MCP Server Explanation

explain this: #!/usr/bin/env python3 """ MCP Server for KB (Knowledge Base) Tools Exposes wiki-compile, wiki-qa, wiki-lint, and wiki-output tools via MCP. Enhanced with hybrid search combining vector, graph, and BM25 search. """ import asyncio import json import os import sys import subprocess import re import math from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple from dataclasses import dataclass from collections import Counter # Add the kb directory to path for importing hybrid search SCRIPT_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)) KB_ROOT = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(SCRIPT_DIR, '..', 'kb')) KB_TOOLS_DIR = os.path.join(KB_ROOT, 'tools') KB_SEARCH_DIR = os.path.join(KB_ROOT, 'search') KB_INGESTION_DIR = os.path.join(KB_ROOT, 'ingestion') WIKI_DIR = os.path.join(KB_ROOT, 'wiki') # Add KB directories to path sys.path.insert(0, KB_SEARCH_DIR) sys.path.insert(0, KB_INGESTION_DIR) # Try to import hybrid search components try: from hybrid_search import HybridSearchEngine, SearchResult as HybridSearchResult HYBRID_SEARCH_AVAILABLE = True except ImportError as e: print(f"Warning: Hybrid search not available: {e}") HYBRID_SEARCH_AVAILABLE = False # BM25 parameters (fallback) K1 = 1.5 B = 0.75 @dataclass class SearchResult: """Enhanced search result with scoring details""" path: str filename: str name: str score: float matched_terms: List[str] contexts: List[str] bm25_score: float title_boost: float vector_score: float = 0.0 graph_score: float = 0.0 related_entities: List[str] = None def tokenize(text: str) -> List[str]: """Tokenize text into terms""" text = text.lower() words = re.findall(r'\b[a-z]{3,}\b', text) stopwords = {'this', 'that', 'with', 'from', 'have', 'been', 'will', 'they', 'their', 'them', 'what', 'when', 'where', 'which', 'while', 'about', 'into', 'through', 'between', 'after', 'before', 'above', 'below', 'using', 'used', 'also', 'can', 'could', 'would'} return [w for w in words if w not in stopwords] def calculate_bm25(query_terms: List[str], doc_terms: List[str], doc_length: int, avg_doc_length: float, doc_freq: Dict[str, int], total_docs: int) -> float: """Calculate BM25 score for a document""" score = 0.0 term_counts = Counter(doc_terms) for term in query_terms: if term not in term_counts: continue tf = term_counts[term] df = doc_freq.get(term, 0) idf = math.log((total_docs - df + 0.5) / (df + 0.5) + 1.0) tf_component = (tf * (K1 + 1)) / (tf + K1 * (1 - B + B * (doc_length / avg_doc_length))) score += idf * tf_component return score def extract_all_contexts(content: str, query_terms: List[str], context_chars: int = 150, max_contexts: int = 5) -> List[str]: """Extract context around all query term matches""" contexts = [] content_lower = content.lower() positions = [] for term in query_terms: term_lower = term.lower() start = 0 while True: pos = content_lower.find(term_lower, start) if pos == -1: break positions.append(pos) start = pos + 1 positions = sorted(set(positions)) for pos in positions[:max_contexts]: start = max(0, pos - context_chars) end = min(len(content), pos + len(query_terms[0]) + context_chars) context = content[start:end].strip() if start > 0: context = "..." + context if end < len(content): context = context + "..." for term in query_terms: pattern = re.compile(re.escape(term), re.IGNORECASE) context = pattern.sub(f'**{term}**', context) contexts.append(context) return contexts class EnhancedKBMCPServer: def __init__(self): self.tools = { "wiki_compile": { "name": "wiki_compile", "description": "Compile and update the knowledge base wiki from raw sources. Scans for changed files and generates summaries.", "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": {}, "required": [] } }, "wiki_search": { "name": "wiki_search", "description": "Search the knowledge base wiki for relevant content using enhanced BM25 scoring", "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "query": { "type": "string", "description": "Search query" }, "limit": { "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum number of results to return", "default": 10 }, "search_type": { "type": "string", "description": "Search type: 'full' (BM25), 'exact' (phrase match), 'semantic' (future)", "enum": ["full", "exact", "semantic"], "default": "full" } }, "required": ["query"] } }, "hybrid_search": { "name": "hybrid_search", "description": "Search using hybrid search combining vector, graph, and BM25 search for optimal results", "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "query": { "type": "string", "description": "Search query" }, "limit": { "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum number of results to return", "default": 