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Someone compressed Andrej Karpathy's entire personal knowledge base workflow into 10 minutes. Obsidian + Claude + your own files, querying a wiki that compounds instead of a chat that forgets. Best AI workflow I've tested this year.

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Rohit5 months ago

People interested in the Karpathy personal knowledge base setup. Here's the repo:

范师傅5 months ago

My Obsidian knowledge base built around Karpathy’s LLM Wiki model. Input all fuels output — game-changer for non-coders like me.

Siddharth5 months ago

i am building an obsidian system for my company most probably next month, lets see how it goes

Eugeniu Ghelbur5 months ago

@cyrilXBT Here is the last update on karpathy llm wiki v2 + obsidian 43 commands = living vault

Shain Noor5 months ago

"Compounds instead of forgets" is the whole game. A chat starts from zero every session. Files persist. Once your agent reads and writes its own filesystem, memory stops being a prompt problem and becomes a storage problem. That’s why we built

Cloud Strife5 months ago

Karpathy's workflow is just 'take good notes and connect ideas.' The tooling obscures how simple the actual process is.

BenUsesAI5 months ago

obsidian + claude is just another manual pipeline you refuse to automate stop glorifying note-taking when one agent could replace your

Gia huy5 months ago

すごいですね！情報管理の方法が革新的です。私も試してみたいです！

Gerard Sans | Axiom 🇬🇧5 months ago

🚨Tokenmaxxin alert:

Terry Bui5 months ago

すごい! Thử nghiệm tuyệt vời!

Himanshu5 months ago

Damnn this has to be very useful, thanks for sharing

Shubh Thorat5 months ago

compounding wiki vs chat that forgets is the right mental model. been running this with claude for a few weeks and the gap widens every day

安叫兽|Bird🕊️ 🔶 BNB5 months ago

这比一堆聊天记录靠谱多了

pilux5 months ago

100% agree, the agent space is moving fast

Asher 🪺5 months ago

Running Claude + Obsidian hits different when you realize how much it actually costs

AI Mastery Guide5 months ago

The difference between a chat that forgets and a knowledge base that grows is huge

Nomad5 months ago

@cyrilXBT I swear I've seen 9000 implementations of this and they all suck

NMhao5 months ago

新しいAIの最良の作業フローを試してみたいです。

Argona5 months ago

thanks for the repo Rohit you are the best

Therealbitcoinmd5 months ago

@cyrilXBT @grok are these just all ads for obsidian?

Blum5 months ago

this is hands down the smoothest running system with AI and this kind of file handling efficiency

Haley5 months ago

Andrej Karpathy’s Obsidian + Claude setup is a clear upgrade over ephemeral chat logs.

Dantri 👾5 months ago

need this asap

betraidx5 months ago

@cyrilXBT claude turns notes into actual output

Scott5 months ago

Lex Friedman is a moron in the AI space. You just lost all credibility. Wow, markdown. So revolutionary!

Avid5 months ago

Nice one

leopardracer5 months ago

@cyrilXBT W

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This beginner guide to Karpathy's LLM Wiki is one of the most useful AI videos i've shared this year Karpathy's idea: instead of asking AI questions every time, make it build you a permanent knowledge base that grows smarter over time > drop your documents into a folder > Claude reads them and builds a structured wiki in Obsidian > every time you add a new source, Claude Sonnet updates existing pages and links new ideas > ask complex questions - Claude Opus answers from the organized wiki, not raw files it's like having a researcher who never forgets and connects dots across everything you've ever given it full setup guide is in the video above

This beginner guide to Karpathy's LLM Wiki is one of the most useful AI videos i've shared this year Karpathy's idea: instead of asking AI questions every time, make it build you a permanent knowledge base that grows smarter over time > drop your documents into a folder > Claude reads them and builds a structured wiki in Obsidian > every time you add a new source, Claude Sonnet updates existing pages and links new ideas > ask complex questions - Claude Opus answers from the organized wiki, not raw files it's like having a researcher who never forgets and connects dots across everything you've ever given it full setup guide is in the video above

