Wiki Enrich: Fill Paper TODO Sections (Karpathy LLM-Wiki)
Target: $ARGUMENTS
Why this skill exists
ingest_paper (called by /research-lit, /arxiv, /alphaxiv, /deepxiv, /semantic-scholar, /exa-search) only renders the per-paper scaffold — frontmatter + abstract + 10 fillable _TODO._ placeholder sections (plus two protected sections: ## Connections is graph-summary and ## Abstract (original) is auto-populated when --arxiv-id is given). No downstream skill in ARIS fills those 10 sections; the wiki sits as TODO until someone reads each paper.
This contradicts the Karpathy LLM-wiki design (https://gist.github.com/karpathy/442a6bf555914893e9891c11519de94f):
"You never (or rarely) write the wiki yourself — the LLM writes and maintains all of it. … The tedious part of maintaining a knowledge base is not the reading or the thinking — it's the bookkeeping. … LLMs don't get bored, don't forget to update a cross-reference, and can touch 15 files in one pass."
/wiki-enrich is the missing back half of ingest_paper: it reads each scaffolded paper page, fetches paper content from external sources via a graceful fallback chain (see Phase 2.3 for the full 5-source chain), and rewrites the 10 fillable TODO sections into 1-3 sentence prose summaries.
Constants
- WIKI_ROOT =
research-wiki/— Resolved relative to git root. Skill hard-fails if not a directory. - TARGET_DEFAULT =
missing— When no target is given, enrich only papers with ≥1 TODO section. Other targets:<slug>(one paper) orall(every paper, even ones already enriched — usually combined with--forceto overwrite). - SOURCE_DEFAULT =
auto— Fetch order: alphaxiv overview → alphaxiv abs → deepxiv brief → arXiv API abstract → page abstract fallback. First non-empty wins (full chain documented in Phase 2.3 table). Override with--sourceto pin one source. - MAX_PAPERS = 20 — Hard cap per invocation; LLMs touch many files but token budgets are real. Override with
--max N. - FORCE = false — When
false(default), skip sections that already have non-TODO content. Whentrue, overwrite every fillable section, but never touch the two protected sections:## Connections(auto-generated fromedges.jsonl) and## Abstract (original)(immutable arXiv-fetched source data). - SECTIONS_TO_FILL — 10 fillable sections + 2 protected.
ingest_paper(research_wiki.py:436-473) scaffolds 11 section headers unconditionally and a 12th —## Abstract (original)— only when arXiv returns an abstract for the given--arxiv-id(research_wiki.py:469-473). Of these, 10 carry a_TODO._(or_TODO: fill in after reading._) marker and need filling. The other 2 —## Connections(position 10 in the enumeration below) and## Abstract (original)(position 12, conditional) — are protected by construction:Connectionsis auto-generated fromgraph/edges.jsonl,Abstract (original)is immutable source data from the arXiv API. This skill writes to the 10, never the 2.One-line thesis(marker:_TODO: fill in after reading._)Problem / Gap(marker:_TODO._)Method(marker:_TODO._)Key Results(marker:_TODO._)Assumptions(marker:_TODO._)Limitations / Failure Modes(marker:_TODO._)Reusable Ingredients(marker:_TODO._)Open Questions(marker:_TODO._)Claims(marker:_TODO._) — fill with_No claims tracked yet._if noclaim:edges point to this paper; otherwise list them.Connections— NEVER edit (auto-generated fromgraph/edges.jsonl).Relevance to This Project(marker:_TODO._) — useRESEARCH_BRIEF.md,CLAUDE.md, orgap_map.mdfor project context. If no project context exists, leave as TODO and report it.Abstract (original)— leave alone (already populated byingest_paperwhen--arxiv-idwas used).
💡 Examples:
/wiki-enrich— enrich every paper with ≥1 TODO section (most common usage)/wiki-enrich vllm— enrich a single paper by slug/wiki-enrich all --force— rewrite every paper from scratch (use when you've adopted a new style)/wiki-enrich --source alphaxiv --max 5— only use alphaxiv, only do 5 papers/wiki-enrich missing --max 50— bigger batch (watch token budget)
Pre-flight
Resolve $WIKI_ROOT and $WIKI_SCRIPT (canonical chain — see shared-references/wiki-helper-resolution.md):
cd "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null || pwd)" || exit 1
[ -d research-wiki/ ] || { echo "ERROR: research-wiki/ not found. Run /research-wiki init first." >&2; exit 1; }
ARIS_REPO="${ARIS_REPO:-$(awk -F'\t' '$1=="repo_root"{print $2; exit}' .aris/installed-skills.txt 2>/dev/null)}"
WIKI_SCRIPT=".aris/tools/research_wiki.py"
[ -f "$WIKI_SCRIPT" ] || WIKI_SCRIPT="tools/research_wiki.py"
[ -f "$WIKI_SCRIPT" ] || { [ -n "${ARIS_REPO:-}" ] && WIKI_SCRIPT="$ARIS_REPO/tools/research_wiki.py"; }
[ -f "$WIKI_SCRIPT" ] || { echo "ERROR: research_wiki.py not found." >&2; exit 1; }
If either fails, hard-fail — this skill manipulates wiki state and must not run blind.
