{"slug": "show-hn-almanac-a-self-updating-wiki-from-your-files", "title": "Show HN: Almanac – A self-updating wiki from your files", "summary": "Almanac, a self-updating wiki tool that organizes uploaded files and automatically restructures content, was launched on Hacker News. The tool features a CLI for AI agent interaction, a Python SDK, and an MCP, aiming to provide agents with better context than traditional RAG systems. An open-source version for code, CodeAlmanac, is also available.", "body_md": "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.\n\nI wanted something where:\n\n1. I could use it for myself or I could share it with my teammates.\n\n2. I could upload sources, and the wiki gets created and updated automatically.\n\n3. It is extremely agent-native, because my primary mechanism of interaction would be through my CC or Codex.\n\nSo 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.\n\nThe 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.\n\nI 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.\n\nThe project is still early, and I would love any feedback or feature requests that you have.\n\nBtw we've also made an open-source version of Almanac for code called CodeAlmanac([https://github.com/AlmanacCode/codealmanac](https://github.com/AlmanacCode/codealmanac))\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48885134](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48885134)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-almanac-a-self-updating-wiki-from-your-files", "canonical_source": "https://usealmanac.com", "published_at": "2026-07-12 21:45:16+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-12 22:05:13.265138+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "developer-tools", "ai-agents"], "entities": ["Almanac", "CodeAlmanac", "Vercel"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-almanac-a-self-updating-wiki-from-your-files", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-almanac-a-self-updating-wiki-from-your-files.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-almanac-a-self-updating-wiki-from-your-files.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-almanac-a-self-updating-wiki-from-your-files.jsonld"}}