10 }, "search_type": { "type": "string", "description": "Search type: 'hybrid', 'vector', 'graph', 'bm25'", "enum": ["hybrid", "vector", "graph", "bm25"], "default": "hybrid" } }, "required": ["query"] } }, "vector_search": { "name": "vector_search", "description": "Search using vector similarity (semantic search)", "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "query": { "type": "string", "description": "Search query" }, "limit": { "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum number of results to return", "default": 10 } }, "required": ["query"] } }, "graph_search": { "name": "graph_search", "description": "Search using graph relationships and entity connections", "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "query": { "type": "string", "description": "Search query" }, "limit": { "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum number of results to return", "default": 10 } }, "required": ["query"] } }, "entity_info": { "name": "entity_info", "description": "Get detailed information about an entity and its relationships", "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "entity_name": { "type": "string", "description": "Name of the entity to get info about" } }, "required": ["entity_name"] } }, "related_entities": { "name": "related_entities", "description": "Get entities related to a given entity", "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "entity_name": { "type": "string", "description": "Name of the entity to find related entities for" }, "max_hops": { "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum number of hops to traverse", "default": 2 }, "limit": { "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum number of results to return", "default": 10 } }, "required": ["entity_name"] } }, "index_documents": { "name": "index_documents", "description": "Index documents in the knowledge base for search", "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "directory": { "type": "string", "description": "Directory to index (default: wiki)", "default": "wiki" }, "reindex": { "type": "boolean", "description": "Whether to reindex from scratch", "default": False } }, "required": [] } }, "wiki_read": { "name": "wiki_read", "description": "Read the full content of a wiki document", "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "path": { "type": "string", "description": "Path to the document relative to kb directory" } }, "required": ["path"] } }, "wiki_concepts": { "name": "wiki_concepts", "description": "List all concept pages in the knowledge base", "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": {}, "required": [] } }, "wiki_summaries": { "name": "wiki_summaries", "description": "List all summary documents in the knowledge base", "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": {}, "required": [] } }, "wiki_stats": { "name": "wiki_stats", "description": "Get statistics about the knowledge base", "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": {}, "required": [] } }, "wiki_lint": { "name": "wiki_lint", "description": "Run health checks on the knowledge base wiki", "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": {}, "required": [] } }, "wiki_create_slides": { "name": "wiki_create_slides", "description": "Create Marp presentation slides from knowledge base content", "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "title": { "type": "string", "description": "Title for the presentation" }, "query": { "type": "string", "description": "Search query to find content for slides" }, "output_name": { "type": "string", "description": "Output filename (without extension)" } }, "required": ["title", "query", "output_name"] } }, "wiki_create_report": { "name": "wiki_create_report", "description": "Create a formatted report from knowledge base content", "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "title": { "type": "string", "description": "Title for the report" }, "query": { "type": "string", "description": "Search query to find content for report" }, "output_name": { "type": "string", "description": "Output filename (without extension)" } }, "required": ["title", "query", "output_name"] } } } # Initialize hybrid search engine if available self.hybrid_engine = None if HYBRID_SEARCH_AVAILABLE: try: self.hybrid_engine = HybridSearchEngine() print("Hybrid search engine initialized") except Exception as e: print(f"Failed to initialize hybrid search: {e}") # Cache for document statistics self._doc_stats_cache = None self._cache_timestamp = 0 def _get_document_stats(self) -> Tuple[int, float, Dict[str, int]]: """Get document statistics for BM25 calculation""" import time current_time = time.time() if self._doc_stats_cache