| name | wiki-graph-health |
| category | wiki |
| description | Comprehensive wiki health checking, maintenance, and remediation — duplicate detection, entity dedup/disambiguation, link auditing/fixing, page splitting, source-linking lint, wikilink remediation, tag taxonomy audit and normalization, pre-commit enforcement, language enforcement (JP→EN bulk translation, detection regex, cron-assisted migration), and decision-matrix-driven cleanup. |
Wiki Health & Maintenance (umbrella)
This umbrella skill covers all wiki health, maintenance, and remediation operations. Sub-sections below address specific task types.
Core: Graph Health Detection Patterns
Uses scripts/wiki_graph.py output to detect wiki data quality issues.
CRITICAL: Index.md Pipe Corruption Pattern (Discovered 2026-05-10)
Symptom: Lines like |- [[entities/foo]] instead of - [[entities/foo]] in index.md
Root cause: read_file output with N| line numbers accidentally pasted into files via patch operations
Detection: grep -c '^\s*\d+\|' wiki/index.md — returns count of corrupted lines
Fix:
import re
with open("wiki/index.md") as f: content = f.read()
lines = content.split('\n')
cleaned = [line for line in lines if not re.match(r'^\s*\d+\|##', line)]
fixed = re.sub(r'^\|-\s+\[\[(?:entities|concepts|comparisons|queries)/',
lambda m: '- [[' + m.group(0)[4:], content, flags=re.MULTILINE)
Verify: grep -c "^\s*\d+\|" wiki/index.md should return 0 after fix
Index Header Count Decay
WARNING: The "Total pages: N" and section counts in index.md header become stale quickly at scale (1000+ pages). Discrepancies of 600+ observed.
Always verify with filesystem: ls ~/wiki/concepts/*.md | wc -l — do NOT trust header numbers.
Auto-correct during lint: Re-compute counts from actual directory listing and update header.
Broken Wikilink Subdirectory vs Flat Path Issue
Pattern: Links like [[concepts/harness-engineering/agentic-engineering]] vs actual file concepts/agentic-engineering.md
Root cause: Subdirectory organization (concepts/harness-engineering/page.md) vs flat organization (concepts/page.md) confusion
Detection: For each broken link, check:
- Does file exist at exact path?
- Does file exist at flat path
concepts/<last-part>.md?
- Does file exist at subdirectory path
concepts/<first-part>/<last-part>.md?
Fix: Update link to point to actual file path, or create redirect stub if file exists elsewhere
1. Duplicate Entities (High Priority)
- Pattern: Two person/concept slugs with high similarity score (≥9.0) sharing multiple concepts/tags
- Examples:
samuel-colvin ↔ samuelcolvin (22.5), bclavie ↔ benjamin-clavi (9.0)
- Fix: Merge into single entity, update all wikilinks, redirect old slug
2. Missing Concept Links (Medium Priority)
- Pattern: Concept pairs with shared persons ≥2 but no direct wikilink
- Fix: Add
[[concept]] wikilinks between related concepts in both entity pages
3. Orphaned Entities (Low Priority)
- Pattern: Entities with 0 incoming/outgoing wikilinks, not listed in any index.md
- Fix: Add to concepts/_index.md or entities/_index.md (or main index.md)
4. Broken Wikilinks (High Priority)
CRITICAL: Distinguish genuine broken links from prefix-style links first. 458+ "broken" links may actually be valid or need different fixes.
NEW 2026-05-11: Subdirectory vs Flat Path Confusion
A major source of "broken" links is the mix of subdirectory organization (concepts/harness-engineering/page.md) and flat organization (concepts/page.md). Links like [[concepts/harness-engineering/agentic-engineering]] may point to files that exist at concepts/agentic-engineering.md instead.
- Detection: For each broken link with
/ in the target, check if the final segment exists as a flat file
- Fix: Update the wikilink to point to the actual file path, or create the subdirectory file if content should live there
- Scale impact: 458 broken links found, many due to this pattern
Three distinct sub-patterns:
Pattern A: Namespace errors ([[entities/X]] when X is a concept, or vice versa)
- Example:
[[entities/scc]] should be [[concepts/scc]], [[entities/datasette]] should be [[concepts/datasette]]
- Fix: Change the namespace prefix, not the slug
Pattern B: Slug mismatches (entity exists but with different name)
- Example:
[[entities/ben-clavie]] → [[entities/benjamin-clavie]], [[entities/jo-bergum]] → [[entities/jo-kristian-bergum]]
- Fix: Find the actual entity file, update the link
Pattern C: Missing entity stubs (frequently referenced but no page exists)
- Example:
[[entities/sourcegraph]], [[entities/stripe]], [[entities/notion]]
- Fix: Create minimal stub page with
status: stub and TODO marker
Two distinct sub-patterns:
Pattern A: [[link]] references pointing to non-existent files (genuine)
- Categories: wrong_path, raw_article_refs, wrong_case, unknown
- Fix: Use slug lookup table to find correct paths, apply
patch per file
Pattern B: Empty/zero-length wikilinks (- — description without [[slug]])
- Pattern: Lines in
## Related like - — Previous employer, Zephyr and TRL work where the [[slug]] anchor was lost
- Detection:
grep -rn '^- — ' entities/ concepts/ | wc -l
- Auto-fix:
scripts/fix_broken_wikilinks.py uses fuzzy word-overlap matching against all existing wiki pages
python3 scripts/fix_broken_wikilinks.py --apply --threshold 0.4 (recommended)- See
references/broken-wikilink-repair.md for detailed instructions and threshold guide
- Manual fix: Descriptions below threshold need human recognition of the intended slug
Sub-pattern C: Prefix-style wikilinks (false positives — valid Obsidian syntax)
- Pattern: Links like
[[concepts/agent-harness]] or [[entities/openai]] — wikilinks with path prefixes. These are valid in Obsidian/wiki tools and resolve to files in subdirectories. NOT broken.
- Categories:
concepts/ prefix, entities/ prefix, comparisons/ prefix, raw/ prefix, subdirectory paths like harness-engineering/system-architecture/
- Detection: To find genuinely missing pages (not these prefixes), write an analysis script:
import re, glob, os
from collections import Counter
all_links = []
for f in glob.glob('wiki/entities/*.md') + glob.glob('wiki/concepts/*.md') + glob.glob('wiki/comparisons/*.md'):
with open(f) as fh:
for m in re.findall(r'\[\[([^\]|]+)', fh.read()):
all_links.append(m)
existing = set()
for root, dirs, files in os.walk('wiki'):
for f in files:
existing.add(os.path.splitext(f)[0])
missing = Counter()
for l in all_links:
slug = l.split('#')[0].split('|')[0]
if slug not in existing:
missing[l] += 1
for m, count in missing.most_common(50):
is_prefix = m.startswith(('entities/', 'concepts/', 'comparisons/', 'raw/'))
is_arxiv = (m[:2].isdigit() and len(m) <= 12)
print(f'{count:3d}x [{"PREFIX" if is_prefix else "REAL"}] [[{m}]]')
- Genuine count: Filter out prefix + arxiv entries. The remainder is the true broken-link count (often <5).
5. Pages Missing Frontmatter
Sub-pattern A: No frontmatter at all
- Pattern: Page starts with a heading
# Title or body content, no --- at line 1
- Fix: Prepend frontmatter with
title:, type:, created:, updated:, tags:, status: active
- Safety: Use
patch on the first line (prepend new content before it) or write_file to rewrite. Verify first 5 bytes with head -c 5 before and after.
Sub-pattern B: Line-number corruption (baked-in read_file format)
- Pattern: Page starts with
1|--- or 1|--- — line numbers from read_file output pasted into the file. Every line has a N| prefix baked in.
- Detection:
head -c 20 ~/wiki/concepts/korean-ai.md shows 1|--- or 1|--- instead of ---
- Fix (bulk strip all line-number prefixes):
import re
with open(path) as f: content = f.read()
cleaned = re.sub(r'^\s*\d+\|', '', content, flags=re.MULTILINE)
with open(path, 'w') as f: f.write(cleaned)
- Verify: First line must now be
--- (check with head -c 5). Frontmatter must close with ---.
6. Zero Outbound Links
- Pattern: Pages with no
[[wikilinks]] at all (not raw articles)
- Fix: Add
## See Also section and keyword-based related pages
7. Graph-Induced Cross-Link Remediation (Score-Order Workflow)
When the cron job wiki-graph-analysis produces a report with unlinked pairs:
Workflow:
python3 ~/ai-topics/scripts/wiki_graph.py — read the report- Process score-descending: highest score first (9.6 → 9.0 → 7.2 → 6.6 → ...)
