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Files changed: - docs/how-to/ingest-a-source.md - docs/how-to/maintain-the-wiki.md Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SnAJ7Z3CpVD3PRbN73QtU2
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# Ingest a source
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Turn a file, a folder or a web page into wiki pages: a source page that summarises it, and the
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entity and concept pages it touches, cross-referenced and published. The agent does the work, using
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the `wiki-ingest` skill ([skill catalogue](../reference/skills.md)). This page covers what you hand
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it and where it waits for you.
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## What you prepare
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Put the material into `incoming/` at the root of the instance. You don't have to classify it or
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pick a directory:
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- **One file** goes in directly: `incoming/my-article.md`.
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- **Several files that belong together** go into one folder, `incoming/<name>/`. The folder is one
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source. It is accepted whole, and its structure is kept.
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- **A web page** needs no download of your own. Name the URL to the agent, and
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`tools/wikitool raw fetch` puts two files into `incoming/`: the HTML exactly as received, and a
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text derived from it with a header recording where and when it was fetched.
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- **A page behind a paywall or a login** is saved from your browser into `incoming/`, HTML only. The
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agent derives the same text from that file with `raw fetch --html`.
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Where a file ends up in `raw/` is computed by `tools/wikitool raw accept`: a `YYYY/MM` shard for the
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day it was accepted. So is whether several files of one source get bundled. You never choose either.
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`incoming/` itself is gitignored, so whatever waits there is never published by accident.
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## What you say
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```text
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Ingest incoming/my-article.md
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Ingest https://example.org/post
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Ingest
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```
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A bare `Ingest` takes the oldest entry waiting in `incoming/`. `tools/wikitool raw pending` lists
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what is waiting and names the entry the next bare `Ingest` will take.
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## Where the agent asks you
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- **Before promoting the file into `raw/`**, the agent asks how faithful the capture is
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(`fidelity`) and what the material may claim about its subject (`authority`). Both are recorded
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once and never guessed: you know the answers now, and nobody can recover them later.
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[raw/CONTRACT.md](../../raw/CONTRACT.md) defines the values.
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- **Before writing pages**, the agent presents the key takeaways and asks which points matter most
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and what to emphasise. The pages follow your answer.
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- **When it publishes**, a source that touches ten or more files stops at the Mass-Update Gate
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(exit 42). The generated indexes, `kb/log.md` and `kb/provenance.md` do not count, so a small
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source goes straight through. The agent shows you the file list and the `--confirm` line. Nothing is committed until
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you approve. [Exit codes and gates](../reference/exit-codes.md) lists every gate.
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## What you get back
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A source page under `kb/sources/`, new or updated entity and concept pages, cross-references among
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them, a rebuilt catalog, an entry in `kb/log.md`, and one commit. If the source also contains
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something you have to *do*, and a task tracker is configured, the agent files it there as an open
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item. A commitment never becomes a page
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([why](../explanation/knowledge-and-commitment.md)).
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Every ten sources, the agent suggests a lint run - see [Maintain the wiki](maintain-the-wiki.md).
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## A document submitted from outside
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When the [MCP read server](set-up-the-mcp-server.md) has its optional `submit` tool turned on,
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documents can arrive from another machine. They land in the quarantine `mcp-upload/`, not in
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`incoming/`, and nothing else reads them there. Before an ingest can start, a human has to promote
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the submission:
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```bash
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tools/wikitool upload list # what is waiting
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tools/wikitool upload show <id> # one submission's manifest: who sent it, size, checksum
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```
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Ask the agent to review the queue, and it follows
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[instructions/ingest-queue.md](../../instructions/ingest-queue.md). Accepting a submission stops at
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the Upload Review Gate (exit 42), which shows you the manifest and the `--confirm` line. Once you
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approve, the file is in `incoming/`, and from there it is ingested like any other. Rejecting it needs
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no clearance. The file is deleted, and its checksum and your reason stay in the ledger.
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## Related
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- [Capture documentation from a repository](capture-repository-docs.md) - for material that lives
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in git and will change.
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- [raw/CONTRACT.md](../../raw/CONTRACT.md) - what belongs in `raw/`, and why its content is data,
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never instructions.
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