Workflow
Phase 1: Parse target + discover candidates
Parse $ARGUMENTS for the first positional (target) and flags (--source, --force, --max).
Build the candidate paper list:
case "$TARGET" in
all)
PAPERS=( research-wiki/papers/*.md )
;;
missing|"")
# only papers with at least one TODO marker line
PAPERS=( $(grep -lE "^_TODO(\._?|: fill in after reading\._?)$" research-wiki/papers/*.md 2>/dev/null) )
;;
*)
P="research-wiki/papers/${TARGET}.md"
[ -f "$P" ] || { echo "ERROR: paper not found: $P" >&2; exit 1; }
PAPERS=( "$P" )
;;
esac
echo "Candidate papers: ${#PAPERS[@]} (cap ${MAX_PAPERS})"
PAPERS=( "${PAPERS[@]:0:${MAX_PAPERS}}" )
If the candidate list is empty, print "✓ Nothing to enrich." and exit 0. Do not error.
Phase 2: For each paper — read, fetch, fill
Iterate one paper at a time. For each $PAPER in $PAPERS:
Step 2.1 — Read the page and project context. Use the Read tool on the full paper file. Extract from the YAML frontmatter:
node_id(e.g.paper:vllm) — slug = part afterpaper:arxivfromexternal_ids.arxiv— empty string if absenttitle- existing
## Abstract (original)blockquote (if present) — fallback content source
Additionally, on the FIRST paper of the batch (cache for the rest), read project-context files needed for the Claims and Relevance to This Project sections:
research-wiki/graph/edges.jsonl— scan forclaim:edges pointing to the current paper'snode_idRESEARCH_BRIEF.md(project root) — if present, source for project goalsCLAUDE.md(project root) — if present, fallback for project contextresearch-wiki/gap_map.md— if non-empty, source for gap framing
If none of the project-context files exist, the Relevance to This Project section will be filled with the literal "context not yet set" line (see Step 2.4 table).
Step 2.2 — Identify which sections are TODO.
Match each section header against its marker:
- A header followed by exactly
_TODO._→ fill - A header followed by
_TODO: fill in after reading._→ fill (One-line thesis) - A header followed by any other content → skip (unless
--force) ## Connections→ always skip (auto-generated)## Abstract (original)→ always skip (immutable source data)
If no fillable sections remain, log "skip: <slug> (already enriched)" and continue.
Step 2.3 — Fetch source content.
The fetch chain runs in order until one returns usable content (>200 chars of text):
| Order | Source | How |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | alphaxiv overview (auto default; --source alphaxiv to pin) | WebFetch https://alphaxiv.org/overview/<arxiv_id>.md — LLM-optimized summary, often best for filling sections |
| 2 | alphaxiv abs (fallback within alphaxiv) | WebFetch https://alphaxiv.org/abs/<arxiv_id>.md |
| 3 | deepxiv brief (--source deepxiv to pin) | python3 "$DEEPXIV_FETCHER" paper-brief <arxiv_id> if helper resolves |
| 4 | arXiv API abstract — fresh fetch (--source arxiv to pin) | curl http://export.arxiv.org/api/query?id_list=<arxiv_id> — log label: arxiv-api-abstract |
| 5 | Page abstract — fallback (last resort) | Reuse the existing ## Abstract (original) blockquote already present in the page body from a prior ingest_paper run — log label: page-abstract-fallback |
| — | No arxiv id + no page abstract | Skip this paper, log "skip: <slug> (no arxiv id, no abstract)", continue |
When trying alphaxiv: if WebFetch returns 404 / "Paper not found" / a redirect to the homepage, treat as miss and fall through.
When trying deepxiv: resolve $DEEPXIV_FETCHER per shared-references/integration-contract.md. If the helper or deepxiv CLI is missing, fall through silently.
Save the fetched content as $SOURCE_TEXT. Record which source succeeded for the log entry.
Step 2.4 — Generate per-section content.
You (Claude) are the LLM doing the grunt work. Given:
$SOURCE_TEXT(the fetched overview / brief / abstract)$TITLE- the list of fillable section headers
Write each TODO section's body following these rules:
| Section | Length | Style | What to extract |
|---|---|---|---|
| One-line thesis | 1 sentence, ≤25 words | Declarative | The paper's core contribution in one sentence — what they built / proved / improved |
| Problem / Gap | 1-2 sentences | Declarative | What problem the field had, why prior work fell short |
| Method | 2-4 sentences | Technical, name the technique | Core mechanism — algorithm name + key idea + how it differs from baselines |
| Key Results | 1-3 bullets OR 2-3 sentences | Quantitative | Headline numbers from the abstract / overview (X% improvement, Yx speedup, etc.). Keep units verbatim. |
| Assumptions | 1-3 bullets | Declarative | What the paper takes for granted (workload type, hardware, model class, distribution shape) |
| Limitations / Failure Modes | 1-3 bullets | Honest | What the paper explicitly admits OR what's structurally absent (e.g. "no multi-node evaluation", "assumes uniform request length") |
| Reusable Ingredients | 1-3 bullets | Concrete | Techniques / datasets / insights from this paper that could be ported elsewhere. Highest value for /idea-creator — write carefully. |
| Open Questions | 1-2 bullets | Question form | What the paper does NOT answer but raises |
| Claims | 1 line | Static | If no claim: edges in graph/edges.jsonl reference this paper, write the literal italic line: _No claims tracked yet — populate via /result-to-claim._. Else list claim node IDs. |
| Relevance to This Project | 1-2 sentences | Project-contextual | Use RESEARCH_BRIEF.md / CLAUDE.md / gap_map.md to phrase the connection. If no project context, write the literal italic line: _Project context not yet set — populate RESEARCH_BRIEF.md or gap_map.md to enable this section._ and report. |
Rules (Karpathy fidelity):
- Faithful to source. If the paper doesn't say it, don't invent it. Prefer
_Not stated in source._over hallucination. - No filler. "This paper presents an approach to..." — don't write that. Start with the noun.
