Wiki Builder: Skill to Build LLM Knowledge Bases

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TLDR

  • Open-source Claude Code plugin that scaffolds a full markdown knowledge base in one command, with prompt templates, config, and a maintenance loop included.

Key Takeaways

  • Install once via /plugin install wiki-builder@dair-academy-plugins; scaffold any new wiki by telling Claude the topic and flavor (research, paper, domain, product, person, organization, project).
  • Each wiki gets its own wiki.config.md so the agent adapts behavior per project; provenance is enforced by tying every claim to sources.md.
  • Ships three components: init_wiki.sh scaffolding script, reusable prompt templates in prompts/, and a SKILL.md that teaches Claude the compile-query-lint loop.
  • Demonstrated on the Agentic Engineering Wiki: 51 tips, 9 company profiles, 10 paper summaries, 14 tool entries, all navigable from wiki/index.md, no custom tooling beyond the plugin.
  • Explicitly positions against embedding/vector-DB pipelines for small corpora; structured markdown plus a coding agent covers most real-world research and internal knowledge-base needs.

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