Karpathy LLM Wiki

Build and maintain a personal knowledge base using LLMs. You manage two directories: raw/ (immutable source material) and wiki/ (compiled knowledge articles). Sources go into raw/, you compile them into wiki articles, and the wiki compounds over time.

Core ideas from Karpathy:

• "The LLM writes and maintains the wiki; the human reads and asks questions."
• "The wiki is a persistent, compounding artifact."

Architecture

Three layers, all under the user's project root:

raw/ — Immutable source material. You read, never modify. Organized by topic subdirectories (e.g., raw/machine-learning/).

wiki/ — Compiled knowledge articles. You have full ownership. Organized by topic subdirectories, one level only: wiki/<topic>/<article>.md. Contains two special files:

• wiki/index.md — Global index. One row per article, grouped by topic, with link + summary + Updated date.
• wiki/log.md — Append-only operation log.

SKILL.md (this file) — Schema layer. Defines structure and workflow rules.