Wiki Query
Answer questions from a markdown knowledge wiki by reading the wiki first, synthesizing across relevant pages, and saving durable results back into the wiki when they will be useful later.
Query workflow
- Read
index.md first when available - Identify the most relevant topic, concept, entity, source, and analysis pages
- Synthesize from the wiki before falling back to raw source files
- Distinguish direct support, synthesis, and uncertainty
- Cite the relevant wiki pages and, when useful, the supporting source pages
- Decide whether the result should be saved as a durable analysis page
- If a new page is created, update
index.md - If the wiki tracks query history, append a concise entry to
log.md
Query principles
Prefer answers that clearly separate:
- facts directly supported by source-backed wiki pages
- synthesis across multiple pages
- speculation, ambiguity, or unresolved questions
Do not present a smooth answer if the wiki evidence is mixed. Surface disagreement and missing evidence explicitly.
When to save the answer
Save the result back into the wiki when it has durable value, such as:
- a comparison that would be expensive to redo
- a synthesis across many pages or sources
- a decision memo or recommendation the user may revisit
- a new framing that should influence related topic or entity pages
Do not save trivial one-off answers.
Typical outputs
For a normal wiki query, deliver:
- a concise answer grounded in the wiki
- citations to the relevant wiki pages
- a reusable analysis page when justified
- any related
index.md or log.md updates
Quality bar
A good wiki query should:
- reduce future repeated work
- preserve traceability back to the wiki
- make uncertainty visible
- improve the wiki when the result is worth keeping
References
Read references/query-patterns.md for analysis-page templates and filing heuristics.