Ingest / Query / Lint

The three operations that define what the LLM does to the wiki. See CLAUDE.md for the concrete procedure in this vault.

Ingest

Raw → wiki. New source comes in; LLM reads, discusses, writes a source-summary page, updates touched entity/concept pages, updates index.md, appends to log.md. A single source can touch 10–15 pages.

Query

Ask → answer. Read index.md first, then drill into pages, then synthesize with citations.

Crucial discipline: if the answer is non-trivial and reusable, file it back as a wiki/synthesis/ page. This is what makes explorations compound — otherwise they evaporate into chat history.

Lint

Periodic health check. Look for:

• Contradictions between pages.
• Stale claims that newer sources superseded.
• Orphan pages (no inbound links).
• Concepts mentioned in 3+ pages without their own page.
• Missing cross-references.
• Gaps a web search could fill.

Produces a wiki/synthesis/lint-YYYY-MM-DD.md report.

Related

• three-layer-architecture — what these operations move things between.
• llm-wiki-pattern — the pattern these operations implement.