This is mostly a thin clintypescript wrapper around the prompts. This could have been a SKILL
Yeah I went looking:
https://github.com/langchain-ai/openwiki/blob/main/src/agent...
OpenWiki: CLI that writes and maintains agent documentation for your codebase
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Re: OpenWiki: CLI that writes and maintains agent documentation for your codebase
#22I think it's own sub-dir OpenWiki serves as an example of the sort of output you might get:
https://github.com/langchain-ai/openwiki/blob/main/openwiki/...
I agree with others this seems somewhat over-engineered; you can get similar results with a good prompt/skill; I guess the rest of the implementation here is intended as an agent-maintainer.
Re: OpenWiki: CLI that writes and maintains agent documentation for your codebase
#23This is mostly a thin clintypescript wrapper around the prompts. This could have been a SKILL
it's langchain, what did you expect
Re: OpenWiki: CLI that writes and maintains agent documentation for your codebase
#24We need to make an effort to distinguish “this is a thing for humans” vs “this is a thing for bots” in our naming IMHO. In that respect, “open wiki” is not such a great name. “Agent Wiki” or similar would be better. Without such a qualifier, “wiki” carries a strong connotation of (usually collaborative) human involvement. That’s literally what it’s famous for. Thats just my $0.02 on the naming. I definitely think it’…
I recently noticed people think "wiki" is a set of deeply interlinked documents. But to me it means ability to edit without logging in.
Re: OpenWiki: CLI that writes and maintains agent documentation for your codebase
#25We need to make an effort to distinguish “this is a thing for humans” vs “this is a thing for bots” in our naming IMHO. In that respect, “open wiki” is not such a great name. “Agent Wiki” or similar would be better. Without such a qualifier, “wiki” carries a strong connotation of (usually collaborative) human involvement. That’s literally what it’s famous for. Thats just my $0.02 on the naming. I definitely think it’…
I recently noticed people think "wiki" is a set of deeply interlinked documents. But to me it means ability to edit without logging in.
I don't know of any wikis that let you edit without logging in. That is simply not viable, it'd be like trying to live without an immune system.
Re: OpenWiki: CLI that writes and maintains agent documentation for your codebase
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
> maintaining an LLM wiki has been a lot more effort than I thought Same here. Wikis start out good, but either devolve in a journal-y mess after a while and many updates, or require constant expensive rewrites. (I didn't use the software of the OP.)
Wikis start out good, but get stale too quick and become useless or worse confusing. I’ve experienced this over and over again to strongly believe it. I genuinely wonder if throwing LLMs at this problem would solve it at least to some extent. Make a LLM agent whose sole purpose is to act as a librarian. It periodically reviews _all_ of the wiki and validates them against codebases, newer docs, anything. Whatever it f…
In short, yes. The effort will amortize for a larger team over longer time period.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
I recently noticed people think "wiki" is a set of deeply interlinked documents. But to me it means ability to edit without logging in.
I don't know of any wikis that let you edit without logging in. That is simply not viable, it'd be like trying to live without an immune system.
Wikipedia?
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know of any wikis that let you edit without logging in. That is simply not viable, it'd be like trying to live without an immune system.
Wikipedia?
You try that in 2026 and not only is your changes getting rolled back but your IP address is likely banned in advance anyway. Though to be fair I hear that even logged in your changes get rolled back, something about "reddit style moderators power tripping".
Though on the naming definition I think wiki is a good term for interlinking documents about _something_. I often associate the term wiki with game wikis, which more often than not at least require some form of account to edit. Wikipedia feels like an outlier (both in not being specific to any topic as well as technically allowing anonymous edits) even if it presumably is the first/originator of the name!