Mr. Buzzoni

58,787 views • 5 months ago

Claude Code + Obsidian is the most powerful AI combo I've ever used. I literally built an AI second brain that runs my entire life. Inspired by Andrej Karpathy's LLM Knowledge Wiki, this tool has been a complete game-changer. Here's EXACTLY how to build one for yourself:

Claude Code + Obsidian is the most powerful AI combo I've ever used. I literally built an AI second brain that runs my entire life. Inspired by Andrej Karpathy's LLM Knowledge Wiki, this tool has been a complete game-changer. Here's EXACTLY how to build one for yourself:

Miles Deutscher

977,349 views • 6 months ago

Andrej Karpathy quietly shipped the best second brain idea in years not an app. a pattern. let an llm maintain a wiki of your notes. you dump sources, it reads them, links them, files them. knowledge compounds like interest. someone built it into a free claude code plugin. setup is two commands: claude plugin marketplace add AgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian claude plugin install claude-obsidian@agricidaniel-claude-obsidian then open obsidian, open claude code in the same folder, type /wiki. that's it. your notes are now queryable by claude and they get richer every time you read something. bookmark this. best thing you'll build this weekend.

Andrej Karpathy quietly shipped the best second brain idea in years not an app. a pattern. let an llm maintain a wiki of your notes. you dump sources, it reads them, links them, files them. knowledge compounds like interest. someone built it into a free claude code plugin. setup is two commands: claude plugin marketplace add AgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian claude plugin install claude-obsidian@agricidaniel-claude-obsidian then open obsidian, open claude code in the same folder, type /wiki. that's it. your notes are now queryable by claude and they get richer every time you read something. bookmark this. best thing you'll build this weekend.

Avid

339,848 views • 4 months ago

Most notes die the moment you save them. Karpathy’s workflow, paired with Obsidian and Claude Code, turns them into a living knowledge base you can actually use. Instead of digging through thousands of forgotten notes, you get an AI-powered second brain that remembers, connects, and surfaces exactly what you need.

Most notes die the moment you save them. Karpathy’s workflow, paired with Obsidian and Claude Code, turns them into a living knowledge base you can actually use. Instead of digging through thousands of forgotten notes, you get an AI-powered second brain that remembers, connects, and surfaces exactly what you need.

Evan Luthra | TOKEN2049 🇸🇬

64,717 views • 3 months ago

Andrej Karpathy builds a personal wiki to think with LLMs. I took that idea and went further. Claude Code + Obsidian = an AI that actually knows you. Your goals. Your context. Your history. Not a chatbot. A second brain that remembers. Here's exactly how to build it:

Andrej Karpathy builds a personal wiki to think with LLMs. I took that idea and went further. Claude Code + Obsidian = an AI that actually knows you. Your goals. Your context. Your history. Not a chatbot. A second brain that remembers. Here's exactly how to build it:

leopardracer

224,408 views • 6 months ago

I genuinely don't understand why everyone isn't using this yet. Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI co-founder, posted a simple idea that went massively viral: Stop using AI to write code. Use it to build a second brain. You point Claude Code at a folder. Drop in any source: an article, a transcript, a PDF. Claude reads it, links it, files it into a living wiki of everything you know. It compounds like interest. The more you feed it, the smarter it gets. Here's the whole thing: 1) Install Obsidian 2) Create a vault 3) Open it in Claude Code 4) Paste Karpathy's wiki idea and tell Claude to build it 5) Claude makes three folders: - raw (for sources) - wiki (for its pages) - CLAUDE. md (that runs it) 6) Drop any source into raw and say: "ingest this" 7) Ask questions across everything, forever Five minutes to set up and you never start from a blank chat again. Full step by step guide below.

