patterns/incremental-ingest.md

Summary

The safest way to grow the wiki is one source at a time, with explicit updates to affected pages and a visible log entry.

Key points

  • One-source ingest limits drift.
  • It keeps contradiction handling visible.
  • It forces intentional promotion instead of dumping everything into the wiki.
  • It gives you a clear audit trail.

Operational relevance

This is the default workflow for early-stage wiki growth. Batch ingest is possible later, but it raises the risk of elegant garbage.

Open questions

  • At what source volume does batch mode become worth it?
  • Which source types need different ingest templates?

Sources

  • docs/INGEST_WORKFLOW.md
  • wiki/sources/karpathy-llm-wiki-gist.md