+−⟲ The LLM Wiki Pattern Move the synthesis from query time to ingest time. before the question after the question Retrieval-only RAG, NotebookLM,file uploads no accumulated state retrieve chunks reassemble answer every question, from scratch The LLM Wiki compile once,then keep current new source LLM compiles pages updated, contradictionsflagged, cross-refs written the wiki answer the work is already done every question feeds back in Three layers who writes what, and what nobody edits Raw sources You curate it. The agent reads it, never edits. compiled into The wiki The LLM writes all of it. Pages, summaries, cross-references. governs how it gets written The schema You and the LLM, together. CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md, co-evolving. The schema is the load-bearing piece: it makes the agent a maintainer, not a chatbot. Why it holds up maintenance is what kills human wikis the bookkeeping update cross-references keep summaries current notice contradictions with old claims stay consistent across dozens of pages for a human for an LLM The wiki gets abandoned.The burden outgrows the value. It never gets bored, and touchesfifteen files in one pass. Vannevar Bush's 1945 Memex left one problem open: who maintains the trails? Where it applies the pattern is domain-agnostic anything thataccumulates personal tracking: goals, health, psychology long-running research reading a book: characters, themes, plot threads team wikis fed by Slack and meeting transcripts competitive analysis, due diligence, course notes Deliberately underspecified The gist describes an idea, not an implementation. Directory structure, page formats, tooling: yours to work out. optional tooling it mentions qmd, for on-device hybrid BM25/vector search Obsidian Web Clipper, for capturing sources Obsidian graph view, for spotting hubs and orphans Marp for slides, Dataview for frontmatter queries This bundle uses none of them. index.md still suffices. Division of labor You: curate sources, direct the analysis, ask good questions The LLM: summarizes, cross-references, files, does the bookkeeping You rarely write the wiki yourself.