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CyrilXBT

332,891 views • 4 months ago

We built an app called Hatch It enables Karpathy's entire LLM Knowledge Base workflow out of the box, in 2 or 3 clicks, in a single interface. No need to stitch together Obsidian + plugins + markdown files + custom tools + etc. Hatch is an AI workspace where files, docs, and chats all live together. Not only can the chats READ files and docs, but they can WRITE and ORGANIZE them as well. This means you can set up an LLM Wiki in literally 3 steps, as I show in this video.

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Channing Allen

186,867 views • 6 months ago

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Bober_smart

100,219 views • 15 days ago

GPT-6 Astra inside Obsidian was used to build a knowledge base inspired by Karpathy's LLM Wiki that stores winning ad structures, sales spines, character sheets and timed video sequences for a reusable long-form ad agent.

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Mr. Buzzoni

30,515 views • 9 days ago

KARPATHY'S SECOND BRAIN REWRITES YOUR NOTES EVERY TIME YOU LEARN SOMETHING NEW most AI note setups are just RAG you ask, it digs through your files, answers, and forgets nothing carries over every query starts from zero Karpathy's llm-wiki works differently the AI keeps a living wiki inside Obsidian every source you drop in gets: > read and summarized > cross-linked to what you already have > checked for contradictions > folded into the running synthesis the knowledge compounds instead of resetting now the part people miss: a wiki like this is a product > deep research reports to founders go for $2-5k each > a due diligence package on a niche runs $5-10k > a paid newsletter off your synthesis pages clears $3-4k/mo at a few hundred subs your job is to curate sources and ask good questions the AI does the bookkeeping no human keeps up with - Obsidian is the IDE - the LLM is the programmer - your wiki is the codebase save this before your notes pile any higher 👇

KARPATHY'S SECOND BRAIN REWRITES YOUR NOTES EVERY TIME YOU LEARN SOMETHING NEW most AI note setups are just RAG you ask, it digs through your files, answers, and forgets nothing carries over every query starts from zero Karpathy's llm-wiki works differently the AI keeps a living wiki inside Obsidian every source you drop in gets: > read and summarized > cross-linked to what you already have > checked for contradictions > folded into the running synthesis the knowledge compounds instead of resetting now the part people miss: a wiki like this is a product > deep research reports to founders go for $2-5k each > a due diligence package on a niche runs $5-10k > a paid newsletter off your synthesis pages clears $3-4k/mo at a few hundred subs your job is to curate sources and ask good questions the AI does the bookkeeping no human keeps up with - Obsidian is the IDE - the LLM is the programmer - your wiki is the codebase save this before your notes pile any higher 👇

Mr. Buzzoni

18,500 views • 3 months ago

HOLY F*CKING SH*T you waste 20 minutes every morning re-explaining your project to Claude like it has never heard of you, and Karpathy showed you the fix a year ago Andrej Karpathy, co-founder of OpenAI, posted one idea that pulled 16 million views: stop using AI to write code. use it to build a second brain You point Claude Code to a folder, drop any source in there (article, transcript, PDF) and Claude reads it, links it, and saves it into a living wiki of everything you know. it compounds like interest: the more you feed it, the sharper every answer gets Here is the gist: → install Obsidian, create a vault, open it in Claude Code → paste Karpathy's wiki prompt and tell Claude to build it → Claude creates 3 folders: raw for sources, wiki for its pages, CLAUDE.md that runs everything → drop any source into raw and say "ingest this" → ask anything across all of it, forever 5 minutes to set up. and you never open a blank Claude chat again the full step-by-step is in the article below bookmark this before you waste another monday