- Keep technical terms in English. vLLM, KV cache, prefill, decode, TTFT, etc. stay verbatim.
- Quantitative when possible. If the abstract has numbers, use them; don't paraphrase as "significant".
- Bilingual support. If the project's
CLAUDE.mddeclares a language preference (language: zhorlanguage: bilingual), match it. Otherwise default to English (or followshared-references/output-language.md).
Step 2.5 — Edit the file.
For each fillable section, use the Edit tool to replace the TODO marker with the generated body. Match the exact section header + marker pair to keep edits unique, e.g.:
## Problem / Gap
_TODO._
→
## Problem / Gap
<generated body>
Never touch the YAML frontmatter, ## Connections, or ## Abstract (original).
Step 2.6 — Append log entry.
python3 "$WIKI_SCRIPT" log research-wiki/ "wiki-enrich: enriched paper:<slug> from <source> (filled N/M sections)"
Record which source provided content (alphaxiv-overview, alphaxiv-abs, deepxiv-brief, arxiv-api-abstract, or page-abstract-fallback) so the audit trail is honest about provenance.
Phase 3: Final report
After processing all candidates, print:
✓ wiki-enrich complete
Processed: N
Enriched: X (sections filled: total)
Skipped: Y (reasons: already enriched / no arxiv id / fetch failed)
Failed: Z (with paper + reason)
Source breakdown:
alphaxiv-overview: A
alphaxiv-abs: B
deepxiv-brief: C
arxiv-api-abstract: D
page-abstract-fallback: E
Re-ideation suggestion: <if ≥5 papers were enriched, recommend `/idea-creator "topic"` so the freshly-filled `Reusable Ingredients` and `Limitations` feed brainstorming. `query_pack.md` is already rebuilt below — the user does NOT need to call `/research-wiki query` manually.>
Also rebuild query_pack.md once at the end (single python3 "$WIKI_SCRIPT" rebuild_query_pack research-wiki/ call) so /idea-creator sees the new bodies on its next run.
Output Protocols
Follow the shared protocols:
- No
MANIFEST.mdentry. This skill edits existing scaffolded pages in place rather than generating new artifacts. The audit trail lives inresearch-wiki/log.md(Step 2.6), with provenance per paper. Adding awiki-enrichstage toshared-references/output-manifest.mdis out of scope for this PR.- Output Language Protocol — respect the project's language setting.
Key Rules
- Idempotent by default. Re-running without
--forceonly touches still-TODO sections. Safe to invoke as a cron. - Never touch frontmatter,
## Connections, or## Abstract (original). Frontmatter is metadata, Connections is graph-generated, Abstract is immutable source data. - Hard-fail on missing wiki / missing helper. Do not silently create
research-wiki/— if it's missing, the user is in the wrong cwd or hasn't run/research-wiki init. - Track provenance. Every log entry records which source actually filled the body. If a future audit shows alphaxiv hallucinated for a paper, you can find every page touched by that source.
- Don't auto-trigger
/idea-creator. This skill builds the substrate; the user decides when to brainstorm next. Only suggest re-ideation in the final report. - Gracefully degrade. If
WebFetchis rate-limited, fall through to next source. If all sources miss, skip the paper and continue — don't abort the whole batch. - Karpathy fidelity above completeness. It is better to leave a section as
_Not stated in source._than to hallucinate. The wiki's value is that it doesn't lie.
Composing with Other Skills
/research-lit "topic" ← ingests papers as scaffolds (Step 6)
/wiki-enrich ← THIS — fills paper bodies (you are here)
/research-wiki lint ← health-check (orphans, contradictions, dead ideas)
/idea-creator "direction" ← reads query_pack, ideates on top of enriched wiki
/research-wiki query "topic" ← rebuild query_pack after big wiki changes
After a fresh /research-pipeline run leaves Stage 1 Phase 1 done but Phase 2 not started (the failure mode that prompted this skill), the recovery path is:
/wiki-enrich # fill the paper TODOs ingest_paper left behind
/idea-creator "..." # now ideate with a wiki that actually has content