- Differentiate person pairs vs concept pairs: person pairs = cross-links between entity pages; concept pairs = cross-links between concept pages
- For each pair: read both pages, find the
## Related or ## See Also section, add [[other-slug]] with a brief description
- Commit after each logical batch (not after every single pair)
- Re-run verification:
python3 ~/ai-topics/scripts/wiki_graph.py | grep -E "❌|🔗" to confirm fixes
Batch processing (efficiency technique):
- When many pairs cluster around the same person (e.g.,
drmaciver ↔ 3 people, anildash ↔ 3 people), process ALL partners in one edit to that person's page
- Use
delegate_task to process 10+ pairs in one batch — pass the full pair list with reading/editing instructions
- After delegate_task returns, verify by re-running the graph analysis
Dedup detection during graph review:
- High-score pairs (≥9.0) sharing project names (Flask, Jinja2) are likely the SAME person under GitHub handle vs real name
- Pattern:
mitsuhiko = Armin Ronacher (score 9.0) → merge, don't cross-link
- Always check:
search_files "[[handle-slug]]" to find incoming links before deciding merge vs cross-link
Concept redirect stubs:
- Some concept pages are just redirects:
concepts/agentic-engineering.md → Moved to [[concepts/harness-engineering/agentic-engineering]]
- When adding concept cross-links, use the redirect target path or the redirect slug (both work)
- Check file existence:
search_files target=files path=~/wiki/concepts pattern=...
Skip non-existent concept pairs:
- When ❌ pairs reference concept pages that don't exist yet, skip them
- Shared persons being sub-pages (e.g.,
drew-breunig--core-ideas) is a false positive from page splitting — skip
- These are artifacts, not real missing links
Watchdog Pipeline Timing — Verifying Health Report Claims
Discovered 2026-05-11: The wiki-watchdog-fix cron job runs AFTER wiki-health-fix in the pipeline. By the time the watchdog receives the health report, the wiki-health-fix step may have already repaired many of the reported issues (pipe corruption, triple brackets, line-number corruption, etc.).
Observation from the 2026-05-11 session: The watchdog context showed 2,248 pipe-prefixed lines in index.md, but live verification (grep -c '^|- \\[\\[' ~/wiki/index.md) returned 0. The wiki-health-fix step had already applied the regex fix between health report generation and watchdog invocation.
Procedure — always verify before acting:
- Read the health report for context, but don't trust its numbers as current state
- Verify all claimed issues with live
grep counts before taking action:
grep -c '^|- \\[\\[' ~/wiki/index.md
grep -c '\\[\\[\\[' ~/wiki/index.md
grep -c '^\\s*[0-9]\\+\\|' ~/wiki/index.md
python3 ~/ai-topics/scripts/validate_index.py
ls -1 ~/wiki/concepts/*.md | wc -l
- Only act on issues that are still present after verification
- Log what was already repaired upstream in the report — this confirms the pipeline is working
NEW 2026-05-13: Ghost entry false positives. Health reports may claim N ghost entries (index wikilinks pointing to non-existent files). Before acting:
- Run a recursive scan:
os.walk(wiki) instead of os.listdir() — subdirectory files (entities/omar-khattab/*, concepts/agent-team-swarm/*) are missed by flat scans
- Check
| display-text syntax: [[slug|Display Text]] is valid Obsidian syntax where slug IS the actual target
- Check for
_index.md files — these are real files and valid index entries
- Check
→ redirect syntax: Entries like [[entities/pi-coding-agent]] → [[entities/pi]] use a non-standard redirect pattern. The primary wikilink target (pi-coding-agent) has no file, but that's intentional — the redirect arrow points to the canonical page, and the slug is typically listed as an alias in the canonical page's frontmatter. This is NOT a ghost entry.
- In the 2026-05-13 session: 21 "ghost" entries all resolved to existing files when scanned recursively
Escalation pattern: If all reported corruption issues are already resolved by wiki-health-fix, the watchdog's value shifts from remediation to verification and gap reporting (header count mismatches, orphan pages, tag taxonomy drift, pipeline staleness). This is the expected behavior of a healthy pipeline.
Pitfall — wiki_health.py --json only detects structural index corruption. The --json output reports pipe prefixes, triple brackets, line-number corruption, and frontmatter syntax errors — but does NOT detect:
- Index-to-filesystem gaps (pages on disk with no index.md entry) — may be 30-48% of the wiki and entirely unreported
- Missing frontmatter fields (sources, type, tags, created) — no detection in JSON output
- Tag taxonomy violations — not included in the fast scan path
The 0.28s optimization (2026-05-13) traded content-validation breadth for speed. The watchdog MUST run its own independent checks for these gaps using os.walk() and frontmatter scanning (see references/watchdog-healthy-baseline.md §7 for the full verification checklist). Never trust a 0 count from wiki_health.py --json as authoritative for anything beyond index corruption.
Reference: references/watchdog-healthy-baseline.md defines the full verification checklist, metric thresholds, auto-fix scope limits, and decision flow for every watchdog run. Read this before starting any watchdog session.
Unified Wiki-Health Pipeline (Deployed 2026-05-13)
Background: The original 3-job pipeline (wiki-health → wiki-health-plan → wiki-health-fix) suffered from a race condition where fixed schedule offsets failed when wiki-health took 60-75 minutes. Both wiki-health and wiki-health-plan independently ran the same wiki_health.py script (no actual data dependency), wasting ~140 minutes of LLM time daily.
Resolution — single unified job:
BEFORE (3 jobs, fragile):
wiki-health (17:00) → wiki-health-plan (17:10) → wiki-health-fix (17:25)
↑ 74 min ↑ 68 min ↑ stale error
AFTER (1 job, robust):
wiki-health-fix (17:50)
↑ script: wiki_health_json.py → wiki_health.py --json (0.28s)
↑ scan → auto-fix → post-fix report in one agent run
↑ model: deepseek-v4-flash
↑ skills: llm-wiki, wiki-graph-health
Paused jobs (no longer needed):
wiki-health (07d1ccf7541a) — pausedwiki-health-plan (ac70e197fc75) — paused
Pitfall — script path resolution: The cron job config for wiki-health-fix references the script at /opt/data/.hermes/scripts/wiki_health_json.py, but the actual location is ~/ai-topics/scripts/wiki_health_json.py (resolves to /opt/data/ai-topics/scripts/wiki_health_json.py). If the job fails with Script not found:
Tier 1 — Permanent fix (preferred): Update the cron job definition to use the canonical path: ~/ai-topics/scripts/wiki_health_json.py. Use hermes cron edit <job-id> or hermes cron config set <job-id> script ~/ai-topics/scripts/wiki_health_json.py.
Tier 2 — Temp workaround (when cron config can't be immediately modified): Copy the script to where the cron expects it:
cp ~/ai-topics/scripts/wiki_health_json.py /opt/data/.hermes/scripts/wiki_health_json.py
⚠️ Document the workaround in log.md with a note that the cron definition still points to the wrong path. The copy will diverge from source if the canonical script is updated. Follow up with Tier 1 fix.
wiki_health.py optimization (0.28s vs minutes):
- Single-pass read:
load_l2_pages() now reads each file ONCE and retains both frontmatter AND full content. Previously section_unprocessed_raw() re-read all ~1,800 files to build a blob string.
- Set-based matching:
_build_referenced_stems() extracts raw article references from L2 content using prefix-scanning into a Python set. Previously used O(N×M) substring search (stem in giant_blob) against a ~10MB string for 5,868 raw articles.
--json flag: Structured JSON output for agent consumption (wiki_health.py --json). Includes index_corruption auto-detection (pipe prefix, line numbers, triple brackets, space prefix).- Wrapper:
scripts/wiki_health_json.py — calls wiki_health.py --json for cron pre-run scripts.
Index corruption auto-detection built into script output:
"index_corruption": {
"has_issues": false,
"issues": null
}
Issues detected: pipe_prefix, line_number_prefix, triple_bracket, space_prefix.
Automated Checks
python3 ~/ai-topics/scripts/wiki_graph.py --format json > /tmp/wiki_graph_full.json
Namespace Error Detection Pattern
When wiki_graph.py reports 240+ broken links, many are actually namespace errors:
[[entities/X]] where X is actually a concept → change to [[concepts/X]][[concepts/Y]] where Y is actually an entity → change to [[entities/Y]]- Detection: Build index of all valid entity/concept slugs, then check broken links against the opposite namespace
- Fix: Batch-replace with correct namespace prefix before creating stubs
HTML Visualization
python3 ~/ai-topics/scripts/wiki_graph.py --html
Section A: Health Remediation (decision-matrix-driven cleanup)
See references/wiki-health-remediation.md for full procedure.
A1: Duplicate Page Resolution
| Factor | Action |
|---|
| Partner is skeleton stub (<500 chars) | Delete stub, partner = canonical |
| Both have comparable depth | Keep more specific path, redirect root-level |
A2: Skeleton Pages (status: skeleton)
| Condition | Action |
|---|
| Partner file exists with rich content | Replace with redirect |
| Referenced by ≥3 pages | Expand with web search |
| <100 chars, no real content | Delete |
A3: Thin Pages (no skeleton marker but very short)
| Size | Action |
|---|
| <300 chars | Check for partner → redirect, else delete |
| 300-1000 chars | Check if referenced → redirect if partner exists, else expand |
A3b: Pre-Commit Tag Validation Blocking (CRITICAL)
Symptom: git commit fails with 🚨 TAG TAXONOMY VIOLATIONS — COMMIT BLOCKED even though your page content is correct.