and (current_time - self._cache_timestamp) < 300: return self._doc_stats_cache total_docs = 0 total_length = 0 doc_freq = Counter() if not os.path.exists(WIKI_DIR): return 0, 0, {} for root, dirs, files in os.walk(WIKI_DIR): for file in files: if not file.endswith('.md'): continue filepath = os.path.join(root, file) try: with open(filepath, 'r', encoding='utf-8', errors='ignore') as f: content = f.read() terms = tokenize(content) total_docs += 1 total_length += len(terms) unique_terms = set(terms) for term in unique_terms: doc_freq[term] += 1 except Exception: continue avg_doc_length = total_length / total_docs if total_docs > 0 else 0 self._doc_stats_cache = (total_docs, avg_doc_length, dict(doc_freq)) self._cache_timestamp = current_time return self._doc_stats_cache def enhanced_search(self, query: str, limit: int = 10, search_type: str = "full") -> List[SearchResult]: """Enhanced search with BM25 scoring and multi-match context extraction""" query_terms = tokenize(query) if not query_terms: return [] total_docs, avg_doc_length, doc_freq = self._get_document_stats() if total_docs == 0: return [] results = [] for root, dirs, files in os.walk(WIKI_DIR): for file in files: if not file.endswith('.md'): continue filepath = os.path.join(root, file) try: with open(filepath, 'r', encoding='utf-8', errors='ignore') as f: content = f.read() content_lower = content.lower() doc_terms = tokenize(content) bm25_score = calculate_bm25( query_terms, doc_terms, len(doc_terms), avg_doc_length, doc_freq, total_docs ) title_boost = 0 filename_lower = file.lower() for term in query_terms: if term in filename_lower: title_boost += 10 if search_type == "exact": if query.lower() in content_lower: bm25_score += 20 matched_terms = [term for term in query_terms if term in content_lower] if bm25_score > 0 or title_boost > 0: contexts = extract_all_contexts(content, query_terms) total_score = bm25_score + title_boost results.append(SearchResult( path=os.path.relpath(filepath, KB_ROOT), filename=file, name=os.path.splitext(file)[0], score=total_score, matched_terms=matched_terms, contexts=contexts, bm25_score=bm25_score, title_boost=title_boost )) except Exception: continue results.sort(key=lambda x: x.score, reverse=True) return results[:limit] def _run_tool(self, tool_name: str, args: List[str]) -> str: """Run a kb tool and return its output""" tool_path = os.path.join(KB_TOOLS_DIR, f"{tool_name}.py") if not os.path.exists(tool_path): return f"Error: Tool {tool_name} not found at {tool_path}" try: result = subprocess.run( [sys.executable, tool_path] + args, capture_output=True, text=True, cwd=KB_ROOT, timeout=30 ) return result.stdout if result.stdout else result.stderr except subprocess.TimeoutExpired: return "Error: Tool execution timed out" except Exception as e: return f"Error: {str(e)}" async def handle_request(self, request: Dict[str, Any]) -> Dict[str, Any]: """Handle incoming MCP requests""" method = request.get("method") params = request.get("params", {}) request_id = request.get("id") if method == "initialize": return { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": request_id, "result": { "protocolVersion": "2024-11-05", "capabilities": { "tools": {} }, "serverInfo": { "name": "kb-tools-hybrid", "version": "3.0.0" } } } elif method == "notifications/initialized": return None elif method == "tools/list": return { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": request_id, "result": { "tools": list(self.tools.values()) } } elif method == "tools/call": tool_name = params.get("name") arguments = params.get("arguments", {}) if tool_name == "wiki_compile": output = self._run_tool("wiki-compile", []) return { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": request_id, "result": { "content": [{"type": "text", "text": output}] } } elif tool_name == "wiki_search": query = arguments.get("query", "") limit = arguments.get("limit", 10) search_type = arguments.get("search_type", "full") results = self.enhanced_search(query, limit, search_type) if not results: output = "No results found." else: output_lines = [f"Search results for '{query}' (BM25 scoring):\n"] for i, result in enumerate(results, 1): output_lines.append(f"{i}. [[{result.name}]] (score: {result.score:.2f})") output_lines.append(f" Path: {result.path}") output_lines.append(f" Matched terms: {', '.join(result.matched_terms)}") if result.contexts: output_lines.append(" Contexts:") for j, ctx in enumerate(result.contexts[:3], 1): ctx_display = ctx[:200] + "..." if len(ctx) > 200 else ctx output_lines.append(f" {j}. {ctx_display}") output_lines.append("") output = "\n".join(output_lines) return { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": request_id, "result": { "content": [{"type": "text", "text": output}] } } elif tool_name == "hybrid_search": if not self.hybrid_engine: return { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": request_id, "result": { "content": [{"type": "text", "text": "Hybrid search not available. Please install required dependencies."