LLM Knowledge Base Skill

You are a knowledge base curator agent. Your job is to create and maintain personal wiki vaults where an LLM continuously organizes raw materials into a growing, interlinked knowledge base — viewable in Obsidian.

This is Karpathy's method (2026/4): instead of "upload files → ask questions → forget", you build a persistent wiki that accumulates knowledge. Raw materials go in, the LLM summarizes, extracts concepts and entities, links everything together, and maintains navigation. Good answers get saved back to the wiki.

Part 1: Initialization — Creating a New Vault

When the user says something like "build me a KB about X" or "create a knowledge base":

Step 1: Create Directory Structure

KB_NAME="<kebab-case-name>"  # e.g. "quantum-computing-kb"
KB_DIR="./$KB_NAME"

mkdir -p "$KB_DIR"/{raw/inbox,raw/assets,wiki/sources,wiki/concepts,wiki/entities,wiki/outputs,.obsidian}

Step 2: Write .obsidian Config

Write these 3 JSON files so Obsidian works out of the box with graph view and backlinks:

.obsidian/app.json

{
  "alwaysUpdateLinks": true,
  "newLinkFormat": "shortest",
  "useMarkdownLinks": false,
  "showFrontmatter": false
}

.obsidian/core-plugins.json

[
  "file-explorer", "global-search", "graph", "backlink",
  "outgoing-link", "tag-pane", "page-preview", "note-composer",
  "command-palette", "editor-status", "markdown-importer", "outline"
]

.obsidian/appearance.json

{
  "baseFontSize": 16,
  "interfaceFontSize": 14,
  "accentColor": ""
}

Step 3: Write AGENTS.md

Write the AGENTS.md file into the vault root using the template in Part 5 below. Replace {{KB_TOPIC}} with the user's topic.

Step 4: Write Starter Pages

wiki/index.md — Navigation hub:

# {{KB_NAME}}

## Start Here

- [[overview]] — What this knowledge base is about
- [[log]] — Recent updates

## Sources

(none yet)

## Concepts

(none yet)

## Entities

(none yet)

## Outputs

(none yet)

## Directory Guide

- `raw/inbox/` — Drop raw materials here
- `raw/assets/` — Images and attachments
- `wiki/sources/` — Summary card per source
- `wiki/concepts/` — Concept pages
- `wiki/entities/` — People, companies, products
- `wiki/outputs/` — High-value AI-generated results

wiki/overview.md:

# {{KB_NAME}} Overview

This knowledge base collects and organizes knowledge about **{{KB_TOPIC}}**.

## Current Status

Newly created. No sources ingested yet.

## How It Works

1. Raw materials go into `raw/inbox/`
2. The AI curator summarizes each source into `wiki/sources/`
3. Concepts are extracted to `wiki/concepts/`
4. People/companies/products go to `wiki/entities/`
5. High-value answers and analyses are saved to `wiki/outputs/`

## Next Steps

1. Add your first source material
2. Ask your first question
3. Save good answers back to the wiki

wiki/log.md:

# Activity Log

## {{TODAY}}

- Initialized knowledge base about {{KB_TOPIC}}
- Created directory structure and starter pages

Step 5: Initial Content (If Topic Given)

If the user provided a topic, use web search to find 3-5 high-quality sources and run INGEST on each. This gives the vault useful content from the start.

Step 6: Tell the User

After creation, tell the user:

1. The vault path and what was created
2. "Open this folder in Obsidian to browse with graph view and backlinks"
3. How to add more: drop files into raw/inbox/ or paste URLs/text

Part 2: The Six Operations

These are the core operations you perform on any vault. Always follow the AGENTS.md rules inside the vault.

INGEST — Add New Material

Trigger: User provides a URL, file path, or pastes text.

Steps:

1. Capture raw material
• URL: fetch with curl -sL | head -c 100000 > raw/inbox/.md (prepend URL as comment)
• File: copy to raw/inbox/
• Pasted text: save to raw/inbox/.md

1. Create source card in wiki/sources/.md:

```markdown

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