wiki-init

Scaffold a Karpathy-style LLM wiki so the user can start ingesting sources immediately. The pattern is described in https://gist.github.com/karpathy/442a6bf555914893e9891c11519de94f — this skill produces the minimal scaffold it implies.

What you create

<project>/ raw/ # immutable source archive (sibling, outside MCP's view) wiki/ # THIS folder is what --wiki-root points at CLAUDE.md # the schema, co-evolved with the user index.md # catalog, organized by category log.md # append-only chronological record pages/ # LLM-authored pages live here

raw/ is a project-level sibling of wiki/ — MCP never touches it, but wiki-ingest reads from it via host Read when processing a new source. wiki/ is owned entirely by the LLM; wiki/CLAUDE.md is the only file the user regularly edits. MCP's --wiki-root points at <project>/wiki/, NOT at <project>/.

Intake

Ask the user three things, in order:

1. Path — where to create the wiki. Default ./wiki-root. This is

the <project> path; suggest ~/wikis/<topic> if the user keeps multiple wikis.

1. Topic — one sentence describing what this wiki is about.
2. Primary language — the language wiki pages will be written in

(default: English).

If <project>/wiki/CLAUDE.md already exists, stop and tell the user the wiki exists. Do not overwrite.

Scaffold

This skill does not require the llm-wiki-mcp server to be running — it creates the directory the server will later point at. Use the standard Write and Bash tools.

1. Create <project>/raw/ and <project>/wiki/pages/.
2. Write <project>/wiki/CLAUDE.md from templates/CLAUDE.md.template,

substituting {{TOPIC}} and {{LANGUAGE}}.

1. Write <project>/wiki/index.md from templates/index.md.template,

substituting {{TOPIC}}.

1. Write <project>/wiki/log.md from templates/log.md.template,

substituting {{DATE}} (today, YYYY-MM-DD) and {{TOPIC}}.

1. Print the contents of templates/mcp-wiring.md with

{{ABSOLUTE_PATH}} substituted to the absolute path of <project>/wiki (NOT <project>).

1. Tell the user the wiki is ready and suggest they restart their MCP

client, then say ingest <first-source> to trigger wiki-ingest.

About the templates

Do not paraphrase. Write the files verbatim with placeholders replaced. The templates encode Karpathy's operation vocabulary (ingest, query, lint) and log format (## [YYYY-MM-DD] <op> | <title>) — preserving them keeps downstream skills (wiki-ingest, wiki-query, wiki-lint) working without reinterpretation.