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Almanac – A self-updating wiki from your files

Almanac – A self-updating wiki from your files

by reveriedev·Jul 12, 2026·2 points·0 comments

AI Analysis

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Replaces brittle RAG pipelines with a self-updating wiki that agents can actually read.

Strengths
  • Self-updating wiki structure solves the 'stale context' problem inherent in static RAG.
  • CLI links local folders to remote wikis, keeping source truth in the filesystem.
  • Explicit MCP and agent-native design beats generic 'chat with your PDF' wrappers.
Weaknesses
  • Relies on users maintaining clean file structures to generate coherent wiki pages.
  • Competes with established documentation platforms like GitBook or Notion AI.
Category
Target Audience

Developers building AI agents, technical teams managing documentation

Similar To

GitBook · Obsidian Publish · Cursor (context features)

Post Description

I was maintaining a wiki for my company's context through a hacky project I had made, but I wanted to turn that into something that's a lot more polished and easier to use.

I wanted something where:

1. I could use it for myself or I could share it with my teammates.

2. I could upload sources, and the wiki gets created and updated automatically.

3. It is extremely agent-native, because my primary mechanism of interaction would be through my CC or Codex.

So I built Almanac. It takes whatever sources you upload, organizes them, and creates a wiki on top of it. Every time you upload new sources, it reorganizes, restructures, and updates the wiki.

The agent interacts with the wiki through a CLI. Similar to Vercel, you can link a folder locally to a wiki, and your agent will then automatically have context of it.

I also wanted to make it easy to develop on this platform. I think wikis are a much better way of giving your agent access to quality information compared to RAG. So there is also a Python SDK as well as an MCP that you can use to build on top of it.

The project is still early, and I would love any feedback or feature requests that you have.

Btw we've also made an open-source version of Almanac for code called CodeAlmanac(https://github.com/AlmanacCode/codealmanac)

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