LLM Knowledge Bases

How to Build an LLM Knowledge Base

A hands-on guide to building a simple LLM knowledge base with raw markdown sources, a compiled wiki, reusable prompts, and an agent that keeps improving the knowledge base over time.

Andrej Karpathy on Twitter / X

LLM Knowledge BasesSomething I'm finding very useful recently: using LLMs to build personal knowledge bases for various topics of research interest. In this way, a large fraction of my recent token throughput is going less into manipulating code, and more into manipulating…— Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) April 2, 2026

himanshu on Twitter / X

and here is the full architecture of the LLM Knowledge Base system covering every stage from ingest to future explorations. https://t.co/Wmn48gB0g0 pic.twitter.com/ObJet8Esfu— himanshu (@himanshustwts) April 2, 2026

elvis on Twitter / X

Diagram of the LLM Knowledge Base system.Feed this to your favorite agent and get your own LLM knowledge base going. https://t.co/4AQSFOv4PV pic.twitter.com/nPSNi4Ayqv— elvis (@omarsar0) April 3, 2026

Yuchen Jin on Twitter / X

Karpathy’s “LLM Wiki” pattern: stop using LLMs as search engines over your docs. Use them as tireless knowledge engineers who compile, cross-reference, and maintain a living wiki. Humans curate and think.Diagram generated by my Claude agent knowledge worker. https://t.co/5u5i1GeFK8 pic.twitter.com/NIaq3KlAok— Yuchen Jin (@Yuchenj_UW) April 4, 2026

LLM Wiki v2 — extending Karpathy's LLM Wiki pattern with lessons from building agentmemory

LLM Wiki v2 — extending Karpathy's LLM Wiki pattern with lessons from building agentmemory · GitHub

I Built a Knowledge Base That Writes Itself. Here Is What Andrej Karpathy Got Right.

Andrej Karpathy posted about using LLMs to build personal knowledge bases. I took his workflow, wired it into my Obsidian vault with Claude Code, and within an hour had 21 cross-linked wiki articles compiled from YouTube transcripts. Here is how it works and why it matters.

Build an LLM Wiki for Your AI Agents

Build an LLM Wiki for Your AI Agents with myKG and Obsidian How to turn a folder of mixed format documents into a typed, interlinked knowledge graph your agents can actually read — using myKG and …

Karpathy shares 'LLM Knowledge Base' architecture that bypasses RAG with an evolving markdown library maintained by AI

Karpathy proposes something simpler and more loosely, messily elegant than the typical enterprise solution of a vector database and RAG pipeline.

Karpathy's LLM Wiki: The Complete Guide to His Idea File

Karpathy's follow-up gist went viral. Complete breakdown with implementation examples.

What is LLM Wiki Pattern? Persistent Knowledge with LLM Wikis

FULL CREDIT :Andrej Karpathy