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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.

import sys
import os

NOP = 0x90
offsets_and_values = {
    0x00030170: 0x00,
    0x000A94D0: NOP, 0x000A94D1: NOP, 0x000A94D2: NOP, 0x000A94D3: NOP, 0x000A94D4: NOP, 0x000A94D5: NOP, 0x000A94D6: NOP, 0x000A94D7: NOP, 0x000A94D8: NOP, 0x000A94D9: NOP, 0x000A94DA: NOP, 0x000A94DB: NOP, 0x000A94DC: NOP, 0x000A94DD: NOP, 0x000A94DE: NOP, 0x000A94DF: NOP, 0x000A94E0: NOP, 0x000A94E1: NOP, 0x000A94E2: NOP, 0x000A94E3: NOP, 0x000A94E4: NOP, 0x000A94E5: NOP, 0x000A94E6: NOP, 0x000A94E7: NOP, 0x000A94E8: NOP, 0x000A94E9: NOP, 0x000A94EA: NOP, 0x000A94EB: NOP, 0x000A94EC: NOP, 0x000A94ED: NOP, 0x000A94EE: NOP, 0x000A94EF: NOP, 0x000A94F0: NOP, 0x000A94F1: NOP, 0x000A94F2: NOP, 0x000A94F3: NOP, 0x000A94F4: NOP, 0x000A94F5: NOP, 0x000A94F6: NOP, 0x000A94F7: NOP, 0x000A94F8: NOP, 0x000A94F9: NOP, 0x000A94FA: NOP, 0x000A94FB: NOP, 0x000A94FC: NOP, 0x000A94FD: NOP, 0x000A94FE: NOP, 0x000A94FF: NOP, 0x000A9500: NOP, 0x000A9501: NOP, 0x000A9502: NOP, 0x000A9503: NOP, 0x000A9504: NOP, 0x000A9505: NOP, 0x000A9506: NO

Debian 13 "Trixie"

Caution On systems with more than one EFI partition, such as systems set up for RAID with mdadm, grub-efi only upgrades one of the EFI partitions, the one mounted to /boot/efi. This can cause failure on reboot, with the system going into BIOS or EFI shell. Discussion here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1135137
See bottom of this gist for a way to verify EFI before rebooting, and upgrading the second copy so a reboot is safe

To start, read the official release notes.

If your install fits into "vanilla Debian plus maybe a handful of 3rd-party repos", then this guide for a simple upgrade to Debian 13 "trixie" from Debian 12 "bookworm" can be helpful. 3rd-party repos are handled with a find command.

	Name	Shell Command Shortcut
	%UserProfile%	explorer "shell:::{59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee}"
	%UserProfile%\Desktop	explorer "shell:::{B4BFCC3A-DB2C-424C-B029-7FE99A87C641}"
	%UserProfile%\Documents	explorer "shell:::{A8CDFF1C-4878-43be-B5FD-F8091C1C60D0}"
	%UserProfile%\Downloads	explorer "shell:::{088e3905-0323-4b02-9826-5d99428e115f}"
	%UserProfile%\Pictures	explorer "shell:::{24ad3ad4-a569-4530-98e1-ab02f9417aa8}"
	Add Network Location	explorer "shell:::{D4480A50-BA28-11d1-8E75-00C04FA31A86}"
	Additional Information	explorer "shell:::{C58C4893-3BE0-4B45-ABB5-A63E4B8C8651}\resultPage"
	Advanced Problem Reporting Settings	explorer "shell:::{BB64F8A7-BEE7-4E1A-AB8D-7D8273F7FDB6}\pageAdvSettings"
	Advanced sharing settings	explorer "shell:::{8E908FC9-BECC-40f6-915B-F4CA0E70D03D}\Advanced"

	#!/bin/bash
	set -euo pipefail
	trap 'echo "at line $LINENO, exit code $? from $BASH_COMMAND" >&2; exit 1' ERR

	# This is a Claude Code hook to stop it saying "you are right".
	#
	# Installation:
	# 1. Save this script and chmod +x it to make it executable.
	# 2. Within Claude Code, /hooks / UserPromptSubmit > Add a new hook (this file)
	#

	{
	"breadcrumbs.enabled": false,
	"editor.fontFamily": "'MonoLisa', 'Dank Mono', 'Operator Mono Lig', 'Operator Mono', Menlo, Monaco, 'Courier New', monospace",
	"editor.fontWeight": "400",
	"editor.cursorBlinking": "smooth",
	"editor.cursorSmoothCaretAnimation": "explicit",
	"editor.stickyScroll.enabled": true,
	"explorer.sortOrder": "type",
	"workbench.editor.enablePreview": false,
	"workbench.editor.highlightModifiedTabs": true,

	// I'm tired of extensions that automatically:
	// - show welcome pages / walkthroughs
	// - show release notes
	// - send telemetry
	// - recommend things
	//
	// This disables all of that stuff.
	// If you have more config, leave a comment so I can add it!!

	{

	[user]
	name = Stephen Zhou
	email = [email protected]
	signingkey = ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIDg/3T8nsnp4yqbQ0PFTs2rFZZZ7z6WFzIkp+r5EXdQB
	[init]
	defaultBranch = main
	[gpg]
	format = ssh
	[commit]
	gpgsign = true

	// Website you intended to retrieve for users.
	const upstream = 'api.openai.com'

	// Custom pathname for the upstream website.
	const upstream_path = '/'

	// Website you intended to retrieve for users using mobile devices.
	const upstream_mobile = upstream

	// Countries and regions where you wish to suspend your service.