An agent-agnostic recipe for LLM-maintained software knowledge bases

Andrej Karpathy's "LLM Wiki" (2026) introduced the idea of using an LLM agent as the bookkeeper of a structured knowledge base. This kit operationalises that idea for a concrete purpose: keeping open-source scientific (read: underfunded) software projects maintainable as contributors come and go. Westner et al. (2025) report bus factors of 1–3 across major FOSS projects in neuroscience. "More docs and comments" is not a sustainable solution; bookkeeping is boring, so why not outsource it to an LLM under a standing rule the agent loads every session?

Usage: Hand this file to a coding agent and say "set it up." The agent does the rest. This file is consumed once; what persists is the small skeleton and the standing rule it installs.

In the wild: This kit was developed alongside [IDE4EEG](https://gitlab.com/fuw_software/ide