Wiki Init

Wiki Init

Bootstrap a new LLM-maintained wiki at a user-specified path.

Pre-flight

Check whether a SCHEMA.md already exists nearby. If yes, ask the user if they want to reinitialize or just continue with the existing wiki.

Process

1. Gather configuration (one question at a time)

Ask:

1. Where should the wiki live? (absolute path, e.g. ~/wikis/ml-research)
2. What is the domain/purpose? (one sentence)
3. What types of sources will you add? (papers, URLs, code files, transcripts, etc.)
4. What categories should index.md use?

• Research default: Sources | Entities | Concepts | Analyses
• Codebase default: Modules | APIs | Decisions | Flows — see codebase.md in this skill's directory for detailed codebase guidance
• Or specify custom

2. Create directory structure

/
├── SCHEMA.md         ← conventions + absolute path (how other skills find the wiki)
├── raw/              ← immutable source documents (you add these, LLM never modifies)
├── wiki/
│   ├── index.md      ← content catalog: every page, one-line summary, by category
│   ├── log.md        ← append-only operation log
│   ├── overview.md   ← evolving synthesis of everything known
│   └── pages/        ← all wiki pages, flat, slug-named (NO subdirectories)
└── assets/           ← downloaded images, PDFs, attachments

Critical: wiki/pages/ is flat. All pages live here as .md. No subdirectories. Slugs are lowercase, hyphen-separated.

3. Write SCHEMA.md

# Wiki Schema

## Identity
- **Path:** 
- **Domain:** 
- **Source types:** 
- **Created:** 

## Page Frontmatter
Every wiki page must start with:
---
title: 
tags: [tag1, tag2]
sources: [source-slug1]
updated: YYYY-MM-DD
---

## Cross-References
Use `[[slug]]` where slug = filename without `.md`.
Example: `[[transformer-architecture]]` → `wiki/pages/transformer-architecture.md`

## Citations

Cite every non-common-knowledge factual claim. "Common knowledge" = uncontroversial,
undergraduate-level facts in this wiki's domain. Granularity is paragraph or claim,
never per-sentence. If you cannot produce a citation in one of the forms below,
find one, weaken the claim, or drop it.

Format: Markdown footnotes. Two citation kinds, three valid targets.

**Quote citation** (preferred):

The model uses 8 attention heads.[^1]

[^1]: [[attention-is-all-you-need]] §3.2.2 — "We employ h = 8 parallel attention layers"

**Synthesis citation** (when no single quote captures the claim):

The architecture is fundamentally an encoder-decoder with attention.[^2]

[^2]: [[attention-is-all-you-need]] §3.2-3.4 [synthesis] — encoder, decoder, and attention sections together describe the full multi-head architecture

Three rules for every footnote:

1. **The cited target is one of three forms:**
   - `[[source-slug]]` — a source-type wiki page (preferred for sources you've
     ingested via `wiki-ingest`)
   - `raw/` or `assets/` — a path to a local file (for drive-by
     citations where a synthesis page isn't worth creating)
   - `` — a live URL, tweet, or ephemeral source (no local copy required)

   Never cite entity, concept, or analysis pages — those are syntheses, not sources.

2. **A locator is present:** `§`, `p.`, `[HH:MM:SS]` for transcripts,
   URL anchor for web, or `(YYYY-MM-DD)` for dated posts.

3. **Either a verbatim quote, or the `[synthesis]` tag plus a description** of
   what the cited range supports. No third option.

**Drive-by citation examples:**

[^3]: raw/scaling-laws.pdf p.7 — "loss scales as a power law in compute" [^4]: https://twitter.com/user/status/123 (2026-04-15) — ""

## Log Entry Format
## [YYYY-MM-DD]  | 
Operations: init, ingest, query, update, lint, audit

## Index Categories

## Conventions
- raw/ is immutable — skills never modify it
- log.md is append-only — never rewritten, only appended
- index.md is updated on every operation that adds or changes pages
- All pages live flat in wiki/pages/ — no subdirectories
- overview.md reflects the current synthesis across all sources

- README boundary: wiki pages must not duplicate README content. Extract structural signals; link to the README for operational content (setup, contributing, running). When ingesting any README, also evaluate it for gaps and suggest edits.

4. Write wiki/index.md

# Wiki Index — 

### 

5. Write wiki/log.md

# Wiki Log

Append-only. Format: `## [YYYY-MM-DD]  | `
Recent entries: `grep "^## \[" log.md | tail -10`

---

## [] init | 

6. Write wiki/overview.md

---
title: Overview
tags: [overview, synthesis]
sources: []
updated: 
---

#  — Overview

> Evolving synthesis of everything in the wiki. Updated by wiki-ingest when sources shift the understanding.

## Current Understanding

*No sources ingested yet.*

## Open Questions

*Add questions here as they arise.*

## Key Entities / Concepts

*Populated as pages are created.*

7. Confirm

Tell the user:

• Wiki initialized at ``
• Add sources to raw/ manually, or run wiki-ingest directly with a URL or file path
• Run wiki-lint periodically to keep the wiki healthy
• SCHEMA.md is how all other skills locate this wiki — do not move or delete it

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: kfchou
• Source: kfchou/wiki-skills
• License: MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.