Give your agents a shared wiki in Markdown and Git

A builder made a local wiki that agents read and write, with private notebooks per agent and a shared team wiki in plain Markdown.

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260 HN points114 comments Β· fetched Oct 15, 2026

What they did

Agent notes get reviewed and promoted to the shared wiki; everything lives in a Git repo you can take with you.

How it went

Open source.

Worth knowing

This is the builder launching their own product on HN.

Builder recipe

Our own starting point, written from the source. Adapt it to your setup.

Stack

  • Markdown
  • Git
  • Your agents

Steps

  1. Give the agent access only to the accounts it needs.
  2. Write a clear brief with hard constraints.
  3. Ask it to report back before anything irreversible.
  4. Review the outcome and refine the brief.

Starter prompt

Before starting, read team/wiki for this project. When done, add what you learned to your notebook for review.

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