HOLY FCKING SHT you waste 20 minutes every morning re-explaining your project to Claude like it has never heard of you, and Karpathy showed you the fix a year ago Andrej Karpathy, co-founder of OpenAI, posted one idea that pulled 16 million views: stop using AI to write code. use it to build a second brain You point Claude Code to a folder, drop any source in there (article, transcript, PDF) and Claude reads it, links it, and saves it into a living wiki of everything you know. it compounds like interest: the more you feed it, the sharper every answer gets Here is the gist: → install Obsidian, create a vault, open it in Claude Code → paste Karpathy's wiki prompt and tell Claude to build it → Claude creates 3 folders: raw for sources, wiki for its pages, CLAUDE.md that runs everything → drop any source into raw and say "ingest this" → ask anything across all of it, forever 5 minutes to set up. and you never open a blank Claude chat again the full step-by-step is in the article below bookmark this before you waste another monday

mojesko

96,487 views • 3 days ago

I still don't get why people bother creating a second brain for Claude from scratch when these 10 repositories already provide complete systems They process your sources, organize them into a wiki, verify every single claim, and one of them even operates entirely on your personal machine 1. obsidian-skills-> rightarrow The CEO of Obsidian personally shows Claude the inner workings of Obsidian 2. claude-obsidian-> rightarrow Simply drop any source in, and Claude will read, link, and file it into a unified, connected graph of standard Markdown files that you control 3. obsidian-second-brain-> rightarrow Claude Code retains memory of you across different sessions, featuring 48 commands operating entirely within your Obsidian vault 4. karpathy-llm-wiki-> rightarrow Features a single installation line, followed by ingestion, querying with citations, and linting—all usable within Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or OpenCode 5. second-brain-> rightarrow Takes raw sources as input and outputs linked wiki pages for easy browsing inside Obsidian 6. second-brain-os-> rightarrow The complete package: includes a 77-page guide, a starter vault, 18 skills, 72 commands, and 6 subagents (four of which are read-only) 7. llm-wiki-> rightarrow Utilizes a two-tier memory system: 10 to 20 rules loaded by Claude during every session, alongside 50 to 200 wiki pages fetched strictly when needed 8. vouch-> rightarrow Agents suggest modifications for your approval, where any claim lacking an explicit source is treated as an error 9. ai-second-brain-> rightarrow Transforms your historical interactions from ChatGPT and Claude into a linked Obsidian vault, which then becomes a wiki 10. LLM_Wiki_SecondBrain-> rightarrow Runs the entire pipeline locally without any cloud APIs (recommended 32 GB of RAM) I recommend adding this to bookmarks and never doing this manually again

I still don't get why people bother creating a second brain for Claude from scratch when these 10 repositories already provide complete systems They process your sources, organize them into a wiki, verify every single claim, and one of them even operates entirely on your personal machine 1. obsidian-skills-> rightarrow The CEO of Obsidian personally shows Claude the inner workings of Obsidian 2. claude-obsidian-> rightarrow Simply drop any source in, and Claude will read, link, and file it into a unified, connected graph of standard Markdown files that you control 3. obsidian-second-brain-> rightarrow Claude Code retains memory of you across different sessions, featuring 48 commands operating entirely within your Obsidian vault 4. karpathy-llm-wiki-> rightarrow Features a single installation line, followed by ingestion, querying with citations, and linting—all usable within Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or OpenCode 5. second-brain-> rightarrow Takes raw sources as input and outputs linked wiki pages for easy browsing inside Obsidian 6. second-brain-os-> rightarrow The complete package: includes a 77-page guide, a starter vault, 18 skills, 72 commands, and 6 subagents (four of which are read-only) 7. llm-wiki-> rightarrow Utilizes a two-tier memory system: 10 to 20 rules loaded by Claude during every session, alongside 50 to 200 wiki pages fetched strictly when needed 8. vouch-> rightarrow Agents suggest modifications for your approval, where any claim lacking an explicit source is treated as an error 9. ai-second-brain-> rightarrow Transforms your historical interactions from ChatGPT and Claude into a linked Obsidian vault, which then becomes a wiki 10. LLM_Wiki_SecondBrain-> rightarrow Runs the entire pipeline locally without any cloud APIs (recommended 32 GB of RAM) I recommend adding this to bookmarks and never doing this manually again

