Author(s): Dylan Tartarini

Originally published on Towards AI.

Compounding knowledge using AI Agents

Some time ago, Andrej Karpathy released a Github GiST containing a guide, or better, an intuition on how to build one’s own personal knowledge base. The core philosophy behind the concept is simple and to the point:

The author explains that while the original LLM-wiki idea emphasizes compiling personal notes into a compounding markdown wiki via an LLM agent, most implementations are too developer-centric, so they build their own approach (DyResearch). They outline the shift from a single coding assistant toward a team/faculty of specialized agents integrated with Obsidian, combining a compounding wiki concept with local, lightweight retrieval through a dual storage architecture. They describe the agent roles (Study Coordinator, Professor, Librarian, Researcher, Note Taker), how DyResearch is served via a FastAPI backend and connected to Obsidian through a custom community plugin, and how the system manages sessions/events and source retrieval. Finally, they detail their implementation choices for orchestration (Google ADK), database/session persistence (Postgres + pgvector vs local-first SQLite + LanceDB), and the plugin features that let users chat, ingest documents, and automatically generate or update notes inside their vault.

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