File Answer — Documentation skill for Claude Code
Write the last synthesized answer back to the wiki.
How to install File Answer
Installs to ~/.claude/commands/chinmaya-kausik-loom-file-answer.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Chinmaya-Kausik/loom/HEAD/.claude/commands/file-answer.md -o ~/.claude/commands/chinmaya-kausik-loom-file-answer.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What File Answer does
Write the last synthesized answer back to the wiki.
- Take the most recent answer from this conversation.
- Generate a descriptive title and filename slug.
- Write it to
wiki/answers/usingloom:write_wiki_pagewith complete frontmatter:- type: "answer"
- Include the original question in the content
- List all wiki pages that were consulted as sources
- Set appropriate tags
- Call
loom:update_master_indexto update the page catalog. - Call
loom:append_logwith entry_ty
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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