Bober_smart

34,491 views • 1 day ago

Fable 5 and Karpathy's knowledge base trick are basically a cheat code. Someone just dropped a full walkthrough on building the most powerful second brain ever Andrej Karpathy shared a simple idea: use an LLM to build personal knowledge bases. Index your sources, let the model organize them, and use Obsidian as the front end. Someone just built the full thing with Claude Code and Fable 5, and walked through every step You drop your sources into a folder (YouTube transcripts, PDFs, articles, meeting notes) and Claude Code reads them, splits them into linked wiki pages, and builds a living second brain that connects everything. It grows on its own as you add more. Where Fable 5 pulls ahead: it found a connection buried across two sources you'd miss reading them separately. And asked to turn the messy web of links into something a beginner could understand, it produced clean, simple HTML in one shot. The same task took a full day on Opus 4.8 and came out worse. The best part: it's all just markdown files with routing. So it's not locked to Claude Code. Plug it into Codex or any agent you want. Give your AI a real knowledge base, and it stops guessing and starts knowing. Bookmark this.

Fable 5 and Karpathy's knowledge base trick are basically a cheat code. Someone just dropped a full walkthrough on building the most powerful second brain ever Andrej Karpathy shared a simple idea: use an LLM to build personal knowledge bases. Index your sources, let the model organize them, and use Obsidian as the front end. Someone just built the full thing with Claude Code and Fable 5, and walked through every step You drop your sources into a folder (YouTube transcripts, PDFs, articles, meeting notes) and Claude Code reads them, splits them into linked wiki pages, and builds a living second brain that connects everything. It grows on its own as you add more. Where Fable 5 pulls ahead: it found a connection buried across two sources you'd miss reading them separately. And asked to turn the messy web of links into something a beginner could understand, it produced clean, simple HTML in one shot. The same task took a full day on Opus 4.8 and came out worse. The best part: it's all just markdown files with routing. So it's not locked to Claude Code. Plug it into Codex or any agent you want. Give your AI a real knowledge base, and it stops guessing and starts knowing. Bookmark this.

Shadow Nick

47,331 views • 4 months ago

CLAUDE JUST TURNED OBSIDIAN INTO A BRAIN THAT NEVER FORGETS (FOR $0) Someone connected Claude straight to their Obsidian vault. Now the AI reads and writes every note they own. Every client, every idea, every project. Instant recall. Runs on Claude + Obsidian. One evening. Zero code. The numbers are insane: - Notion AI: $10/month forever - A "second brain" course: $500 to $2,000 - An assistant to organize your notes: $3,000/month - This setup: $0 - Time to build: one evening - Skill required: copy the steps The opportunity is even wilder: People sell Notion "second brain" templates for $99 to $499. You just built something better for free, and it never forgets. One free vault can hold the entire memory of your business: clients, content, SOPs, ideas. One person + Claude + Obsidian + one evening = an infinite memory that never forgets. Save and watch the clip.

CLAUDE JUST TURNED OBSIDIAN INTO A BRAIN THAT NEVER FORGETS (FOR $0) Someone connected Claude straight to their Obsidian vault. Now the AI reads and writes every note they own. Every client, every idea, every project. Instant recall. Runs on Claude + Obsidian. One evening. Zero code. The numbers are insane: - Notion AI: $10/month forever - A "second brain" course: $500 to $2,000 - An assistant to organize your notes: $3,000/month - This setup: $0 - Time to build: one evening - Skill required: copy the steps The opportunity is even wilder: People sell Notion "second brain" templates for $99 to $499. You just built something better for free, and it never forgets. One free vault can hold the entire memory of your business: clients, content, SOPs, ideas. One person + Claude + Obsidian + one evening = an infinite memory that never forgets. Save and watch the clip.

shmidt

57,347 views • 4 months ago

Karpathy's Personal Wiki Idea implemented: Synthadoc takes your documents and helps organize it into a wikipedia format. No cloud account. No vendor lock-in. You owned your wiki. Use Claude Code Community directly.

Karpathy's Personal Wiki Idea implemented: Synthadoc takes your documents and helps organize it into a wikipedia format. No cloud account. No vendor lock-in. You owned your wiki. Use Claude Code Community directly.