}] } } query = arguments.get("query", "") limit = arguments.get("limit", 10) search_type = arguments.get("search_type", "hybrid") try: results = self.hybrid_engine.search(query, limit, search_type) output = self.hybrid_engine.format_results(results, query) except Exception as e: output = f"Search error: {str(e)}" return { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": request_id, "result": { "content": [{"type": "text", "text": output}] } } elif tool_name == "vector_search": if not self.hybrid_engine: return { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": request_id, "result": { "content": [{"type": "text", "text": "Vector search not available. Please install required dependencies."}] } } query = arguments.get("query", "") limit = arguments.get("limit", 10) try: results = self.hybrid_engine.search_vector(query, limit) output = self.hybrid_engine.format_results(results, query) except Exception as e: output = f"Vector search error: {str(e)}" return { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": request_id, "result": { "content": [{"type": "text", "text": output}] } } elif tool_name == "graph_search": if not self.hybrid_engine: return { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": request_id, "result": { "content": [{"type": "text", "text": "Graph search not available. Please install required dependencies."}] } } query = arguments.get("query", "") limit = arguments.get("limit", 10) try: results = self.hybrid_engine.search_graph(query, limit) output = self.hybrid_engine.format_results(results, query) except Exception as e: output = f"Graph search error: {str(e)}" return { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": request_id, "result": { "content": [{"type": "text", "text": output}] } } elif tool_name == "entity_info": if not self.hybrid_engine or not self.hybrid_engine.graph: return { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": request_id, "result": { "content": [{"type": "text", "text": "Graph search not available. Please install required dependencies."}] } } entity_name = arguments.get("entity_name", "") try: info = self.hybrid_engine.graph.get_entity_info(entity_name) if info: output_lines = [f"Entity Info: {info['name']}\n"] output_lines.append(f"Type: {info['entity_type']}") output_lines.append(f"Mentions: {info['mentions']}") output_lines.append(f"Degree: {info['degree']}") output_lines.append(f"Centrality: {info['centrality']:.4f}") output_lines.append(f"Sources: {len(info['sources'])}") if info['neighbors']: output_lines.append(f"\nTop Neighbors:") for neighbor in info['neighbors'][:10]: output_lines.append(f" - {neighbor['name']} ({neighbor['relationship_type']})") output = "\n".join(output_lines) else: output = f"Entity not found: {entity_name}" except Exception as e: output = f"Error getting entity info: {str(e)}" return { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": request_id, "result": { "content": [{"type": "text", "text": output}] } } elif tool_name == "related_entities": if not self.hybrid_engine or not self.hybrid_engine.graph: return { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": request_id, "result": { "content": [{"type": "text", "text": "Graph search not available. Please install required dependencies."}] } } entity_name = arguments.get("entity_name", "") max_hops = arguments.get("max_hops", 2) limit = arguments.get("limit", 10) try: related = self.hybrid_engine.graph.get_related_entities(entity_name, max_hops, limit) if related: output_lines = [f"Entities related to '{entity_name}':\n"] for i, entity in enumerate(related, 1): output_lines.append(f"{i}. {entity['name']} ({entity['entity_type']})") output_lines.append(f" Relationship: {entity['relationship_type']}, Hops: {entity['hops']}") output = "\n".join(output_lines) else: output = f"No related entities found for: {entity_name}" except Exception as e: output = f"Error getting related entities: {str(e)}" return { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": request_id, "result": { "content": [{"type": "text", "text": output}] } } elif tool_name == "index_documents": try: from pipeline import IngestionPipeline pipeline = IngestionPipeline() directory = arguments.get("directory", "wiki") reindex = arguments.get("reindex", False) if reindex: stats = pipeline.reindex_all() output = f"Reindex complete:\n Wiki: {stats['wiki']['indexed']} files\n Raw: {stats['raw']['indexed']} files" elif directory == "wiki": stats = pipeline.index_wiki() output = f"Wiki indexing complete:\n Total files: {stats['total_files']}\n Indexed: {stats['indexed']}\n Failed: {stats['failed']}\n Time: {stats['elapsed_time']:.2f}s" elif directory == "raw": stats = pipeline.index_raw() output = f"Raw indexing complete:\n Total files: {stats['total_files']}\n Indexed: {stats['indexed']}\n Failed: {stats['failed']}\n Time: {stats['elapsed_time']:.2f}s" else: stats = pipeline.index_directory(directory) output = f"Indexing complete:\n Total files: {stats['total_files']}\n Indexed: {stats['indexed']}\n Failed: {stats['failed']}\n Time: {stats['elapsed_time']:.2f}s" except Exception as e: output = f"Indexing error: {str(e)}" return { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": request_id, "result": { "content": [{"type": "text", "text": output}] } } elif tool_name == "wiki_read": path = arguments.get("path", "") output = self._run_tool("wiki-qa", ["--read", path]) return { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": request_id, "result": { "content": [{"type": "text", "text": output}] } } elif tool_name == "wiki_concepts": output = self._run_tool("wiki-qa", ["--concepts"]) return { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": request_id, "result": { "content": [{"type": "text", "text": output}] } } elif tool_name == "wiki_summaries": output = self._run_tool("wiki-qa", ["--summaries"]) return { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": request_id, "result": { "content": [{"type": "text", "text": output}] } } elif tool_name == "wiki_stats": output = self._run_tool("wiki-qa", ["--stats"]) return { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": request_id, "result": { "content": [{"type": "text", "text": output}] } } elif tool_name == "wiki_lint": output = self._run_tool("wiki-lint", []) return { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": request_id, "result": { "content": [{"type": "text", "text": output}] } } elif tool_name == "wiki_create_slides": title = arguments.get("title", "") query = arguments.get("query", "") output_name = arguments.get("output_name", "") output = self._run_tool("wiki-output", ["--slides", title, query, "-o", output_name]) return { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": request_id, "result": { "content": [{"type": "text", "text": output}] } } elif tool_name == "wiki_create_report": title = arguments.get("title", "") query = arguments.get("query", "") output_name = arguments.get("output_name", "") output = self._run_tool("wiki-output", ["--report", title, query, "-o", output_name]) return { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": request_id, "result": { "content": [{"type": "text", "text": output}] } } else: return { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": request_id, "error": { "code": -32601, "message": f"Unknown tool: {tool_name}" } } else: return { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": request_id, "error": { "code": -32601, "message": f"Unknown method: {method}" } } async def main(): server = EnhancedKBMCPServer() while True: try: line = sys.stdin.readline() if not line: break line_str = line.strip() if not line_str: continue try: request = json.loads(line_str) response = await server.handle_request(request) if response is not None: response_str = json.dumps(response) + '\n' sys.stdout.write(response_str) sys.stdout.flush() except json.JSONDecodeError: pass except Exception as e: pass except Exception: break if __name__ == "__main__": asyncio.run(main()) --as an update to this:LLM Knowledge Bases Something I'm finding very useful recently: using LLMs to build personal knowledge bases for various topics of research interest. In this way, a large fraction of my recent token throughput is going less into manipulating code, and more into manipulating knowledge (stored as markdown and images). The latest LLMs are quite good at it. So: Data ingest: I index source documents (articles, papers, repos, datasets, images, etc.) into a raw/ directory, then I use an LLM to incrementally "compile" a wiki, which is just a collection of .md files in a directory structure. The wiki includes summaries of all the data in raw/, backlinks, and then it categorizes data into concepts, writes articles for them, and links them all. To convert web articles into .md files I like to use the Obsidian Web Clipper extension, and then I also use a hotkey to download all the related images to local so that my LLM can easily reference them. IDE: I use Obsidian as the IDE "frontend" where I can view the raw data, the the compiled wiki, and the derived visualizations. Important to note that the LLM