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This article introduces Andrej Karpathy's LLM Wiki, a system designed to transform raw documents into a structured markdown knowledge base. This personal knowledge base can be efficiently queried using Claude's capabilities. The guide provides practical instructions on setting up this system quickly, specifically highlighting its integration with Obsidian in just five minutes.
The "LLM Wiki" proposes a pattern for building persistent knowledge bases where an LLM incrementally creates and maintains a structured, interlinked wiki of markdown files from raw sources. This approach differs from typical RAG by having the LLM perform all the "bookkeeping"—summarizing, cross-referencing, and updating—allowing knowledge to compound and stay current, rather than being re-derived on every query. The system consists of immutable raw sources, the LLM-maintained wiki, and a guiding