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17,834 views • 6 months ago

Still baffled as to why people are sleeping on this. Implementing this strategy is what allowed me to bump my monthly earnings to $13,000 a year ago A simple concept shared by OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy recently exploded to 21 million views. Stop treating AI as just a coding tool and start using it to construct your personal second brain The workflow is seamless. Direct Claude Code to a designated directory, drop in any raw material like a PDF, transcript, or article, and let Claude parse, connect, and integrate it into a dynamic personal wiki. It compounds over time, meaning the system grows sharper the more information you feed it The quick setup guide: Download Obsidian, spin up a new vault, and open it up in Claude Code Feed Claude the document outlining Karpathy's wiki framework and tell it to initialize the system The AI will automatically structure three core folders: raw for source uploads, wiki for your interconnected pages, and CLAUDE to manage the engine Drop new materials into raw and give the command: "ingest this" Search and query your entire accumulated database whenever you want Total setup time is about five minutes, and you will never stare at an empty prompt window again The full walkthrough is linked below. Hit bookmark so you don't lose it

Still baffled as to why people are sleeping on this. Implementing this strategy is what allowed me to bump my monthly earnings to $13,000 a year ago A simple concept shared by OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy recently exploded to 21 million views. Stop treating AI as just a coding tool and start using it to construct your personal second brain The workflow is seamless. Direct Claude Code to a designated directory, drop in any raw material like a PDF, transcript, or article, and let Claude parse, connect, and integrate it into a dynamic personal wiki. It compounds over time, meaning the system grows sharper the more information you feed it The quick setup guide: Download Obsidian, spin up a new vault, and open it up in Claude Code Feed Claude the document outlining Karpathy's wiki framework and tell it to initialize the system The AI will automatically structure three core folders: raw for source uploads, wiki for your interconnected pages, and CLAUDE to manage the engine Drop new materials into raw and give the command: "ingest this" Search and query your entire accumulated database whenever you want Total setup time is about five minutes, and you will never stare at an empty prompt window again The full walkthrough is linked below. Hit bookmark so you don't lose it

Bober_smart

24,597 views • 2 months ago

HERMES AGENT SHIPS WITH A BUNDLED SKILL FOR ANDREJ KARPATHY'S LLM WIKI PATTERN. A SELF-IMPROVING KNOWLEDGE BASE THAT GROWS EVERY TIME YOU FEED IT. mentioned this briefly in the overnight workflow article. here is the full breakdown. what it is: a self-improving knowledge base built as interlinked markdown files. unlike RAG (which rediscovers knowledge from scratch every query), the wiki compiles knowledge once and keeps it current. cross-references stay linked. contradictions get flagged automatically. synthesis reflects everything ingested so far. why this matters for Hermes memory: Hermes built-in memory knows YOU. it remembers your conversations, your preferences, your business context across sessions. but it doesn't know your inbox. or your meeting transcripts. or that article you saved last week. or the expert framework you want it to learn. the LLM Wiki solves that. THE DIVISION OF LABOR human curates sources and directs analysis. agent summarizes, cross-references, files, and maintains consistency. you drop in articles, transcripts, notes. Hermes indexes them, links related concepts, flags contradictions, updates affected pages. your knowledge base grows itself. SETUP IS ONE COMMAND the skill ships with Hermes. enable it. set WIKI_PATH in ~/.hermes/.env: WIKI_PATH=/Users/you/wiki defaults to ~/wiki if unset. then drop anything into it: "index this article into my wiki: [paste URL or text]" Hermes reads it, builds a source page, updates related entries, flags contradictions. THE OBSIDIAN ANGLE set OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH to the same directory. now your wiki is visible in Obsidian's graph view. nodes, links, backlinks. all built by Hermes. for headless servers: install obsidian-headless. syncs vaults without a GUI. agent writes from the server, you read on your laptop. THE COMPOUND EFFECT Hermes knows you. the wiki knows your world. combine them and the agent answers questions using BOTH contexts at once. month 1: you explain things twice. month 3: the agent references the wiki on its own. answers get sharper because the knowledge base got sharper. AUTOMATIONS THAT FEED THE WIKI set cron jobs to ingest automatically: "every day at 9am, check Granola for new meetings. add any new transcripts to my wiki under meeting notes." "every morning, scan my Gmail starred items. add anything worth keeping to the wiki." "every week, check arXiv for new papers in [your niche]. summarize and file." your wiki grows while you sleep. Hermes never forgets what gets indexed. THE LIMITATION TO KNOW unlike Hermes memory (which is conversational and lives across sessions), the wiki is a separate knowledge layer. Hermes won't pull from the wiki automatically unless you reference it or save it as a skill. best setup: build an LLM Wiki personality that tells Hermes to consult the wiki when answering strategy questions or domain-specific queries. full HERMES AGENT OVERNIGHT WORKFLOW👇