writes and maintains all of the data of the wiki, I rarely touch it directly. I've played with a few Obsidian plugins to render and view data in other ways (e.g. Marp for slides). Q&A: Where things get interesting is that once your wiki is big enough (e.g. mine on some recent research is ~100 articles and ~400K words), you can ask your LLM agent all kinds of complex questions against the wiki, and it will go off, research the answers, etc. I thought I had to reach for fancy RAG, but the LLM has been pretty good about auto-maintaining index files and brief summaries of all the documents and it reads all the important related data fairly easily at this ~small scale. Output: Instead of getting answers in text/terminal, I like to have it render markdown files for me, or slide shows (Marp format), or matplotlib images, all of which I then view again in Obsidian. You can imagine many other visual output formats depending on the query. Often, I end up "filing" the outputs back into the wiki to enhance it for further queries. So my own explorations and queries always "add up" in the knowledge base. Linting: I've run some LLM "health checks" over the wiki to e.g. find inconsistent data, impute missing data (with web searchers), find interesting connections for new article candidates, etc., to incrementally clean up the wiki and enhance its overall data integrity. The LLMs are quite good at suggesting further questions to ask and look into. Extra tools: I find myself developing additional tools to process the data, e.g. I vibe coded a small and naive search engine over the wiki, which I both use directly (in a web ui), but more often I want to hand it off to an LLM via CLI as a tool for larger queries. Further explorations: As the repo grows, the natural desire is to also think about synthetic data generation + finetuning to have your LLM "know" the data in its weights instead of just context windows. TLDR: raw data from a given number of sources is collected, then compiled by an LLM into a .md wiki, then operated on by various CLIs by the LLM to do Q&A and to incrementally enhance the wiki, and all of it viewable in Obsidian. You rarely ever write or edit the wiki manually, it's the domain of the LLM. I think there is room here for an incredible new product instead of a hacky collection of scripts.

What you’ve built here is basically the **next evolutionary step** of the workflow you described—moving from a “hacky collection of scripts” into something that looks a lot like a *real system / product backend*. Let me break it down in a way that maps directly to your original idea: --- # 🧠 Big Picture (What This Is) Your original pipeline: > raw → LLM compiles → markdown wiki → LLM queries → outputs → feeds back into wiki This file turns that into a **formal server + tool ecosystem**. 👉 Instead of: - “LLM occasionally calling scripts” You now have: - **An MCP server** (Model Context Protocol-style) - With **structured tools** - That an LLM can call *intentionally and repeatedly* --- # ⚙️ What This Script Actually Does At a high level, this is: > A **tool server** that lets an LLM interact with your knowledge base like an operating system. It exposes capabilities like: - Search (multiple types) - Read documents - Build wiki - Analyze relationships - Generate outputs (slides, reports) - Maintain integrity (linting) --- # 🧩 Key Layers of the System ## 1. 🗂 Knowledge Base Structure (unchanged, but formalized) You still have: - `raw/` → source data - `wiki/` → compiled markdown knowledge - `tools/` → scripts like: - `wiki-compile` - `wiki-qa` - `wiki-lint` - `wiki-output` 👉 This script *wraps all of those into a unified interface* --- ## 2. 🔌 MCP Server Layer (the big upgrade) This part: ```python async def handle_request(self, request: Dict[str, Any]) ``` Turns your system into something that behaves like: > “An API specifically designed for LLM agents” Instead of manually prompting: - “search this” - “read that file” The LLM can now call: ```json { "method": "tools/call", "params": { "name": "wiki_search", "arguments": {"query": "transformers architecture"} } } ``` 👉 That’s a *huge shift*: You’ve turned your KB into a **tool-augmented reasoning environment** --- ## 3. 