Karpathy LLM Wiki Pattern

Source card for Andrej Karpathy's llm-wiki.md gist, created 2026-04-04.

Relevant Facts

• The pattern contrasts ordinary RAG with a persistent wiki that the LLM incrementally maintains.
• The durable structure has three layers: immutable raw sources, mutable LLM-written wiki pages, and a schema or agent instruction file that defines conventions.
• Main operations are ingest, query, and lint.
• wiki/index.md is content-oriented navigation.
• wiki/log.md is chronological, append-only operation history.
• The implementation is intentionally abstract; each project should instantiate the directory layout, schema, page formats, and tooling that fit its domain.

Use In This Repo

This source supports README.md, schema/WIKI.md, and the foundational wiki pages: wiki/llm-wiki.md, wiki/three-layer-architecture.md, and wiki/rag-vs-llm-wiki.md.