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Tactic for compiling research findings into vault pages — orchestrates page creation, updates, edge linking, and index maintenance. Minimum yield ≥3 page operations per invocation.

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Knowledge Compilation

Compile research findings into structured vault pages. Triggered after each strategy completes, or when CC judges accumulated information density warrants compilation.

Available SOPs

  • wiki-search — check for existing pages before creating duplicates
  • wiki-ingest-source — write immutable source pages
  • wiki-compile-page — create/update wiki pages with edges
  • wiki-add-edge — create typed relationships between pages
  • wiki-lint-fix — run lint in report mode at end

Guiding Principles

  • Assess before acting. Scan incoming material. Identify what's new vs what updates existing pages.
  • Deduplication first. Always search before creating. Near-duplicates should be merged, not added.
  • Edges are first-class. Every new page should have at least one edge connecting it to the existing graph. Orphans are failures.
  • Source immutability. Source pages capture raw material verbatim. Wiki pages synthesize and evolve.
  • Batch efficiency. Group related operations. Create all pages for a concept cluster, then wire edges, then index once.

Minimum Yield

Execution Guidance

CC has full autonomy over:

  • Which SOPs to invoke and in what order
  • Whether to spawn a subagent for complex ingest decisions
  • How to partition material across pages
  • When to create new pages vs update existing ones

Typical flow (reference, not prescription):

  1. Search vault for existing coverage of incoming topics
  2. Decide page operations: new sources, new wiki pages, updates, edges
  3. Execute operations via SOPs
  4. Run vault_lint (report mode) to verify no broken links introduced

Context-Management Integration

After compilation completes, trigger context-checkpoint to persist vault state changes to the context layer.

Available SOPs

Optional, no fixed order; the final leaf is always a sop.

SOPWhen to use
wiki-add-edgeSOP wrapping vault_add_edge — create a typed relationship between two vault pages.
wiki-compile-pageSOP for wiki page creation/update — create or update a synthesized wiki page with edges and index update.
wiki-edge-auditSOP for auditing wikilink coverage — scans all edges and reports which source pages are missing [[dir/slug]] wikilinks to their targets.
wiki-graph-querySOP wrapping vault_query_graph — traverse knowledge graph from a node to explore its neighborhood and context.
wiki-ingest-sourceSOP for source page creation — write immutable source page capturing raw material, then update search index.
wiki-lint-fixSOP wrapping vault_lint — run batch validation, report issues, optionally auto-fix safe problems.
wiki-searchSOP wrapping vault_search — BM25 full-text search across vault pages. Returns ranked results with snippets.