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LLM Wiki

A pattern for building personal knowledge bases using LLMs.

This is an idea file, it is designed to be copy pasted to your own LLM Agent (e.g. OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode / Pi, or etc.). Its goal is to communicate the high level idea, but your agent will build out the specifics in collaboration with you.

The core idea

Most people's experience with LLMs and documents looks like RAG: you upload a collection of files, the LLM retrieves relevant chunks at query time, and generates an answer. This works, but the LLM is rediscovering knowledge from scratch on every question. There's no accumulation. Ask a subtle question that requires synthesizing five documents, and the LLM has to find and piece together the relevant fragments every time. Nothing is built up. NotebookLM, ChatGPT file uploads, and most RAG systems work this way.

karpathy

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# AI-powered Git Commit Function
# Copy paste this gist into your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc to gain the `gcm` command. It:
# 1) gets the current staged changed diff
# 2) sends them to an LLM to write the git commit message
# 3) allows you to easily accept, edit, regenerate, cancel
# But - just read and edit the code however you like
# the `llm` CLI util is awesome, can get it here: https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/

gcm() {

awshout

<?php
add_theme_support('menus');

/**
 * Register Menus
 * http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_nav_menus#Examples
 */
register_nav_menus(array(
    'top-bar-l' => 'Left Top Bar', // registers the menu in the WordPress admin menu editor
    'top-bar-r' => 'Right Top Bar'

awshout

<?php
add_theme_support('menus'); 

/*
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_nav_menus#Examples
*/
register_nav_menus( array(
	'main-menu' => 'Main Menu' // registers the menu in the WordPress admin menu editor
) );