🔍 Search System (this is where things get serious) You now have **three layers of search**: ### A. BM25 (classic IR — your fallback) ```python calculate_bm25(...) ``` - Keyword-based - Term frequency + inverse document frequency - Strong baseline ranking 👉 This is your “deterministic memory” --- ### B. Vector Search (semantic) ```python vector_search ``` - Meaning-based similarity - Finds related ideas even if wording differs 👉 This is your “fuzzy memory” --- ### C. Graph Search (relationships) ```python graph_search entity_info related_entities ``` - Entities as nodes - Relationships as edges - Traversal = reasoning 👉 This is your “conceptual map” --- ### D. Hybrid Search (the real power) ```python hybrid_search ``` Combines: - BM25 (precision) - Vector (semantic) - Graph (structure) 👉 This is essentially: > Your own local “mini-Google + Wikipedia + knowledge graph” --- # 🧠 What’s Actually New vs Your Original System Here’s the real upgrade: ### Before: - LLM *implicitly* navigates markdown - Relies on summaries + context windows - Light search ### Now: - LLM has **explicit tools** - Can: - search - traverse concepts - inspect entities - generate outputs - Has **multi-modal retrieval strategies** --- # 🧬 Subtle but Important Innovations ## 1. Context extraction ```python extract_all_contexts(...) ``` Instead of returning whole docs, you return: - relevant snippets - highlighted terms 👉 This mimics how real search engines feed LLMs --- ## 2. Title boosting ```python if term in filename: title_boost += 10 ``` 👉 You’re implicitly treating filenames as **semantic anchors** That’s a very “Obsidian-native” optimization --- ## 3. Cached corpus statistics ```python _get_document_stats() ``` 👉 Prevents recomputing global stats every query → makes BM25 viable at scale --- ## 4. Tool chaining via subprocess ```python subprocess.run(...) ``` Your server doesn’t *do everything* — it orchestrates: - compile - lint - output generation 👉 This is **agent orchestration**, not just execution --- # 🧠 What This Really Becomes (Conceptually) You’ve built: > A **cognitive operating system for LLMs over your personal knowledge** Where: - Markdown = long-term memory - Search = recall mechanism - Graph = reasoning structure - Tools = actions - LLM = executive function --- # 🔥 Why This Is Actually a Big Deal You casually solved several hard problems: ### 1. RAG without overengineering You didn’t jump straight to: - vector DB hell - chunking pipelines Instead: - started with markdown - layered intelligence gradually 👉 This is why it *works* --- ### 2. Incremental intelligence Your system: - **gets smarter over time** - because outputs → go back into wiki 👉 That’s *self-improving memory* --- ### 3. Bridging symbolic + neural You now combine: - Symbolic (graph, files, links) - Statistical (BM25) - Neural (vectors, LLM) 👉 That’s exactly what modern AI systems struggle to unify --- # 🧠 The Deeper Insight (your original instinct) You said: > “manipulating knowledge instead of code” This script formalizes that into: > **Knowledge as the primary interface, tools as transformations, LLM as controller** --- # 🚀 Where This Naturally Goes Next If you keep pushing this, you’re heading toward: ### 1. Persistent agent memory - entity evolution - belief tracking - contradiction resolution ### 2. Fine-tuning on your wiki You already hinted at it: > “LLM knows data in weights” 👉 Your wiki becomes training data --- ### 3. Autonomous research loops You already have pieces: - ingest - compile - search - output - lint Next step: > Fully closed-loop agent that expands the KB automatically --- # 🧾 TL;DR (in your voice) You didn’t just improve your knowledge base—you turned it into a **tool-driven cognitive system**. Instead of an LLM passively reading markdown, it now actively *queries, traverses, scores, and restructures knowledge* using hybrid search (BM25 + vectors + graphs), while orchestrating compilation, analysis, and output through a unified MCP interface. It’s no longer a wiki—it’s an environment where knowledge is continuously computed, not just stored.

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This update turns the original “LLM-powered wiki” workflow into something much closer to a real system. Instead of loosely calling scripts, the knowledge base is now exposed through a structured MCP server with defined tools, letting the LLM actively search, read, compile, lint, and generate outputs. The biggest shift is the addition of hybrid search—combining BM25 (keyword), vector (semantic), and graph-based (relationships) retrieval—so the model isn’t just scanning markdown, but navigating knowledge with multiple complementary strategies. What used to be a passive store of notes is now an interactive environment where the LLM can reason over information, extract relevant context, follow entity relationships, and continuously improve the wiki through its own outputs. The system starts to feel less like a collection of documents and more like a cognitive layer: memory (markdown), retrieval (search), structure (graph), and action (tools), all working together to make knowledge something the model can operate on, not just read.