Zissa Wiki

Zissa Wiki

**Zissa Wiki** is a personal, LLM-maintained knowledge base for academic research, built on plain markdown files and operated via [Claude Code](https://claude.ai/code).

Part of the **Zissa** family of open, agent-driven tooling — a sibling to [Zissa Agent Orchestra](https://github.com/MetamusicX/zissa-agent-orchestra). *(Formerly `llm-research-wiki`; old links still redirect.)*

Origin

This project implements [Andrej Karpathy's LLM Wiki pattern](https://gist.github.com/karpathy/442a6bf555914893e9891c11519de94f) (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](https://github.com/MetamusicX) in conversation with Claude Code (for implementation, schema authoring, and the full wiki build).

1. Karpathy's post — the core pattern: raw sources → LLM-maintained wiki → structured queries
2. Design exploration — adapting the pattern to academic research: domain-specific page types, ingest/query/lint workflows, folder conventions
3. 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.

My own working wiki — the one I actually ingest into daily — is a separate version specialised to my research (Continental philosophy of science, new music studies, posthuman music). On top of this template it adds a populated Domain Context (Deleuze, Simondon, Bachelard, DeLanda, Ferneyhough, Rheinberger…), pre-named project subfolders for active research and writing projects, and a few edit