Context management: the LLM Wiki pattern inside the repo
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Andrej Karpathy's LLM Wiki is a small idea with an annoying amount of truth in it. Plain RAG is good at finding passages. It is much worse at keeping the synthesis alive after the answer is done.
That hurts in software work. A coding agent can read the release docs, scan the task history, find a half-forgotten migration note, and still leave the next agent to repeat the same archaeology next week. The useful part of the work was the cleaned-up map of what the project knows. The final answer was just one expression of that map.
That is what the LLM Wiki pattern is really about: raw sources stay raw, and the model maintains a wiki that gets better over time. Agentplane 0.6 takes that idea and makes it fit a Git repository.