Credits

Inspirations

The foundational methodology is inspired by Andrej Karpathy's llm-wiki pattern (MIT) — using LLMs to incrementally build and maintain a personal wiki from raw sources. This project is an independent, production-grade implementation with concurrency control, multi-provider LLM support, FTS5 search, MCP integration, and community detection. No code from Karpathy's gist is used.

Additional design patterns and API methodology were informed by nashsu/llm_wiki (GPL-3.0) and nashsu/llm_wiki_skill (GPL-3.0). Concepts from anzal1/quicky-wiki (MIT) influenced linting and claim-management design.

Code Derivations

• graph-engine/src/relevance.ts — 4-signal relevance model with configurable weights, source indexing, and type-safe interfaces. Independently reimplemented as clean-room MIT code in v0.6.4. See docs/legal/provenance.md.
• graph-engine/src/insights.ts — Surprising connection detection and knowledge gap discovery with extensible signal registry. Independently reimplemented as clean-room MIT code in v0.6.4. See docs/legal/provenance.md.
• graph-engine/src/louvain.ts — Implements the Louvain community detection algorithm (Blondel et al. 2008) via the MIT-licensed graphology-communities-louvain library.

Related Projects

• nashsu/llm_wiki — Cross-platform Tauri desktop app with graph visualization, vector search, and rich chat interface. Licensed GPL-3.0.
• anzal1/quicky-wiki — MIT-licensed CLI/dashboard for claim extraction, confidence scoring, and metabolism.

Upstream License Notice

This project was inspired by concepts from GPL-3.0-licensed upstream projects. Code previously derived from nashsu/llm_wiki was independently reimplemented as clean-room MIT code in v0.6.4 (graph-engine/src/relevance.ts, graph-engine/src/insights.ts) with behavior parity verified against the prior implementation. See docs/legal/provenance.md for the full provenance ledger.

License

MIT