wiki-builder

Wiki Builder

A Claude Code plugin for starting, structuring, growing, querying, and maintaining reusable research wikis. Each wiki is a standalone folder with its own sources, compiled pages, derived artifacts, prompts, and local configuration — built around a per-wiki wiki.config.md so structure and style can vary by use case.

🎥 Watch the walkthrough: How to use the wiki-builder skill on DAIR Academy.

How It Works

The skill is intentionally general. Rather than hard-coding a single wiki layout, it scaffolds a clean starting structure and then defers to each wiki's local wiki.config.md for purpose, audience, page types, style rules, and update workflow.

Supported wiki flavors out of the box:

• research — ongoing research notes and curated topics
• paper — single-paper deep dives
• domain — broad subject areas
• product — product / tool knowledge bases
• person — researcher / founder dossiers
• organization — company / lab profiles
• project — internal project knowledge bases

Setup

Install the plugin:

/plugin marketplace add dair-ai/dair-academy-plugins
/plugin install wiki-builder@dair-academy-plugins

By default, wikis are created under ~/dair-wikis/. To use a different location, set the WIKI_ROOT environment variable in your shell profile:

export WIKI_ROOT="$HOME/my-wikis"

Or pass --root /path/to/wikis to the init script on a per-call basis.

Usage

Once installed, ask Claude Code things like:

Start a new wiki on agent memory using the research flavor.

Add this arXiv paper to my ai-evals wiki and compile a source page.

Compile a concept page on tool-use benchmarks in my agents wiki and link it from the index.

Claude will:

1. Resolve the task (start, ingest, compile, query, restructure, lint, or export).
2. Read the target wiki's wiki.config.md and prompts before making changes.
3. Preserve provenance for every claim using sources.md.
4. Generate durable pages under wiki/ and update wiki/index.md and logs/maintenance-log.md.

Wiki Layout

Each new wiki starts with this layout:

<wiki-slug>/
├── wiki.config.md
├── raw/
├── wiki/
│   └── index.md
├── derived/
├── prompts/
│   ├── compile-index.md
│   ├── compile-source-page.md
│   ├── compile-concept-page.md
│   ├── query-and-file.md
│   └── lint-wiki.md
├── logs/
│   └── maintenance-log.md
└── sources.md

Common additions per flavor: wiki/papers, wiki/concepts, wiki/people, wiki/products, wiki/organizations, wiki/timelines, wiki/questions, wiki/maps, and assets.

Manual Scaffold

If you prefer to scaffold a wiki without going through Claude:

bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/wiki-builder/scripts/init_wiki.sh" \
  agent-memory \
  --title "Agent Memory" \
  --flavor research

Use --root /custom/path to override the default ~/dair-wikis location.

Quality Bar

• Make the first page useful immediately.
• Prefer explicit filenames and stable slugs.
• Separate raw source material from compiled interpretation.
• Link related wiki pages.
• Mark speculation and unknowns clearly.
• Avoid rewriting the same source summary in many places.
• Keep generated pages navigable for future agents and humans.

Credits

Built by DAIR.AI.