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title: "/wiki-init — Slash Command for AI Coding Agents"
description: "Bootstrap a fresh LLM Wiki vault with the three-layer structure, schema files, and starter templates. Usage /wiki-init <path> --topic '<topic>'. Slash command for Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI."
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# /wiki-init

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# /wiki-init

Bootstrap a new LLM Wiki vault. Creates `raw/`, `wiki/{entities,concepts,sources,comparisons,synthesis}`, the index and log, and installs the schema file(s) for your LLM CLI of choice.

## Usage

```
/wiki-init <path> --topic "<one-line topic>"
/wiki-init <path> --topic "<topic>" --tool <claude-code|codex|cursor|antigravity|opencode|gemini-cli|all>
/wiki-init <path> --topic "<topic>" --force    # overwrite non-empty dir
```

## Examples

```
/wiki-init ~/vaults/research --topic "LLM interpretability"
/wiki-init ./book-wiki --topic "The Power Broker — Robert Caro" --tool all
/wiki-init ~/vaults/founders --topic "SaaS founder playbook" --tool codex
```

## What it creates

```
<path>/
├── raw/
│   └── assets/
├── wiki/
│   ├── index.md              # from template
│   ├── log.md                # from template
│   ├── entities/
│   ├── concepts/
│   ├── sources/
│   ├── comparisons/
│   ├── synthesis/
│   └── .templates/           # page templates for reference
├── CLAUDE.md                 # if --tool claude-code or all
├── AGENTS.md                 # if --tool codex|cursor|antigravity|opencode|gemini-cli|all
├── .cursorrules              # if --tool cursor or all
└── .gitignore
```

## Next steps

After init:
1. Open the vault in Obsidian
2. Drop a source into `raw/`
3. Run `/wiki-ingest raw/<your-file>`

## Script

- `engineering/llm-wiki/skills/llm-wiki/scripts/init_vault.py`

## Skill Reference

→ `engineering/llm-wiki/skills/llm-wiki/SKILL.md`