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Know it now. Keep it forever.

A local-first personal knowledge base you feed sources into, an LLM compiles into a structured wiki, and you query through any AI tool via MCP.

Inspired by Andrej Karpathy's LLM Wiki pattern.

You collect stuff --> LLM organizes it --> You query it --> Knowledge compounds

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Pages

1. Why WikiNow: From Idea to Published Package -- The problem, the Karpathy insight, why this exists
2. Architecture -- Data flow, self-healing sync, schema evolution, package map
3. CLI Commands -- All 14 commands with usage
4. MCP Tools -- All 21 tools for the host AI
5. Source Types -- URLs, YouTube, PDF, epub, audio, text
6. Database -- Self-healing SQLite FTS5 cache
7. Configuration -- config.yaml, env vars, defaults
8. Obsidian Integration -- Graph view, backlinks, wikilinks
9. Testing -- 170 tests, ruff, how to run

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Quick Links

Install	pip install wikinow
PyPI	pypi.org/project/wikinow
GitHub	github.com/LangModule/wikinow
License	MIT