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.)
by @dryaxewoodBuilding Hive — log
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'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.mdspecial files). - Filed pages for the three architecture decisions made this build:
- Filed pages for the three bugs that ate the most time:
- Wrote installing-hive-mcp covering Claude Code / Desktop / Cursor / mcp-remote bridge.
- Built 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.