zissa-wiki

Zissa Wiki is a personal, LLM-maintained knowledge base for academic research, built on plain markdown files and operated via Claude Code.

Part of the Zissa family of open, agent-driven tooling — a sibling to Zissa Agent Orchestra. *(Formerly llm-research-wiki; old links still redirect.)*

Origin

This project implements Andrej Karpathy's LLM Wiki pattern (April 2026) — the idea that instead of using RAG to re-derive knowledge from raw documents on every query, an LLM should incrementally build and maintain a persistent, structured wiki that compounds over time.

The adaptation was developed by Paulo de Assis in conversation with Claude Code (for implementation, schema authoring, and the full wiki build).

• Karpathy's post — the core pattern: raw sources → LLM-maintained wiki → structured queries
• Design exploration — adapting the pattern to academic research: domain-specific page types, ingest/query/lint workflows, folder conventions
• Implementation via Claude Code — building the full system: CLAUDE.md schema with six page templates and three workflows, folder structure, first ingest producing 38 wiki pages in a single pass

Template vs. live wiki

This repository is the template — the unspecialised seed. The CLAUDE.md here ships with placeholder Domain Context ("Customize this section") and an empty raw/. Fork it and make it yours.