---
id: Pratiyush/llm-wiki/llmwiki-query
version: "25636b86"
license: MIT
install: manual
updated: 2026-06-18
---

# llmwiki-query — This skill searches your local llmwiki—a knowledge base built from your Claude Code, Cursor, and other session history—to answer questions about your own work and decisions. It reads relevant wiki pages, synthesizes answers with inline citations, and can save substantial responses as new synthesis pages for future reference.

Publisher: Pratiyush · Stars: 351 · Updated: 2026-06-18

Install (manual): `git clone https://github.com/Pratiyush/llm-wiki`

## SKILL.md

# llmwiki-query

## What this skill does

Reads the user's local llmwiki (`llmwiki/wiki/`) and synthesises an answer to their question, with `[[wikilink]]` citations pointing to the source pages.

## When to use

Invoke this skill when the user asks a question about their own work or history. Examples:

- "What did I decide about the AiShorts backend?"
- "What MCP servers do I have configured?"
- "How did I fix the X bug last week?"
- "What's my preferred way to ingest sessions?"
- "What have I been working on in the germanly project?"

Do NOT invoke for questions that can be answered without the user's personal knowledge base (e.g., "how does TCP work?" → answer from general knowledge).

## Workflow

Follow the **Query Workflow** from the repo's `CLAUDE.md`:

1. **Locate the llmwiki install** (see `llmwiki-sync` skill for the fallback search order).

2. **Read `wiki/index.md`** to identify the set of pages that might be relevant.

3. **Read `wiki/overview.md`** to get the living synthesis context.

4. **Pick the most relevant pages** (sources, entities, concepts) based on the question.

5. **Read those pages** with the Read tool.

6. **Synthesise an answer** with inline `[[wikilink]]` citations. Quote directly from source pages when the wording matters.

7. **If the answer is substantial** (3+ paragraphs), ask the user whether to save it as a synthesis page:
   ```markdown
   Would you like me to save this as wiki/syntheses/<slug>.md for future reference?
   ```
   If yes, write it using the Synthesis Page Format from CLAUDE.md.

8. **Append to `wiki/log.md`**:
   ```
   ## [YYYY-MM-DD] query | <short question>
   ```

## Fallback behavior

If the wiki has no relevant pages:

1. Tell the user "I don't see anything about this in your wiki yet."
2. Suggest running `/wiki-sync` to pull in any recent sessions that might cover the topic.
3. If the topic is unlikely to be in session history, offer to answer from general knowledge (and make that explicit: "this is general knowledge, not from your wiki").

## Don't do

- Don't make up wiki pages that don't exist.
- Don't confuse general knowledge with wiki content in the answer.
- Don't over-cite — if the whole answer comes from one page, cite once at the top.
- Don't write a wall of text. The answer should be as short as the question allows.


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