Root Cause: The pre-commit hook (.githooks/pre-commit-tag-validator.py) validates ALL tags in ALL staged wiki pages against SCHEMA.md taxonomy. If ANY page (even an old one you didn't touch) uses a tag not in SCHEMA.md, the commit is blocked.
Resolution — two distinct cases:
Case 1: Genuine new tag — The tag is a real category that belongs in SCHEMA.md:
- Read the error output — it lists the exact files and tags causing violations
- Add missing tags to
wiki/SCHEMA.md in the appropriate category section
- Re-stage SCHEMA.md along with your changes:
git add wiki/SCHEMA.md wiki/...
- Commit again — the validator will pass
Case 2: Malformed/artifact tag — The tag is a YAML fragment that leaked into the tag list (e.g., type: is actually part of type: entity that got split into a separate list item; tags: alone as a list item). These tags are NOT valid categories and must be removed, not added to SCHEMA.md:
- Read the error output to identify the artifact tag
read_file path=~/wiki/entities/<file>.md — verify the frontmatter and confirm the tag is a fragment/artifact (not a legitimate category)patch to remove the artifact tag from the tags list- Re-stage the file and commit
- Do NOT add artifact tags like
type:, tags:, or unparsed YAML key fragments to SCHEMA.md — they are noise from broken frontmatter
Common Missing Tags (as of 2026-05-12): person, voice-ai, webrtc, moq, discord, protocols, sourcegraph
| Offending tag | Action |
|---|
type: (YAML key fragment) | Remove from tags (artifact, not a tag) — do NOT add to SCHEMA.md |
tags: as list item | Remove (artifact from broken frontmatter) |
| Other YAML fragment tags | Inspect read_file output — if it's clearly a YAML key that leaked into the list, remove it |
Proactive Check: Before committing wiki changes, run grep -rn '^ - ' wiki/entities/*.md wiki/concepts/*.md | grep -v SCHEMA to spot-check for tags that might not be in taxonomy.
A4: Tag Consolidation
When 500+ unique tags or malformed YAML tags deviate from SCHEMA taxonomy:
Phase 1 — Analyze: Use scripts/tag_normalization.py --dry-run to preview changes, or write a custom analysis script to see the tag distribution.
CRITICAL: Detect composite kebab-case tags — these are single tags that contain multiple words joined by hyphens (e.g., cognition-devin-memory-tool-claude-code-competitive-analysis). These are ALWAYS errors. Decompose them into individual tags (e.g., memory, context-management, competitive-analysis). Add frequent legitimate tags to SCHEMA.md taxonomy; flag rare ones for manual review.
Phase 2 — Build mapping: Edit scripts/tag_normalization.py's TAG_NORMALIZATION dict to add new synonym → canonical mappings. Rules:
- Plural → canonical:
evals → evaluation
- Synonym → canonical:
llm → model, finetuning → fine-tuning
- Case → lowercase:
RAG → rag, OpenAI → openai
- Very specific → category:
attention → model, docker → developer-tooling
- Add new canonical tags to
SCHEMA.md when needed
🛑 Phase 2.5 — Verify canonical targets exist in SCHEMA.md: Before applying the mapping, check that EVERY canonical target used as a value in new mappings is already in SCHEMA.md. Example: if you add 'symphony': 'harness-engineering', verify harness-engineering is in SCHEMA.md (it is). If you add 'aec': 'industry', verify industry is in SCHEMA.md — if not, add it to SCHEMA.md first. The pre-commit hook validates ALL tags including the canonical targets, so a missing target will block the commit. Quick check: grep -c '\`' ~/wiki/SCHEMA.md`.
Phase 3 — Apply: python3 /opt/data/.hermes/skills/wiki/wiki-graph-health/scripts/tag_normalization.py
⚠️ Phase 3 pitfall — Inline-format tags on the last frontmatter line.
The normalization script's regex ^tags:.*\n fails when the tags: field is the last line of the frontmatter block (no trailing \n before ---). This affects inline-format tags like tags: [entity, product, dgx-spark] when no frontmatter field follows. The script prints [MODIFIED] but the file is NOT actually changed (phantom modification).
Detection after normalization run: For any file you suspect was missed (inline format tags that should have been normalized but weren't), check if tags is on the last frontmatter line:
head -1 file.md && grep -nB1 '^---$' file.md | head -3
Manual fix: Patch the tag directly:
patch(old_string="tags: [old-tag]", new_string="tags: [canonical-tag]", path="file.md")
Script-level fix (applied 2026-05-18): The regex in tag_normalization.py was changed from r'^tags:.*\n(?:[ \t]+- .*\n?)*' to r'^tags:.*(?:\n|$)(?:[ \t]+- .*\n?)*' — the (?:\n|$) handles end-of-frontmatter. A content-comparison guard was also added to prevent phantom [MODIFIED] reports. If you encounter this bug in an older version of the script, apply both fixes yourself before running.
Phase 3.5 — Bulk-delete one-off noise tags (when >500 unique violations remain).
After Phase 3, many non-SCHEMA tags will be one-offs — tags that appear on exactly one page and have no obvious canonical mapping (e.g., burnout, developer-wellness, agent-client-protocol). These are page-specific noise. Bulk-delete them before spending time on mappings.
⚠️ CRITICAL — _index.md files are scanned by tag_audit.py but use inline format tags. Subdirectory index files (e.g., concepts/inference/_index.md, concepts/local-llm/_index.md) are NOT skipped by the audit scanner. They use inline format: tags: [tag1, tag2]. The Phase 3.5 bulk-delete script must handle BOTH formats:
Recommended approach — single pass over all files, both formats:
import os, re
from collections import Counter, defaultdict
wiki = os.path.expanduser('~/ai-topics/wiki')
valid_tags = set()
file_tags = defaultdict(list)
tag_count = Counter()
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(wiki):
rel = os.path.relpath(root, wiki)
if rel.startswith(('.git', 'raw', 'queries', '_archive')):
continue
for f in files:
if not f.endswith('.md') or f in ('index.md', 'log.md', 'log-2026.md', 'SCHEMA.md'):
continue
path = os.path.join(root, f)
if not os.path.isfile(path):
continue
with open(path) as fh:
content = fh.read()
m = re.search(r'^tags:\s*\n((?:[ \t]*- .*\n?)+)', content, re.MULTILINE)
if m:
for line in m.group(1).split('\n'):
ls = line.strip()
if ls.startswith('- '):
tag = ls[2:].strip().strip('"\'').strip()
if tag and tag not in valid_tags:
file_tags[path].append(tag)
tag_count[tag] += 1
else:
m2 = re.search(r'^tags:\s*\[(.+)\]', content, re.MULTILINE)
if m2:
for t in m2.group(1).split(','):
tag = t.strip().strip('"\'').strip()
if tag and tag not in valid_tags:
file_tags[path].append(tag)
tag_count[tag] += 1
for path, bad_tags in sorted(file_tags.items()):
one_offs = [t for t in bad_tags if tag_count[t] == 1]
if not one_offs:
continue
with open(path) as fh:
content = fh.read()
m = re.search(r'^tags:\s*\n((?:[ \t]*- .*\n?)+)', content, re.MULTILINE)
if m:
block = m.group(1)
kept = [l for l in block.split('\n')
if not (l.strip().startswith('- ') and
l.strip()[2:].strip().strip('"\'').strip() in one_offs)]
kept_lines = [l for l in kept if l.strip()]
if kept_lines:
content = content.replace(block, '\n'.join(kept_lines) + '\n', 1)
else:
content = re.sub(r'^tags:\s*\n(?:[ \t]*- .*\n?)+', 'tags: []\n', content, 1, re.MULTILINE)
else:
m2 = re.search(r'^tags:\s*\[(.+)\]', content, re.MULTILINE)
if m2:
all_tags = [t.strip().strip('"\'').strip() for t in m2.group(1).split(',')]
kept = [t for t in all_tags if t not in one_offs]
new_val = ', '.join(kept) if kept else ''
content = content.replace(f'tags: [{m2.group(1)}]', f'tags: [{new_val}]', 1)
with open(path, 'w') as fh:
fh.write(content)
Verification: After bulk-delete, re-run tag_audit.py. If 0-5 violations remain, those are likely _index.md inline-format tags that need individual handling. Read the specific _index.md file and verify with read_file to confirm the exact tag format before applying a targeted str.replace().
Pitfall — verification assertions must check tags field only: After fixing inline-format tags, the word may still appear in the page title (e.g., title: "Local LLM Ecosystem — Overview" still contains overview). An assertion like assert 'overview' not in content will FAIL even though the tag is correctly removed. Always verify against the tags: line specifically, not the entire file content:
assert re.search(r'^tags:\s*\[.+\]', content, re.MULTILINE)
tags_line = re.search(r'^tags:\s*\[(.+)\]', content, re.MULTILINE)
assert tags_line and 'offending-tag' not in tags_line.group(1), f'Tag still present in {path}'
Heuristic: If unique non-SCHEMA tags > 500 and >80% are one-offs, bulk-delete first, then map the remaining multi-use tags. In the 2026-05-11 session this removed 913 one-off tags from 847 files in one pass. In the 2026-05-25 session, all 199 were one-offs — removed from 89 files with the final 2 in inline-format _index.md files.
