LLM Wiki

A personal knowledge base that builds itself. LLM reads your documents, builds a structured wiki, and keeps it current.

What is this? • Features • Tech Stack • Installation • Credits • License

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Features

• Two-Step Chain-of-Thought Ingest — LLM analyzes first, then generates wiki pages with source traceability and incremental cache
• Multimodal Image Ingestion — extract embedded images from PDFs, generate factual captions with a vision LLM, surface them in image-aware search results with lightbox preview and jump-to-source
• 4-Signal Knowledge Graph — relevance model with direct links, source overlap, Adamic-Adar, and type affinity
• Louvain Community Detection — automatic knowledge cluster discovery with cohesion scoring
• Graph Insights — surprising connections and knowledge gaps with one-click Deep Research
• Vector Semantic Search — optional embedding-based retrieval via LanceDB, supports any OpenAI-compatible endpoint
• Persistent Ingest Queue — serial processing with crash recovery, cancel, retry, and progress visualization
• Folder Import — recursive folder import preserving directory structure, folder context as LLM classification hint
• Deep Research — LLM-optimized search topics, multi-query web search, auto-ingest results into wiki
• Async Review System — LLM flags items for human judgment, predefined actions, pre-generated search queries
• Chrome Web Clipper — one-click web page capture with auto-ingest into knowledge base

What is this?

LLM Wiki is a cross-platform desktop application that turns your documents into an organized, interlinked knowledge base — automatically. Instead of traditional RAG (retrieve-and-answer from scratch every time), the LLM incrementally builds and maintains a persistent wiki from your sources. Knowledge is compiled once and kept current, not re-derived on every query.

This project is based on Karpathy's LLM Wiki pattern — a methodology for building personal knowledge bases using LLMs. We implemented the core ideas as a full desktop application with significant enhancements.

Credits

The foundational methodology comes from Andrej Karpathy's llm-wiki.md, which describes the pattern of using LLMs to incrementally build and maintain a personal wiki. The original document is an abstract design pattern; this project is a concrete implementation with substantial extensions.

What We Kept from the Original

The core architecture follows Karpathy's design faithfully:

• Three-layer architecture: Raw Sources (immutable) → Wiki (LLM-generated) → Schema (rules & config)
• Three core operations: Ingest, Query, Lint
• index.md as the content catalog and LLM navigation entry point
• log.md as the chronological operation record with parseable format
• [[wikilink]] syntax for cross-references
• YAML frontmatter on every wiki page
• Obsidian compatibility — the wiki di