SKILL.md
LLM Wiki — Second Brain for Claude Code + Obsidian
Inspired by Andrej Karpathy's LLM Wiki pattern (gist). This skill turns Claude Code (or any agent CLI) into a disciplined wiki maintainer that incrementally builds and maintains a persistent, interlinked Obsidian vault as you feed it sources. The knowledge compounds — cross-references, contradictions, and synthesis are already there when you query.
Core principle
Most LLM+docs workflows are RAG: retrieve fragments at query time, synthesize from scratch, forget. The wiki is compounding: sources are read once, integrated into a persistent markdown knowledge base, and kept current. You curate and ask; the LLM reads, files, cross-references, and maintains.
Obsidian is the IDE. The LLM is the programmer. The wiki is the codebase.
When to use
- Personal: track goals, health, psychology, journaling, self-improvement
- Research: deep dives over weeks on a topic — papers, articles, reports, evolving thesis
- Book companion: file chapters as you read; build a fan-wiki-style companion for characters, themes, plot threads
- Business/team: internal wiki fed by Slack, meeting notes, calls — LLM does maintenance nobody else wants to do
- Competitive analysis, due diligence, trip planning, course notes, hobby deep-dives
Do NOT use when: you need one-shot Q&A over a fixed document (use RAG), you don't plan to add sources over time, or you don't want Obsidian in the loop.
LLM Wiki — Second Brain for Claude Code + Obsidian
Inspired by Andrej Karpathy's LLM Wiki pattern (gist). This skill turns Claude Code (or any agent CLI) into a disciplined wiki maintainer that incrementally builds and maintains a persistent, interlinked Obsidian vault as you feed it sources. The knowledge compounds — cross-references, contradictions, and synthesis are already there when you query.
Core principle
Most LLM+docs workflows are RAG: retrieve fragments at query time, synthesize from scratch, forget. The wiki is compounding: sources are read once, integrated into a persistent markdown knowledge base, and kept current. You curate and ask; the LLM reads, files, cross-references, and maintains.
Obsidian is the IDE. The LLM is the programmer. The wiki is the codebase.
When to use
- Personal: track goals, health, psychology, journaling, self-improvement
- Research: deep dives over weeks on a topic — papers, articles, reports, evolving thesis
- Book companion: file chapters as you read; build a fan-wiki-style companion for characters, themes, plot threads
- Business/team: internal wiki fed by Slack, meeting notes, calls — LLM does maintenance nobody else wants to do
- Competitive analysis, due diligence, trip planning, course notes, hobby deep-dives
Do NOT use when: you need one-shot Q&A over a fixed document (use RAG), you don't plan to add sources over time, or you don't want Obsidian in the loop.