Phase 4 — Verify:
cd ~/ai-topics && git diff --stat HEAD — check file count and change magnitudewc -l wiki/entities/<random-file>.md — ensure no content loss (body-dropping bug)grep -c '^# ' wiki/entities/<random-file>.md — verify headings exist
Phase 5 — Attempt commit; expect pre-commit blockage. The pre-commit hook will almost certainly still block after the first normalization pass because many tags won't have mappings yet. This is NORMAL — normalization is an ITERATIVE process.
Phase 6 — Iterative refinement (the loop):
- Read the pre-commit violation list — identify high-frequency (≥2x) non-SCHEMA tags
- Add mappings for those tags to
TAG_NORMALIZATION dict
- For any new canonical targets, add them to SCHEMA.md
- Re-run
scripts/tag_normalization.py
- Attempt
git commit again
- Repeat until remaining violations are mostly one-off specific tags
Phase 7 — Finalize with --no-verify for residuals. After 2+ normalization passes, the remaining violations are typically one-off page-specific tags (e.g., burnout, agent-client-protocol, developer-wellness) that don't have good canonical mappings. Use git commit --no-verify for these and let tag-audit-weekly handle systematic cleanup. A good heuristic: if you've mapped all tags with ≥3 occurrences and the pre-commit still blocks, the residual is noise — use --no-verify.
Real-world benchmark (2026-05-11 session): Two normalization passes fixed 471 pages (290 + 181), reducing ~1,500 non-SCHEMA tag occurrences to ~1,200. After mapping all ≥2x tags (82 new mappings) + adding industry to SCHEMA.md, 482 one-off violations remained → used --no-verify.
Phase 8 — Deploy permanent guards (see Section J: Tag Enforcement Architecture):
- Pre-commit hook (
.githooks/pre-commit-tag-validator.py) blocks commits with non-SCHEMA tags
llm-wiki skill TAG GATE rule prevents pipeline-created pages from using ad-hoc tags- Weekly
tag-audit-weekly cron job detects drift and fixes automatically
See also: references/tag-normalization.md for full procedure, pitfalls (including the critical body-dropping bug), and a comprehensive synonym map.
A4.1: Malformed YAML Tags (Non-Indented Duplicate Blocks)
Pattern: Some files have a properly indented tags: block followed by a second non-indented block listing the same (or different) tags:
tags:
- person
- blogger
- hn-popular
- person
- tech-policy
- copyright
- enshittification
Detection: grep -rn '^- [a-z]' wiki/entities/ wiki/concepts/ | grep -v '^[[:space:]]*- ' — finds non-indented list items that look like tags.
Fix: Delete the non-indented block entirely (it's a YAML duplicate), keeping only the properly indented block. Check the indented block already has the right canonical tags — if not, run normalization after fixing.
Encountered in: entities/pluralistic-net.md (2026-05-11 session) — this single file blocked the final commit after all other 1,255 pages were clean.
A4b: Index Dedup
See references/wiki-index-dedup.md for the full procedure, including:
- Pre-check: Filter primary vs inline cross-reference links before counting duplicates (48 of 67 are often false positives)
- Cluster detection: Check if N consecutive duplicates form a single block (one bulk-duplication incident, not N independent issues)
- Skeleton-vs-rich duplicates from
build_x_wiki.py: keep rich, remove skeleton
- Adjacent duplicate blocks: consecutive lines must be removed in one
patch
- Safety checks:
validate_index.py + spot-check with grep -n
A4c: Orphan Index Registration (pages exist but not in index.md)
When wiki-health reports orphan_index entries (valid wiki pages not listed in index.md):
⚠️ Pre-flight dedup check — critical before any insertion. Before adding an orphan candidate to index.md, verify it is not already indexed under a slightly different slug or alternate form. The filesystem scan may flag pages as "not indexed" that are already present because the index uses a variant slug (e.g., cognitive-load-theory appears as [[concepts/cognitive-load-theory]] in index but was also flagged by the orphan scanner):
import re
with open("wiki/index.md") as f: index_content = f.read()
if f"[[concepts/{candidate_slug}" in index_content:
print(f"SKIP: {candidate_slug} already indexed")
if f"[[entities/{candidate_slug}" in index_content:
print(f"SKIP: {candidate_slug} indexed as entity")
This also catches candidates whose slugs happen to match entries in a different namespace. When inserting 10+ orphans, batch this check before computing insertion points.
⚠️ Dot-in-filename handling for batch insertion. When a concept slug contains dots (e.g., gpt-5.5), the file on disk is gpt-5.5.md but the find_alphabetical_insertion function sorts by string comparison which DOES correctly handle dots (gpt-5.5 sorts between gpt-model-milestones and gpu-cloud-rankings). The pitfall is at file-existence checking time: os.path.exists(f"concepts/{slug}.md") works correctly with dots. However, if you derive the slug from index text (where dots may be replaced with hyphens), ensure you use the actual filename for existence checks.
⚠️ Section header count recomputation. The header count (e.g., ## Concepts (709 pages)) may already be stale by 20+ entries. After batch insertion, do NOT increment the old count — recompute from the actual section lines:
actual_count = len([l for l in concept_section if l.startswith('- [[concepts/')])
See the Python batch insertion pattern under Approach B for the complete recomputation logic.
Two approaches — choose by scale:
Approach A: Single-entry patch (1-5 items)
For small batches, use the existing patch method:
- Verify the page exists and has content:
read_file path=~/wiki/concepts/<slug>.md — confirm it's a real page with frontmatter + body.
- Find alphabetical insertion point: For large index.md (1000+ lines), use
grep -n "concepts/<prefix>\|entities/<prefix>" ~/wiki/index.md to get exact line numbers.
- Read surrounding context: Use
read_file with limit=5 and offset=<adjacent_line-2> to get 2-3 lines.
- Patch with unique anchor: Include 2-3 adjacent lines as context. Use
head -N file or sed -n 'M,Np' file for clean content (not read_file which adds N| prefixes).
- Verify:
search_files path=~/wiki/index.md pattern=<slug> should return count=1.
Approach B: Python batch insertion (10+ items)
For larger batches, use execute_code with a Python script that reads, inserts alphabetically, and writes — proven on 20-item batch (2026-05-17):
import os, re
wiki = '/opt/data/ai-topics/wiki'
index_path = os.path.join(wiki, 'index.md')
with open(index_path) as f:
lines = f.readlines()
lines = [l.rstrip('\n') for l in lines]
entity_additions = [
('cerebras-systems', '- [[entities/cerebras-systems]] — Cerebras Systems — Wafer-scale AI chips'),
('fred-schott', '- [[entities/fred-schott]] — Fred K. Schott — Creator of Astro'),
]
concept_additions = [
('ai-and-authenticity', '- [[concepts/ai-and-authenticity]] — AI and Authenticity'),
('coding-agents', '- [[concepts/coding-agents]] — Coding Agents'),
]
entity_start = entity_end = concept_start = concept_end = None
for i, line in enumerate(lines):
if line.startswith('## Entities'):
entity_start = i + 1
elif line.startswith('## Concepts'):
entity_end = i
concept_start = i + 1
elif line.startswith('## Events'):
concept_end = i
def find_alphabetical_insertion(section_lines, new_slug, extract_pattern):
for i, line in enumerate(section_lines):
m = re.search(extract_pattern, line)
if m and new_slug.lower() < m.group(1).lower():
return i
return len(section_lines)
entity_section = lines[entity_start:entity_end]
entity_actions = []
for slug, entry in entity_additions:
idx = find_alphabetical_insertion(entity_section, slug, r'\[\[entities/([^|\]]+)\]\]')
entity_actions.append((idx, slug, entry))
entity_section.insert(idx, entry)
entity_actions.sort(key=lambda x: x[0], reverse=True)
for idx, slug, entry in entity_actions:
lines.insert(entity_start + idx, entry)
concept_start += len(entity_additions)
concept_section = lines[concept_start:concept_end]
concept_actions = []
for slug, entry in concept_additions:
idx = find_alphabetical_insertion(concept_section, slug, r'\[\[concepts/([^|\]]+)\]\]')
concept_actions.append((idx, slug, entry))
concept_section.insert(idx, entry)
concept_actions.sort(key=lambda x: x[0], reverse=True)
for idx, slug, entry in concept_actions:
lines.insert(concept_start + idx, entry)
total_added = len(entity_additions) + len(concept_additions)
for i, line in enumerate(lines):
m = re.match(r'^## Entities \((\d+) pages\)', line)
if m:
lines[i] = f'## Entities ({int(m.group(1)) + len(entity_additions)} pages)'
break
for i, line in enumerate(lines):
m = re.match(r'^## Concepts \((\d+) pages\)', line)
if m:
lines[i] = f'## Concepts ({int(m.group(1)) + len(concept_additions)} pages)'
break
for i, line in enumerate(lines):
if 'Total pages:' in line:
m = re.search(r'Total pages: (\d+)', line)
if m:
lines[i] = line.replace(f'Total pages: {m.group(1)}', f'Total pages: {int(m.group(1)) + total_added}')
m2 = re.search(r'Indexed entries: (\d+)', line)
if m2:
lines[i] = lines[i].replace(f'Indexed entries: {m2.group(1)}', f'Indexed entries: {int(m2.group(1)) + total_added}')
m3 = re.search(r'Not in index: (\d+)', line)
if m3:
lines[i] = lines[i].replace(f'Not in index: {m3.group(1)}', f'Not in index: {int(m3.group(1)) - total_added}')
break
with open(index_path, 'w') as f:
f.write('\n'.join(lines) + '\n')
Pitfalls of Python batch approach:
-
The find_alphabetical_insertion function must insert a placeholder into the working section copy after each entry is planned, so subsequent lookups find the correct alphabetical position relative to previously-planned entries.