HERMES AGENT SHIPS WITH A BUNDLED SKILL FOR ANDREJ KARPATHY'S LLM WIKI PATTERN. A SELF-IMPROVING KNOWLEDGE BASE THAT GROWS EVERY TIME YOU FEED IT. mentioned this briefly in the overnight workflow article. here is the full breakdown. what it is: a self-improving knowledge base built as interlinked markdown files. unlike RAG (which rediscovers knowledge from scratch every query), the wiki compiles knowledge once and keeps it current. cross-references stay linked. contradictions get flagged automatically. synthesis reflects everything ingested so far. why this matters for Hermes memory: Hermes built-in memory knows YOU. it remembers your conversations, your preferences, your business context across sessions. but it doesn't know your inbox. or your meeting transcripts. or that article you saved last week. or the expert framework you want it to learn. the LLM Wiki solves that. THE DIVISION OF LABOR human curates sources and directs analysis. agent summarizes, cross-references, files, and maintains consistency. you drop in articles, transcripts, notes. Hermes indexes them, links related concepts, flags contradictions, updates affected pages. your knowledge base grows itself. SETUP IS ONE COMMAND the skill ships with Hermes. enable it. set WIKI_PATH in ~/.hermes/.env: WIKI_PATH=/Users/you/wiki defaults to ~/wiki if unset. then drop anything into it: "index this article into my wiki: [paste URL or text]" Hermes reads it, builds a source page, updates related entries, flags contradictions. THE OBSIDIAN ANGLE set OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH to the same directory. now your wiki is visible in Obsidian's graph view. nodes, links, backlinks. all built by Hermes. for headless servers: install obsidian-headless. syncs vaults without a GUI. agent writes from the server, you read on your laptop. THE COMPOUND EFFECT Hermes knows you. the wiki knows your world. combine them and the agent answers questions using BOTH contexts at once. month 1: you explain things twice. month 3: the agent references the wiki on its own. answers get sharper because the knowledge base got sharper. AUTOMATIONS THAT FEED THE WIKI set cron jobs to ingest automatically: "every day at 9am, check Granola for new meetings. add any new transcripts to my wiki under meeting notes." "every morning, scan my Gmail starred items. add anything worth keeping to the wiki." "every week, check arXiv for new papers in [your niche]. summarize and file." your wiki grows while you sleep. Hermes never forgets what gets indexed. THE LIMITATION TO KNOW unlike Hermes memory (which is conversational and lives across sessions), the wiki is a separate knowledge layer. Hermes won't pull from the wiki automatically unless you reference it or save it as a skill. best setup: build an LLM Wiki personality that tells Hermes to consult the wiki when answering strategy questions or domain-specific queries. full HERMES AGENT OVERNIGHT WORKFLOW👇

YanXbt

30,804 views • 4 months ago

Tested this workflow myself and the results are pretty impressive for <10 minutes of work

Tested this workflow myself and the results are pretty impressive for <10 minutes of work

Dan Scalco

153,006 views • 1 year ago