Show HN: Wenlan – a living wiki AI keeps current without overwriting your edits

Category: ai-ml

Tags: knowledge-base, ai-memory, local-first, markdown, mcp, rust, llm-wiki

Score: 7.3/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 8, Utility: 6)

Wenlan is a local-first knowledge base that turns documents, notes, and AI conversations into source-backed Markdown Pages that stay current as sources change, without overwriting human edits. It builds on Karpathy's LLM-wiki concept with a typed memory schema, entity-relation graph, and conflict-review workflow, implemented as a Rust daemon with desktop app, CLI, and MCP connectors for Claude Code and Codex.

Target audience: researchers, writers, consultants, product and software teams using AI agents who need durable, source-traceable knowledge

Repository: https://github.com/7xuanlu/wenlan · Rust · Apache-2.0 · 70 stars

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