Chris Schmitz ccschmitz

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.

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>

	<head>
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">
	<title>Normal Plot</title>
	<meta name="description" content="">
	<script src="http://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
	<style type="text/css">

	require "rubygems"
	require "pivotal-tracker"

	namespace :pt do
	# In order to use these tasks you'll need to install the pivotal tracker gem:
	#
	# gem install pivotal-tracker
	#
	# Then setup your Pivotal Tracker information in your git config file:
	#

	# SnipMate is required to use snippets
	# Download SnipMate: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2540
	# Put this file in ~/.vim/snippets/ then restart vim
	# This snippet file includes many useful snippets for CodeIgniter. Please feel free to fork and contribute!
	snippet php
	<?php
	${1}
	?>
	snippet ec
	echo "${1:string}"${2};

	// Use Gists to store code you would like to remember later on
	console.log(window); // log the "window" object to the console