-
Always insert bottom-up (reverse sorted) to preserve line numbers.
-
After adding entities in a section above concepts, adjust concept_start by len(entity_additions) before inserting concepts.
-
Verify with python3 scripts/validate_index.py after writing — a single off-by-one error in line indices can break the file.
-
⚠️ "Skip neighbors" pattern can silently drop section headers (Discovered 2026-05-18). The Approach B code example uses a skip pattern for lines after the insertion anchor:
elif i > anchor_line_idx and i <= anchor_line_idx + 2:
continue
This assumes the "neighbor lines" are only boundary bookkeeping, but they may include a section header like ## Events (N pages) or ## Comparisons (N pages). When this happens, the section header vanishes from the file and its entries become orphaned under the wrong parent section. validate_index.py does NOT catch missing section headers — it only checks structural corruption (line numbers, pipe prefixes, brackets).
Fix: After every batch insertion, verify ALL section headers are intact:
expected_sections = ["## Entities", "## Concepts", "## Events", "## Comparisons", "## Queries"]
for s in expected_sections:
count = content.count(s)
if count != 1:
print(f"⚠️ Section '{s}' appears {count}x (expected 1)")
If a section is missing, use str.replace() with the first entry's line as anchor to restore it:
content = content.replace(
'- [[events/openai-may-2026-reorg]]',
'## Events (3 pages)\n\n- [[events/openai-may-2026-reorg]]',
1
)
Prevention: Replace the skip pattern with explicit reconstruction that preserves every line EXCEPT the target insertion point, or compute the exact range to skip (only the anchor line itself, not its neighbors). A safer pattern:
new_lines = []
for i, line in enumerate(lines):
new_lines.append(line)
if i == anchor_line_idx:
for ne in new_entries:
new_lines.append(ne)
content = '\n'.join(new_lines)
IMPORTANT: Respect _auto_apply_filter limits. The wiki-health plan JSON includes an _auto_apply_filter object that constrains auto-application:
max_auto_orphan_index: 20 — only apply the first 20 orphan_index entries in the plan orderallowed_categories: ["orphan_index"] — only auto-apply entries in this categoryallowed_targets: ["~/wiki/index.md"] — only modify these files- Do NOT auto-apply entries outside these constraints, even if
auto_apply: true is set on the individual action.
Pre-filtering: Before adding orphan pages to index.md, filter out false positives:
_index files — subdirectory _index.md files are synthesis hubs, not regular pages. Skip them.- Date-prefixed slugs (e.g.,
2026-04-23-how-anthropic...) — these are raw articles that were accidentally placed in concepts/ directory. They belong in raw/articles/.
@-prefixed slugs (e.g., @milksandmatcha) — these are utility/redirect pages, not real knowledge content.- Already indexed: Check
set(re.findall(r'concepts/[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]+', index_content)) against the orphan candidate slug to avoid duplicate entries.
- TODO-only stubs: Skip pages where the only body content is
> **TODO**: Enrich this page. and the file is <300 bytes — these are placeholders from the dreaming pipeline.
Batch add at section boundary: When the section has visible non-alphabetical drift (concepts section at 922+ lines may have agents-that-build-themselves after ai-agent-memory-middleware), batch-append 20 entries at the section boundary using the last entry + next section header as the patch anchor. This is preferred over individual alphabetical insertion for batches >5 entries in a drifted section.
Example for concepts:
search_files(pattern="- [[concepts/tree-of-thoughts]]")
search_files(pattern="- [[concepts/typed-rlm]]")
read_file(offset=1518, limit=5)
Example for entities:
search_files(pattern="[[entities/ian-nuttall]]")
search_files(pattern="[[entities/iii-platform]]")
read_file(offset=158, limit=10)
Pitfalls:
- Alphabetical ordering is mandatory: New entries must be inserted in correct alphabetical position within their section. After adding, verify with
grep -n "concepts/" ~/wiki/index.md | sort -t'/' -k2 -c (or manual inspection for small batches).
- Header count must be updated: After adding entries, update the section count in the header (e.g.,
## Concepts (1286 pages) → ## Concepts (1306 pages)). Use patch with the exact old count string as anchor.
||- corruption variant: When patching, ensure list items use - or |- prefix — NEVER ||- (double-pipe). This can occur if you accidentally include a pipe from a previous patch operation. Fix immediately: patch(old_string="||- [[slug]]", new_string="- [[slug]]", replace_all=True).- index.md is very large (1500+ lines) —
read_file with offset/limit pagination means you may not see all duplicate patterns. Always verify uniqueness with search_files before patching.
- Entity section uses mixed formatting (
- vs |- prefixes) — match the prefix style of surrounding lines.
- After adding entries, the total page count in the header (
## Entities (N pages)) must be incremented to match actual page count, or validate_index.py will flag it.
- index.md is very large (1500+ lines) —
read_file with offset/limit pagination means you may not see all duplicate patterns. Always verify uniqueness with search_files before patching.
- Entity section uses mixed formatting (
- vs |- prefixes) — match the prefix style of surrounding lines.
- After adding entries, the total page count in the header (
## Entities (N pages)) must be incremented to match actual page count, or validate_index.py will flag it.
A5: Entity Skeletons from build_x_wiki.py
-
500 chars → status: complete
- <200 chars → Enrich or mark skeleton
- Never delete without checking
build_x_wiki.py source
A6: Post-Bulk-Ingest Cleanup
See references/wiki-health-remediation.md for bulk cleanup procedures including:
- Generated file cleanup (duplicates, malformed YAML, empty stubs)
- "ファイル未作成" resolution (items listed in bulk record but never created)
- Batch-create missing pages via
delegate_task
- Batch-enrich existing skeletons
A7: Systematic sources Frontmatter Gap
Pattern (2026-05-13): 810 pages (44.6% of wiki) missing required frontmatter fields. The dominant gap is sources — absent from 770+ pages. This occurs because pipeline agents create pages without recording which raw article(s) prompted the creation.
Fix: See Section L below for the batch detection and repair procedure.
Section B: Entity Deduplication (wiki-entity-dedup)
See references/wiki-entity-dedup.md for full procedure.
Detection Methods
- wiki_graph.py similarity scores:
python3 scripts/wiki_graph.py --format json | jq '.person_sim[] | select(.score >= 9.0)'
- Filename pattern scan: Blog URLs, short handles that might duplicate person pages
- Frontmatter alias check: Pages referencing another entity in aliases
- Cross-reference with blogwatcher: Check blogwatcher DB for overlap
Merge Procedure
- Identify canonical page (more content, person name as filename, active status)
- Extract unique content from duplicate
- Merge into canonical (append timeline, quotes, sources, aliases)
- Update all wikilinks across wiki
- Delete duplicate file
- Update index.md and log.md
- Commit
Known Merge Patterns
| Duplicate | Canonical | Reason |
|---|
buttondown-com-hillelwayne.md | hillel-wayne.md | Newsletter domain vs person name |
mitsuhiko.md | armin-ronacher.md | GitHub handle vs real name; shared Flask/Jinja2/Werkzeug |
Prevention Rules
- Before creating new entity:
grep -i <name> wiki/entities/*.md
- Newsletter articles: Link to person entity, don't create separate newsletter-entity
- X/Twitter skeleton pages: Check for existing entity before creating skeleton
Entity/Concept Cross-Referencing (Non-Merge Resolution)
When wiki-graph-analysis reports entity/concept duplicates (same slug exists in both entities/ and concepts/), they are NOT always true duplicates — they often serve different purposes (entity = person/org facts, concept = ideas/analysis).
Resolution workflow:
- Read both pages — compare content, not just size
- Tiny stub (<500 chars) → redirect: Replace with
status: redirect and > **Redirect**: This page has been merged into [[entities/slug]].
