quarry-kb 0.2.2

A config-driven knowledge-ingestion harness — the deterministic half of turning a source into a linked wiki article.

Quarry

A config-driven knowledge-ingestion harness — a CLI that owns the deterministic half of turning a source (a YouTube video, a web page, …) into a linked article in a markdown knowledge wiki.

Quarry resolves a source adapter, fetches, writes immutable raw material, hands a machine-readable compile-spec to an LLM (or human) for the one irreducibly-generative step — writing the article — then verifies provenance, lints, and commits. It never calls a model, so it is runnable and testable without API keys.

You extract raw material from the world and refine it into something structured. That is the pipeline, and the name.

Why

The deterministic mechanics of disciplined knowledge ingestion — fetch, immutable raw, a verifiable manifest, provenance checking, structural lint, semantic link discovery — are worth doing the same way every time. Quarry packages exactly that machinery and nothing else: it is not an LLM wrapper, not a note-taking app, and not opinionated about your wiki's shape. Every convention is configuration.

Install

pip install quarry-kb[all]          # all shipped adapters
pip install quarry-kb               # core only (PyYAML); add adapters as extras

Adapters (each an extra): youtube (transcript + Whisper fallback), web, reddit (stdlib), github (gitingest), pdf (PyMuPDF4LLM + OCR), instagram (best-effort), plus whisper for local audio transcription. Adapters extract raw content deterministically — no LLM, no API key.

Installed as quarry-kb on PyPI (the bare name was taken); the command and import are both quarry.

Requires Python 3.11+.

60-second quickstart

cd your-wiki-repo
quarry init                  # scaffold a documented quarry.toml + gitignore .quarry/
# edit quarry.toml to match your wiki's conventions

quarry ingest <url>          # fetch -> raw/ + compile-manifest, then STOP
# ...now write the wiki article using the printed compile-spec...
quarry finish <slug>         # verify provenance -> lint -> commit (no push unless --push)

Other commands: quarry lint, quarry adapters, quarry related <article>, quarry densify [--apply], quarry doctor.

The two-call seam is deliberate: ingest and finish are separate processes, and the generative step (writing the article) happens between them — done by you or your agent, never by Quarry.

Configuration reference

Quarry is configured by a quarry.toml discovered by walking up from the current directory (a [tool.quarry] table in pyproject.toml is a fallback). quarry init writes a fully-commented default. Tables:

Table	Key	Purpose
[store]	wiki, raw, manifest_dir	directories (relative to the store root)
	raw_layout	raw path template; tokens: {year} {month} {date} {slug} {kebab_title} {ext} {topic} {source_id}
	root	explicit store root (defaults to the dir containing quarry.toml)
[frontmatter]	required, sources_field, related_field	article frontmatter schema
[ingest]	default_ext, slug, on_duplicate	slug template; on_duplicate = refuse | warn | allow
[adapters]	enabled	allowlist of adapters to run
[discovery]	backend, mode, collection, dedup_threshold, densify_topk	semantic-link backend (qmd or none)
[lint]	broken_links, require_sources_on_disk, orphan_check, index_file, fail_on	which checks run and which fail the build
[finish]	run_lint, auto_push, commit_template	finish behaviour

See examples/quarry.toml for the annotated default.

Authoring an adapter

A new source type is one small adapter discoverable via the quarry.adapters entry-point group — no fork. See CONTRIBUTING.md for the contract, the hermetic-test requirement, and a worked pdf example.

Status

Pre-1.0, but feature-complete for v1 and fully tested. See SPEC.md for the design and ISA.md for the ideal-state criteria and build provenance.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.