How do I install the Ingest skill?

Run npx skillmds@latest add jackwener/ingest in your terminal (requires Node.js), paste this page's agent-chat prompt into Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-connected agent, or download the SKILL.md file and copy it into your agent's skills directory.

Is Ingest safe to use?

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Which AI agents work with Ingest?

This skill is tagged as working with Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex. SKILL.md is an open format, so most agents that read a skills directory can load it too.

Is Ingest free to use?

Yes. Installing skills from SkillMD is free, and the skill stays under its author's original license.

Who published Ingest?

jackwener (@jackwener) published this skill. Their other Agent Skills are listed on their SkillMD profile.

Ingest by jackwener — Agent Skill

Name: Ingest
Author: jackwener

Ingest

Ingest source material into an LLM Wiki vault. Use whenever the user invokes `/ingest`, asks to turn documents, notes, chats, or URLs into durable wiki knowledge, or asks to create or update interconnected wiki pages from source material.

jackwener 11d835a 2.7 KB Updated Sep 17, 2026

File contents

Ingest an LLM Wiki source

Turn a source into concise, attributable, interconnected wiki pages. The wiki is the maintained knowledge layer; sources/ is the immutable evidence layer.

Before editing

Locate the vault by finding .llm-wiki/config.toml.
Read wiki-purpose.md, wiki-schema.md, and wiki-agent.md when present. The latter defines vault-specific MUST / MAY / NEVER ingest criteria.
Skip material that the agent policy excludes, contains credentials or personal data, or duplicates existing knowledge.
If the vault is empty, agree with the user on language, page layout, directory structure, and filename conventions before creating pages.
If the material would change established scope, page boundaries, naming, or linking strategy, present the proposed structure before editing. Apply straightforward additions directly.

Workflow

Check wiki/, wiki-log.md, and llm-wiki search for prior ingestion of the source or its topics. Re-ingest only changed or newly useful material.
Copy raw input to sources/YYYY-MM-DD/, preserving its original name. Add a version suffix if needed. Once saved, never edit that copy. Split large chat logs or collections by date or topic before saving.
Extract claims, entities, decisions, open questions, and relationships.
Create or merge focused pages in wiki/. Every page needs the fields required by wiki-schema.md; normally this includes:
```
---
title: Page Title
description: One-line summary
aliases: [alternate names]
tags: [taxonomy tags]
sources: [YYYY-MM-DD/source.md]
created: YYYY-MM-DD
updated: YYYY-MM-DD
---
```
Bug or issue pages also need machine-readable status: open | resolved | wontfix.
Merge rather than overwrite. When sources conflict, preserve both claims, identify their sources, and flag the conflict rather than silently choosing one.
Add [[wikilinks]] for related entities, including useful not-yet-created pages, and finish each page with a ## Related section.
Append a concise ## [YYYY-MM-DD] ingest | … entry to wiki-log.md with pages created or updated.
Run llm-wiki sync after the changes.

Quality bar

Summarize rather than copy source text.
Keep every claim traceable through sources frontmatter.
Keep each page about one topic; split pages that become multi-topic.
Write in the language specified in .llm-wiki/config.toml.

---name: ingestdescription: Ingest source material into an LLM Wiki vault. Use whenever the user invokes `/ingest`, asks to turn documents, notes, chats, or URLs into durable wiki knowledge, or asks to create or update interconnected wiki pages from source material.---# Ingest an LLM Wiki sourceTurn a source into concise, attributable, interconnected wiki pages. The wikiis the maintained knowledge layer; `sources/` is the immutable evidence layer.## Before editing1. Locate the vault by finding `.llm-wiki/config.toml`.2. Read `wiki-purpose.md`, `wiki-schema.md`, and `wiki-agent.md` when present. The latter defines vault-specific MUST / MAY / NEVER ingest criteria.3. Skip material that the agent policy excludes, contains credentials or personal data, or duplicates existing knowledge.4. If the vault is empty, agree with the user on language, page layout, directory structure, and filename conventions before creating pages.5. If the material would change established scope, page boundaries, naming, or linking strategy, present the proposed structure before editing. Apply straightforward additions directly.## Workflow1. Check `wiki/`, `wiki-log.md`, and `llm-wiki search` for prior ingestion of the source or its topics. Re-ingest only changed or newly useful material.2. Copy raw input to `sources/YYYY-MM-DD/`, preserving its original name. Add a version suffix if needed. Once saved, never edit that copy. Split large chat logs or collections by date or topic before saving.3. Extract claims, entities, decisions, open questions, and relationships.4. Create or merge focused pages in `wiki/`. Every page needs the fields required by `wiki-schema.md`; normally this includes: ```yaml --- title: Page Title description: One-line summary aliases: [alternate names] tags: [taxonomy tags] sources: [YYYY-MM-DD/source.md] created: YYYY-MM-DD updated: YYYY-MM-DD --- ``` Bug or issue pages also need machine-readable `status: open | resolved | wontfix`.5. Merge rather than overwrite. When sources conflict, preserve both claims, identify their sources, and flag the conflict rather than silently choosing one.6. Add `[[wikilinks]]` for related entities, including useful not-yet-created pages, and finish each page with a `## Related` section.7. Append a concise `## [YYYY-MM-DD] ingest | …` entry to `wiki-log.md` with pages created or updated.8. Run `llm-wiki sync` after the changes.## Quality bar- Summarize rather than copy source text.- Keep every claim traceable through `sources` frontmatter.- Keep each page about one topic; split pages that become multi-topic.- Write in the language specified in `.llm-wiki/config.toml`.

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