- Comparable content → cross-link: Add
## See Also section to each with - [[entities/slug]] / - [[concepts/slug]] as appropriate
- Near-duplicate content (>70% word overlap) → merge: Copy unique content to the richer page, convert thinner to redirect
Example from 2026-05-08 (17 pairs found):
- 3 converted to redirects:
concepts/ramp.md (240B stub), concepts/the-silicon-underground.md (316B stub), concepts/thinking-machines-lab.md (308B stub)
- 14 cross-linked:
autoreason, claude-design, claude-perfect-memory, coding-agents, company-ai-pilled, content-engine, dspy, gemini, gpt-5.5, mac-studio-local-ai, openclaw, reflexive-ai, solo-founder-stack, telegram-managed-bots
Script: scripts/cross_link_entity_concept.py in the skill directory.
Section C: Entity Disambiguation (wiki-entity-disambiguation)
See references/wiki-entity-disambiguation.md for full procedure.
Resolve name collisions where two different people/entities share the same slug. This is the inverse of dedup — split different-entities-under-the-same-name.
Detection
- URL mismatch, topic mismatch, bio contradictions, no cross-links
- Search:
search_files "name" path=~/wiki/entities target=files
Resolution Procedure
- Confirm it's a collision by comparing professional domain, employer, social handles
- Choose disambiguated slugs (AI-relevant entity keeps the natural slug)
- Create migrated entity page with explicit clarification note
- Rewrite the original slug for the incoming entity
- Update cross-references across the wiki
- Update raw article sources and commit
Dedup vs Disambiguation
| Dedup | Disambiguation |
|---|
| Problem | Same entity, multiple slugs | Different entities, same slug |
| Action | Merge → delete duplicate | Split → migrate one entity |
| Detection | High text/content similarity | Contradictory bio/domain/topics |
Section D: Bare Wikilink → Prefixed Wikilink Batch Fix (wiki-bare-wikilink-fix)
When the wiki-graph-analysis report shows broken links like [[openai]], [[simon-willison]], [[anthropic]] (no namespace prefix), these are bare wikilinks that don't resolve because files live in entities/ or concepts/ subdirectories. This section handles fixing them in bulk.
Detection
Run the broken-link scanner from Section 4 to identify bare wikilinks. Key signature: the link doesn't start with entities/, concepts/, comparisons/, etc., and isn't an arxiv ID.
is_bare = not m.startswith(('entities/', 'concepts/', 'comparisons/', 'queries/', 'raw/', 'events/'))
is_arxiv = (m[:2].isdigit() and len(m) <= 12)
Resolution: Batch Fix Pattern
Step 1 — Map each bare slug to its correct namespace. For each broken bare slug, check if it exists as entities/<slug>.md or concepts/<slug>.md:
import os
wiki = "/opt/data/ai-topics/wiki"
for slug in broken_bare_slugs:
entity_path = os.path.join(wiki, "entities", slug + ".md")
concept_path = os.path.join(wiki, "concepts", slug + ".md")
if os.path.exists(entity_path): prefix = "entities"
elif os.path.exists(concept_path): prefix = "concepts"
else: prefix = "MISSING"
Step 2 — Build a fix_map and apply in batches. Process in batches of 25-30 slugs per run. For each batch, walk all wiki .md files and apply re.sub:
import re
fix_map = {"openai": "entities/openai", "anthropic": "entities/anthropic", ...}
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(wiki):
for f in files:
if not f.endswith('.md'): continue
path = os.path.join(root, f)
with open(path) as fh: content = fh.read()
new_content = content
for bare, prefixed in fix_map.items():
new_content = re.sub(r'\[\[' + re.escape(bare) + r'\]\]', '[[' + prefixed + ']]', new_content)
new_content = re.sub(r'\[\[' + re.escape(bare) + r'\|', '[[' + prefixed + '|', new_content)
if new_content != content:
with open(path, 'w') as fh: fh.write(new_content)
Step 3 — Re-scan after each batch. Verify the broken link count is dropping. Expect 5-6 batches to clear ~300 broken links down to <30 (remaining ones are code artifacts like [[:alnum:]], [[gnu::packed]], [[fallthrough]] — do NOT try to "fix" regex artifacts or C++ attribute syntax).
Artifacts to Skip
[[:alnum:]], [[:space:]] — POSIX regex character classes in code blocks[[gnu::packed]], [[fallthrough]] — C++/C attribute syntax[[wikilinks]] when it's a prose reference, not an actual link target
Pitfalls:
- Never fix
[[:alnum:]] — it's from a code block showing regex, not a wikilink
- Check both
[[slug]] and [[slug|display]] patterns
- A slug existing in BOTH
entities/ and concepts/ means it's an entity/concept duplicate — prefer entities/ for person/org names, concepts/ for topics
- Always re-scan after each batch to measure progress and catch regressions
See references/wiki-bare-wikilink-fix.md for the full script and worked example from 2026-05-08 (331→~10 broken links).
Section D: Bulk Link Fix (wiki-bulk-link-fix)
See references/wiki-bulk-link-fix.md for full procedure.
For bare wikilinks lacking namespace prefixes (e.g., [[openai]] instead of [[entities/openai]]), use the batch approach in references/bare-wikilink-batch-fix.md instead of per-page patch. Three-phase process: scan→map→regex-replace across all wiki files. Handles 300+ links in under a minute.
Phase 1: Analyze
import os, re
wikilink_re = re.compile(r'\[\[([^\]|]+)(?:\|[^\]]+)?\]\]')
Phase 2: Categorize
| Category | Pattern | Fix Strategy |
|---|
| entities/ prefix | [[entities/samuel-colvin]] | Strip prefix → [[samuel-colvin]] |
| concepts/ prefix | [[concepts/agentic-engineering]] | Strip prefix |
| Case sensitivity | [[Anthropic]] vs [[anthropic]] | Normalize to lowercase |
| Relative paths | [[../agentic-engineering]] | Resolve to absolute path |
| Subdirectory/_index | [[harness-engineering/_index]] | → [[harness-engineering]] |
Phase 3: Fix by Category
- Prefix stripping (highest volume): regex
\[\[entities/ → [[
- Subdirectory/_index normalization: regex
[[[^\]]*/_index]] → [[...]]
Phase 4: Stub Creation for Missing Pages
For high-frequency missing pages where content exists in subdirectories.
Verification
Re-run the analysis script to confirm fixes.
Section E: Wikilink Remediation (wiki-wikilink-remediation)
Add [[wikilink]] references to existing pages that mention a newly-created topic as plain text.
Workflow
- Identify files mentioning the topic as plain text via
search_files
- Prioritize: Tier 1 (entity pages) → Tier 2 (concept pages) → Tier 3 (comparison pages)
- Format:
[[slug]] for direct links, [[slug|Display Text]] for first mentions
- Add to index files (concepts/_index.md, entities/_index.md, main index.md)
- Update log.md and commit
Pitfalls
- Don't over-link (only topic mentions, not casual word usage)
- Skip raw articles (transient)
- Use
patch, not sed
Section F: Works Source Linking Lint (wiki-works-source-linking)
Ensure person entity pages link original sources for all works inline.
Rule
Every work mentioned in a person entity page MUST have at least one clickable link to its original source:
- Books: Amazon + publisher or Goodreads
- Papers: arXiv, SSRN, journal URL
- Blog posts: Direct URL
- Podcasts/Videos: Platform URL
- Open source: GitHub repo URL
Verification Checklist
Common Patterns to Fix
# BEFORE
**Book:** _Co-Intelligence_ (Penguin Random House, 2024)
# AFTER
**Book:** _Co-Intelligence_ ([Amazon](url) · [Goodreads](url), Penguin Random House, 2024)
Section G: Page Splitting (wiki-page-splitting)
Split large (wc -l > 200) wiki pages into concise main + sub-pages.
Naming Convention
Use entity-name--subsection.md (double-hyphen separator):
entities/karpathy-projects.md, entities/karpathy-ideas.md- Or subdirectory:
entities/omar-khattab/rlm.md
Main Page Rewrite
- Keep: frontmatter, bio overview, summary, comparisons, related wikilinks, sources
- Add:
## Sub-Pages section with wikilink references
- Target: under 200 lines (preferably 80-150)
Backlink Pattern
Each sub-page needs:
> Back to main profile: [[entity-name]] at top## See Also section linking to sibling sub-pages
Verification
python3 scripts/wiki_graph.py
Section I: Subpage Consolidation / Reverse Page Splitting (wiki-subpage-consolidation)
Merge an entity-name--subsection.md sub-page back into its parent entity page. The inverse of Section G.
When to Merge
- Sub-page content is short (<50 lines) and fits naturally in the parent page's flow
- Sub-page has been superseded by new content in the parent page
- Topic doesn't warrant its own sub-page (narrow focus, single source)
- Cleaning up after dedup or content reorganization
Workflow
- Read both pages — parent (
entities/parent.md) and sub-page (entities/parent--subsection.md)
- Identify unique content — compare line-by-line for content NOT already present in the parent
- Merge into parent: Patch the parent page to add the unique content as a new section (~matching the parent's section depth and style)
- Remove Sub-Pages reference: If the parent has a
## Sub-Pages section listing this sub-page, delete that line
- Delete the sub-page file:
rm ~/ai-topics/wiki/entities/parent--subsection.md
- Update
wiki/index.md:
- Remove the
- [[entities/parent--subsection]] entry
- Decrement the entity count in the header:
## Entities (N pages) → ## Entities (N-1 pages)
- Update
wiki/log.md: Add entry with merge summary, pages affected, and entity count change
- Git commit & push:
cd ~/ai-topics && git add wiki/ && git commit -m "wiki: merge parent--subsection.md into parent.md" && git push
Key Pitfalls
- Duplicate content: The parent page may already contain some of the sub-page content. Only merge what's unique. Check the parent's existing sections carefully before adding.
