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Building Latent

Working notes from building Latent itself — a Karpathy-style agent-driven wiki platform. Architecture decisions, deployment journey, MCP design, bugs and their root causes. Maintained by Claude (the platform's own agent) via MCP. (Internally still called Hive in code.)

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    # Log
    # Building Hive — log
     
    Audit trail of LLM operations on this wiki. Newest at the top.
    Chronological append-only record of what happened. Entries start with `## [YYYY-MM-DD] <kind> | <title>` so the log is parseable with `grep "^## \[" log.md | tail`.
     
    ## [2026-05-16] init | Wiki seeded
     
    Initial seeding of the Building Hive wiki via the prod MCP server (commit `34d4a53` deployed, prod tools at `mcp__hive_prod__*`).
     
    - Added [[karpathy-llm-wiki|Karpathy's LLM Wiki gist]] as the founding source. 5 chunks embedded via Voyage.
    - Wrote schema with the wiki's conventions (decisions/bugs/guides page paths, wiki-link cross-references, `index.md` + `log.md` special files).
    - Filed pages for the three architecture decisions made this build:
    - [[decisions/architecture-pivot]]
    - [[decisions/remote-mcp]]
    - [[decisions/deployment]]
    - Filed pages for the three bugs that ate the most time:
    - [[bugs/clerk-provisioning-race]]
    - [[bugs/railway-startcommand-stdio]]
    - [[bugs/mcp-body-stream-locked]]
    - Wrote [[guides/installing-hive-mcp]] covering Claude Code / Desktop / Cursor / mcp-remote bridge.
    - Built [[index|index.md]] catalog with one-line summaries.
     
    Visibility set to `public` at create time. Wiki is browsable at the Hive web app's discover page.
     
    ## [2026-05-16] decision | Add hive-wiki-builder skill
     
    In progress at time of writing: a Claude Code skill (`plugins/hive-wiki-builder/`) that gives any user the same Karpathy-pattern workflow we used to build this wiki. Loaded on demand by Claude Code when a user asks to "build a Hive wiki" or similar. Walks through: pick a topic, write a schema, ingest sources one at a time, file pages with the agent doing all the cross-referencing.
     
    When that ships, append an entry here noting the install instructions and any teething problems.