llm-knowledge-base

What it is

This site. llm-knowledge-base is a public, LLM-maintained second brain: source material goes in, and durable, linked markdown notes come out — each pass leaving the base a little more useful. It is an Obsidian vault published to the web with Quartz, and a running experiment in using LLM agents to maintain a knowledge base over time.

How it’s built

The vault lives in Obsidian; Quartz compiles it to a static site on GitHub Pages. The wiki is organized as a pipeline — raw sources are compiled into concept, technique, and synthesis pages, cross-linked so the graph stays navigable. LLM agents do much of the compilation, health-checking, and synthesis, working against an operating contract that keeps private material out of the public build.

What worked

Treating the knowledge base as the primary surface — the place daily thinking actually happens — is what made it stick. Durable pages beat re-deriving the same answers, and a public-by-default stance forces clarity. Agent contracts plus publish guards let me work in the open without leaking private notes or finances.

Lessons

• Accumulation beats archiving. The value lives in pages that get reused and revised, not in a pile of captured sources. The pipeline exists to turn raw input into something a future question can build on.
• Keep the human in the loop. The base amplifies thinking; it does not replace it. The open problem is keeping the first brain active while the second brain gets stronger.
• Guardrails make openness safe. A clear public/private split and automated publish guards are what let an LLM-maintained vault live on the open internet.

Status

Current. Actively maintained — this Projects section is part of it.