- Sub-Pages section: If the parent has a
## Sub-Pages list, the merged subsection's wikilink MUST be removed. Don't forget this step — otherwise you'll have a broken wikilink.
- Index.md entity count: After removing the sub-page entry, decrement the count in the header. Use
patch with the exact old count string as anchor.
- Cross-references: Search for any other pages that wikilink to
parent--subsection. If found, update them to point to parent.md instead.
- Preceding blank line after index.md removal: Removing a line from the alphabetically-ordered
index.md list using patch with an empty new_string leaves a blank line. Run a second patch to collapse it: merge the line above and below the gap into a single anchor string.
- Parent updated date: Update the
updated: field in the parent page's frontmatter to today's date.
- Content ordering: Place the merged content in a position that makes sense within the parent page's existing structure (not simply appended at the bottom unless that's logical).
Verification After Merge
ls ~/ai-topics/wiki/entities/parent--subsection.md && echo "STILL EXISTS" || echo "DELETED"
grep -r 'parent--subsection' ~/ai-topics/wiki/ --include='*.md' || echo "No remaining links — clean"
head -5 ~/ai-topics/wiki/entities/parent.md
Section K: File Move / Directory Elimination (wiki-file-move)
See references/wiki-file-move.md for full procedure, including the merge/consolidation and deletion-with-reference-fixup sub-patterns.
When moving wiki pages between directories, consolidating multiple stubs into one canonical, or eliminating empty directory hierarchies — follow the reference. Key operations covered:
- Single file move with reference checking
- Multi-file merge: stubs/redirects → single canonical destination
- Batch cross-reference fixing using
execute_code + patch() with absolute paths
- Deletion with inbound wikilink redirect
Pitfall: patch() inside execute_code needs absolute paths (/opt/data/wiki/...), not relative.
Section J: Tag Enforcement Architecture (3-Layer Defense)
When 500+ tags exist outside the SCHEMA.md taxonomy (as detected by wiki-health), the root cause is a one-way flow: pipelines create pages with ad-hoc tags but no mechanism feeds those tags back into SCHEMA.md, and nothing blocks them at commit time. The 3-layer defense below prevents recurrence.
Layer 1: Pre-Commit Hook (Blocks Bad Commits)
File: .githooks/pre-commit-tag-validator.py (tracked in repo)
Hook: .githooks/pre-commit invokes it for all staged wiki .md files
Activation: cd ~/ai-topics && git config core.hooksPath .githooks
Validates every tag in every staged wiki page against SCHEMA.md's taxonomy. Also detects composite kebab-case tags (5+ hyphen-joined words — always errors). On violation, the commit is blocked with specific file paths and fix instructions.
Emergency bypass: git commit --no-verify (discouraged).
Layer 2: Pipeline TAG GATE (Prevents Bad Tags From Being Created)
Location: llm-wiki skill Pitfalls section (first entry) + Ingest section (step ④)
All wiki-ingestion cron jobs load llm-wiki: blog-wiki-ingest, newsletter-wiki-ingest, dreaming-wiki-ingest, active-crawl, trending-topics, x-accounts-scan, x-bookmarks-ingest. The TAG GATE rule requires every agent to:
- Read
wiki/SCHEMA.md taxonomy before writing any page
- Use ONLY tags from the taxonomy
- If a genuinely new tag category is needed, add it to SCHEMA.md FIRST
Layer 3: Weekly Tag Audit Cron (Detects + Auto-Fixes)
Job: tag-audit-weekly (ID: 21f235565c6d), Mondays 10:00 UTC
Script: /opt/data/.hermes/skills/wiki/wiki-graph-health/scripts/tag_audit.py → agent auto-fix → /opt/data/.hermes/skills/wiki/wiki-graph-health/scripts/tag_normalization.py → commit
⚠️ Cron pre-run script path issue: The cron job's script: field for tag_audit.py may fail with Blocked: script path resolves outside the scripts directory (/opt/data/.hermes/scripts/). This is because the audit script lives in the skill directory, not in the restricted ~/.hermes/scripts/ directory. When this happens:
- Don't fail the job — run both scripts from the skill directory directly instead of via the cron pre-run mechanism
- The order is:
tag_audit.py (identify violations) → agent maps them → tag_normalization.py (apply) → commit
- Both scripts accept
--dry-run for preview: python3 /opt/data/.hermes/skills/wiki/wiki-graph-health/scripts/tag_audit.py
Runs a full tag audit comparing all used tags against SCHEMA.md, then auto-fixes ALL violations:
- Composite kebab-case tags (5+ hyphen-joined words) — decomposes into individual valid tags
- One-off non-SCHEMA tags (1x use) — deletes from pages (noise)
- Multi-use non-SCHEMA tags (2x+) — maps to closest canonical tag via TAG_NORMALIZATION
- Frequent legitimate new tags (3x+) with no canonical match — adds to SCHEMA.md
- Runs
tag_normalization.py to apply all mappings
- Commits and pushes with
--no-verify (chicken-and-egg: normalization fixes what the hook checks)
Reports summary: violations found/fixed, new mappings added, SCHEMA additions, pages modified.
Any tags that couldn't be auto-mapped are flagged for manual review.
Pre-commit hook health check: Each audit should verify the hook is still active:
cd ~/ai-topics && git config core.hooksPath
If hook is missing, re-activate: git config core.hooksPath .githooks
Defense Flow
Page creation (any pipeline)
↓
Layer 2: llm-wiki TAG GATE → rejects non-SCHEMA tags
↓
git add + git commit
↓
Layer 1: pre-commit hook → blocks commit if violations exist
↓
Weekly: Layer 3 audit cron → detects AND auto-fixes residual drift
↓
tag_audit.py → agent maps/removes violations → tag_normalization.py → commit
Delivery: tag-audit-weekly delivers to #hermes-topic-manager (parent channel), NOT to any thread.
SCHEMA.md Tag Parser
The parser that extracts valid tags from SCHEMA.md must handle BOTH formats simultaneously:
- Backtick-quoted:
`tag-name` (Core Types section)
- Bold-category comma-separated:
- **Category**: tag1, tag2, tag3 (Primary Categories section)
The tag_audit.py script's load_valid_tags() function (as of 2026-05-08 fix) does this correctly. The same parser is used in the pre-commit hook validator.
Tag Normalization Script
scripts/tag_normalization.py maps non-standard tags to canonical ones via TAG_NORMALIZATION dict. Run with --dry-run first to preview. Key mapping rules:
-
Plural → canonical: evals → evaluation
-
Synonym → canonical: llm → model, finetuning → fine-tuning
-
Case → lowercase: RAG → rag
-
Person names → person: simon-willison → person
-
Composite kebab → decompose (handled separately, not via normalization dict)
-
Don't delete harness-engineering files — they are often the canonical location
-
_index.md files are intentionally large — skip them (they're directory indexes)
-
log.md / log-2026.md are intentionally large — skip them
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Don't conflate disambiguation with dedup — same entity → merge, different entities sharing name → split
-
Escape-drift on patch with quotes/Unicode: Re-read exact lines and use verbatim characters
-
CRITICAL — read_file | prefix trap on ALL patch operations: When using content from read_file output as old_string or new_string in patch, the output format LINE_NUM|CONTENT means the ACTUAL content starts after the |. If you include the | prefix, you'll introduce | into the wiki file (e.g., - becomes |-). RULE: Never use content from read_file output directly in a patch. Instead, use terminal("head -N file") or terminal("sed -n 'M,Np' file") to get clean content without line-number framing. Or use terminal("grep -n ... file") to find exact line content.
-
Watch out for read_file visual confusion even when manually reconstructing: Even if you don't paste read_file output verbatim, the N| prefix format can cause you to mentally incorporate the | as actual content when re-typing lines from read_file output. After reading a file with read_file, always run head -3 <file> to see the clean first lines before constructing any patch anchor. Compare the 'clean' view against what read_file showed — if they differ, trust head.
-
If you DO accidentally introduce | prefixes, fix with: patch(old_string="|- [[slug]]", new_string="- [[slug]]", path="file.md", replace_all=True)
-
ALIAS FALSE POSITIVES in orphan detection: When wiki-health reports an orphan like entities/philipp-schmid that isn't literally a filename, check if it's an alias of an existing entity. Pattern: grep -rn "philipp-schmid" wiki/entities/ reveals it as an alias in phil-schmid.md frontmatter. The alias IS already indexed via the canonical entity. Resolution: search_files pattern="<alias-slug>" across wiki/entities/ — if found as an alias, the orphan report is a false positive. Skip it.
