Tomas M. mtomas7

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.

See more of my writing here. Also check out Devin

In this post, I'll start from scratch and build up to OpenClaw's architecture step by step, showing how you could have invented it yourself from first principles, using nothing but a messaging API, an LLM, and the desire to make AI actually useful outside the chat window.

End goal: understand how persistent AI assistants work, so you can build your own (or become an OpenClaw power user).

First, let's establish the problem

When you use ChatGPT or Claude in a browser, there are several limitations:

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	Version: 1.0
	Author: Blue Liquid Designs
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	<link rel="canonical" href="http://mysite.com/" />
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	/*
	Plugin Name: All Actions List
	Description: Lists all actions run during one request.
	Version: 1.0
	Required: 3.1
	Author: Thomas Scholz
	Author URI: http://toscho.de
	License: GPL
	*/

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	Plugin Name: R Debug
	Description: Set of dump helpers for debug.
	Author: Andrey "Rarst" Savchenko
	Author URI: https://www.rarst.net/
	License: MIT
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