/research-wiki

name: research-wiki
description: "Persistent research knowledge base that accumulates papers, ideas, experiments, claims, and their relationships across the entire research lifecycle. Inspired by Karpathy's LLM Wiki pattern. Use when user says \"知识库\", \"research wiki\", \"add paper\", \"wiki query\", \"查知识库\", or wants to build/query a persistent field map."
argument-hint: "[subcommand: init|ingest|sync|query|update|lint|stats]"
allowed-tools: Bash(*), Read, Write, Edit, Grep, Glob, WebSearch, WebFetch, mcp__codex__codex, mcp__codex__codex-reply

Research Wiki: Persistent Research Knowledge Base

Subcommand: **$ARGUMENTS**

Overview

The research wiki is a persistent, per-project knowledge base that accumulates structured knowledge across the entire ARIS research lifecycle. Unlike one-off literature surveys that are used and forgotten, the wiki **compounds** — every paper read, idea tested, experiment run, and review received makes the wiki smarter.

Inspired by [Karpathy's LLM Wiki pattern](https://gist.github.com/karpathy/442a6bf555914893e9891c11519de94f): compile knowledge once, keep it current, don't re-derive on every query.

Core Concepts

Four Entity Types

| Entity | Directory | Node ID format | What it represents | |--------|-----------|---------------|--------------------| | **Paper** | `papers/` | `paper:<slug>` | A published or preprint research paper | | **Idea** | `ideas/` | `idea:<id>` | A research idea (proposed, tested, or failed) | | **Experiment** | `experiments/` | `exp:<id>` | A concrete experiment run with results | | **Claim** | `claims/` | `claim:<id>` | A theorem/headline with an honest PROOF status — born via `/proof-checker` (see Hook 4) |

Typed Relationships (`graph/edges.jsonl`)

| Edge type | From → To | Meaning | |-----------|-----------|---------| | `extends` | paper → paper | Builds on prior work | | `contradicts` | paper → paper | Disagrees with results/claims | | `addresses_gap` | paper\|idea → gap | Targets a known field gap | | `inspired_by` | idea → paper | Idea sourced from this paper | | `tested_by` | idea\|claim → exp | Tested in this experiment | | `supports` | exp → claim\|idea | Experiment confirms claim | | `invalidates` | exp → claim\|idea | Experiment disproves claim | | `supersedes` | paper → paper | Newer work replaces older |

Edges are stored in `graph/edges.jsonl` only. The `## Connections` section on each page is **auto-generated** from the graph — never hand-edit it.

Capture hygiene (anti-self-poisoning)

Before persisting an **idea / claim / experiment** note, screen it for operational noise that would harden into a self-cited falsehood (see [`shared-references/capture-antipatterns.md`](../shared-references/capture-antipatterns.md)). Resolve the helper via the canonical chain (integration-contract §2): `.aris/tools/capture_filter.py` → `tools/capture_filter.py` → `$ARIS_REPO/tools/capture_filter.py` (warn-and-skip if unresolved). Run `python3 <capture_filter> -` on the note text; if it flags **env-failure / transient-error / negative-tool-claim**, do NOT store it as a durable node — rewrite it to the *fix / missing config / workaround*, or drop it. Never store "codex/gemini/the reviewer can't do X" — that gets loaded into every future session and cited against the agent long after the real cause is gone. (The wiki's "failed ideas → anti-repeat memory" is the GOOD inverse: a class-level *research* finding, not operational noise.)

Wiki Directory Structure

research-wiki/
  index.md               # categorical index (auto-generated)
  log.md                 # append-only timeline
  gap_map.md             # field gaps with stable IDs (G1, G2, ...)
  query_pack.md          # compressed summary for /idea-creator (auto-generated, max 8000 chars)
  papers/
    <slug>.md            # one page per paper
  ideas/
    <idea_id>.md         # one page per idea
  experiments/
    <exp_id>.md          # one page per experiment
  claims/
    <claim_id>.md        # one page per testable claim
  graph/
    edges.jsonl          # materialized current relationship graph

Subcommands

Helper resolution (run before any subcommand below)

All wiki operations except plain directory bootstrap go through a single canonical helper, `tools/research_wiki.py`. Skills that touch the wiki must resolve `$WIKI_SCRIPT` via the chain below — never hard-code `python3 tools/research_wiki.py …`. Hard-coding silently fails when the project does not have `tools/` on disk (the post-`install_aris.sh` default), which is exactly the failure mode that left a real user's `research-wiki/` empty for a week.

cd "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null || pwd)" || exit 1
ARIS_REPO="${ARIS_REPO:-$(awk -F'\t' '$1=="repo_root"{print $2; exit}' .aris/installed-skills.txt 2>/dev/null)}"
if [ -z "${ARIS_REPO:-}" ] && [ -f "$HOME/.aris/repo" ]; then
  ARIS_REPO=$(cat "$HOME/.aris/repo" 2>/dev/null) || true
fi
WIKI_SCRIPT=".aris/tools/research_wiki.py"
[ -f "$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 at .aris/tools/, tools/, \$ARIS_REPO/tools/, or via ~/.aris/repo." >&2
  echo "       Fix one of:" >&2
  echo "         1. rerun 'bash tools/install_aris.sh' from the ARIS repo (creates .aris/tools symlink, refreshes ~/.aris/repo)" >&2
  echo "         2. rerun 'bash tools/smart_update.sh' (refreshes ~/.aris/repo)" >&2
  echo "         3. export ARIS_REPO=<path-to-ARIS-repo>" >&2
  echo "         4. cp <ARIS-repo>/tools/research_wiki.py tools/" >&2
  exit 1
}

`/research-wiki` itself is the wiki tool — if the helper is missing the skill **hard-fails**. Caller skills that update the wiki as a side effect (`/idea-creator`, `/result-to-claim`, `/research-lit`, `/arxiv`, `/alphaxiv`, `/deepxiv`, `/semantic-scholar`, `/exa-search`, `/firecrawl-search`)