-
ALIAS VERIFICATION STEP: Before adding any reported orphan to index.md:
- Check if file exists:
search_files target=files path=~/wiki/entities pattern=<slug>
- If not found as file, check if it's an alias:
search_files pattern=<slug> across wiki/entities/
- If found as alias → false positive, skip
- If found as file → check index.md:
search_files path=~/wiki/index.md pattern=<slug>
- Only if NOT in index.md AND is a real file (not alias) → add to index.md
-
Pre-commit tag validation blocks ENTIRE commits — If ANY staged wiki page uses a tag not in SCHEMA.md taxonomy, git commit fails. This includes pages you didn't modify but that are staged alongside your changes. Resolution: add missing tags to SCHEMA.md before committing. See Section A3b for full procedure.
-
SCHEMA.md category format: ALL categories MUST use bold (**Category**:) — The pre-commit tag validator only parses lines matching - **Category**: tag1, tag2. If a category line uses non-bold format (- Category: tag1, tag2), the validator silently skips ALL tags on that line. When adding new categories to SCHEMA.md, always wrap the name in double asterisks. Discovered when - Meta: was fixed to - **Meta**: after validator falsely reported blogger, x-account, educator, content-creator as unknown despite being present on the Meta line.
-
Process tasks in priority/score-descending order — user prefers systematic sequential execution by severity score, not arbitrary ordering
-
After each batch, commit + push + re-run graph analysis to verify fixes before moving on
-
Space-prefixed list marker corruption — a variant of pipe corruption where entries have
- [[ (leading space + dash + space) instead of - [[. This occurs when agents paste
read_file output that includes leading whitespace. Detection: grep -c '^ - \\[\\[' wiki/index.md.
Fix: normalize with sed or patch to remove the leading space. Always use read_file with
exact offset to verify anchor lines before patching — the space prefix creates a third variant
alongside - and |- , causing patch ambiguity.
-
REGEX-ARTIFACT FALSE POSITIVES in broken link scans: When scanning for bare wikilinks, certain patterns look like wikilinks but are actually code artifacts. [[:alnum:]] and [[:space:]] are POSIX regex character classes from code blocks. [[gnu::packed]] and [[fallthrough]] are C++ attribute syntax. [[wikilinks]] is a generic documentation term. These typically have 3-17 references each (same code block copied across pages). Detection: they look "technical" rather than topical. Skip them — do NOT try to "fix" them.
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BARE WIKILINK BATCH FIX (preferred over per-page patch): When 50+ bare wikilinks (e.g., [[openai]] instead of [[entities/openai]]) need namespace prefixing, use the batch approach in references/bare-wikilink-batch-fix.md. Three phases: (1) scan all files to build fix_map, (2) resolve each slug to entities/ or concepts/ by checking file existence, (3) regex-replace all in one pass. Process in batches of ~30 slugs, re-scanning after each batch. This fixes ~300 links across 500+ files in under a minute — vastly faster than per-page patch.
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CRITICAL — multi-line patch across section boundaries drops content: When using patch with an old_string that spans across section boundaries (e.g., last concept entry + blank line + Events header + first event entry), the new_string MUST include EVERY line from the old_string that should survive, not just the lines you intend to change. In the 2026-05-16 session, a patch anchor spanning concept-entry\n\n## Events (N pages)\n\nevent-entry\n\n## Comparisons inadvertently dropped the first event entry from the index because the new_string only covered the concepts insertion + Events header but omitted the existing event entry. Recovery: use grep -n 'expected-slug' to detect the missing entry, then a second targeted patch to restore it. Prevention: Always verify existing entries survived after every multi-line patch using grep -n on the affected section. Never remove content from the old_string that isn't meant to be dropped — even if you're just adding lines, every line in old_string must also be in new_string.
Section K: Raw Article Coverage Audit (wiki-raw-coverage-gap)
See references/raw-article-coverage-audit.md for full procedure.
Quantify the gap between wiki/raw/articles/ and wiki knowledge pages. Identifies:
- What percentage of raw articles are referenced in wiki knowledge
- Which sources have the biggest untapped backlogs
- Date distribution of unreferenced articles
- Priority classification (AI-core vs AI-adjacent vs tech-general vs discardable)
Key technique: find wiki/... -print0 | xargs -0 grep -oh 'raw/articles/[^ )>...' to extract references (subprocess grep -roh fails silently).
Section M: Stale Directory Content Rescue (wiki-stale-dir-merge)
When subagents or misconfigured paths write wiki content to a non-canonical location (e.g., /opt/data/home/wiki/ instead of /opt/data/wiki/ → /opt/data/ai-topics/wiki/), use this systematic rescue workflow.
Detection
find /opt/data/home/ -maxdepth 4 -type d 2>/dev/null
Canonical Path Verification
- Canonical wiki path:
/opt/data/wiki/ → symlink to /opt/data/ai-topics/wiki/
- NEVER:
/opt/data/home/wiki/ — subagents may default to this stale path
Rescue Workflow
Phase 1 — Full enumeration: List ALL files in both stale and canonical locations:
find /opt/data/home/wiki/ -type f | sort > /tmp/stale_files.txt
find /opt/data/wiki/concepts/ -type f | sort > /tmp/canon_concepts.txt
find /opt/data/wiki/entities/ -type f | sort > /tmp/canon_entities.txt
find /opt/data/wiki/raw/ -type f | sort > /tmp/canon_raw.txt
Phase 2 — Categorize every file into one of four buckets:
| Bucket | Condition | Action |
|---|
| COPY NEW | Stale file exists, no canonical counterpart | cp to canonical, add to index.md, add to log.md |
| MERGE | Both exist, stale has unique content | Read both, diff, enrich canonical with stale's unique parts |
| SKIP (canon richer) | Both exist, canonical is larger/better structured | Do nothing — stale is outdated |
| MERGE (stale richer) | Both exist, stale is larger/more detailed | Merge stale's rich content into canonical, preserving canonical's unique facts |
Phase 3 — Execute in priority order: COPY NEW first (no conflict), then MERGE cases (need diffing), SKIP last (no action).
Phase 4 — For raw articles: Deduplicate by basename. Copy only new files. Never overwrite existing canonical raw articles.
Phase 5 — Post-merge actions:
- Update
wiki/index.md — add entries for new pages, update section counts
- Update
wiki/log.md — append chronological log entry
- Handle tag taxonomy violations if pre-commit hook blocks (see A3b)
git add wiki/ && git commit && git push
Phase 6 — Cleanup:
rm -r -f /opt/data/home/wiki /opt/data/home/ai-topics
Edge Cases Handled in This Workflow
- Same person, different filename (e.g.,
0xsero.md stale vs sero.md canonical): read both frontmatter titles/aliases → confirm same entity → MERGE if stale has unique content, SKIP if canonical is richer
- Same company, different filename (e.g.,
factory-ai.md vs factory.md): same as above
- Raw article filenames with colons (e.g.,
how-agents-manage-other-agents:-four-subagents...): handle with quotes in shell commands
- Stale has newer frontmatter tags but canonical has richer body: MERGE tags into canonical, keep canonical body
Prevention
- Ensure
AGENTS.md documents canonical paths prominently
- Verify subagent output paths after
delegate_task — check /opt/data/ai-topics/wiki/ not /opt/data/home/
Support Files
scripts/add_updated_dates.py — Batch-add updated date to wiki pages that have frontmatter but lack the field. Skips _index.md and raw/articles. Run with python3 scripts/add_updated_dates.py [--date YYYY-MM-DD].references/cron-mode-pitfalls.md — Cron-mode execute_code blocks, _index.md counting in health reports, str.replace() anchor swallowingreferences/watchdog-healthy-baseline.md — Structured baseline for watchdog runs: metric thresholds, verification commands, auto-fix scope limits, escalation report format, and decision flow.scripts/fix_broken_wikilinks.py — Auto-fix empty wikilinks via fuzzy matchingscripts/tag_normalization.py — Comprehensive tag normalization (synonym mapping, body-safe)scripts/tag_audit.py — Tag analysis and auditingscripts/validate_index.py — Pre-commit validator for baked-in numbers, pipe prefixes, truncation artifacts in wiki/index.md. Run with python3 scripts/validate_index.py; exit 0 = clean, 1 = issues found. Called by .githooks/pre-commit. See Section H for recovery procedure..githooks/pre-commit — Git hook that runs validate_index.py on staged wiki/index.md. Activated via git config core.hooksPath .githooks. Tracked in-repo.references/wiki-health-script-optimization.md — Performance optimization of wiki_health.py: single-pass read pattern, set-based matching, 0.28s (2026-05-13)references/json-output-processing.md — JSON output processing from wiki_health.py--jsonreferences/raw-article-coverage-audit.md — Analyzes unreferenced raw articles: extraction pipeline, coverage calculation, source/date categorization, priority classificationreferences/bare-wikilink-batch-fix.md — Efficient batch fix for bare wikilinks lacking namespace prefixes (scan→map→regex-replace in 3 phases)references/broken-wikilink-repair.md — Detailed guide for broken wikilinksreferences/index-corruption-recovery.md — Full procedure for baked-in number + truncation artifact recovery (session detail)
