Wiki Stage Commit — Staged Write Promotion

You are reviewing LLM-written pages that are waiting in _staging/ for human approval before they land in the live wiki. This skill is only useful when WIKI_STAGED_WRITES=true in the vault config.

Before You Start

1. Resolve config — follow the Config Resolution Protocol in llm-wiki/SKILL.md. This gives OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH and WIKI_STAGED_WRITES.
2. If WIKI_STAGED_WRITES is not set or is false, tell the user: "Staged writes mode is not enabled. Set WIKI_STAGED_WRITES=true in your .env to use this feature." Then stop.
3. Read the _staging/ directory inventory.

Invocation Forms

/wiki-stage-commit               # interactive review: show each file and ask accept/reject
/wiki-stage-commit --all         # accept all staged files without per-file review
/wiki-stage-commit --reject-all  # reject all staged files (move to _raw/ for manual editing)
/wiki-stage-commit --list        # list staged files with summary, no changes

Step 1: Inventory Staged Files

Glob $OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH/_staging/*/.md — these are the pending pages.

Also glob $OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH/_staging/*/.patch.md — these are pending updates to existing pages (diff-style files showing proposed additions and deletions).

Report the inventory:

Staged files: 4 new pages, 2 updates

New pages:
  _staging/concepts/attention-mechanism.md        (ingested 2 days ago)
  _staging/entities/andrej-karpathy.md            (ingested 2 days ago)
  _staging/skills/fine-tuning-llms.md             (ingested yesterday)
  _staging/references/attention-is-all-you-need.md (ingested 3 hours ago)

Updates (patch files):
  _staging/concepts/transformer-architecture.patch.md  (target: concepts/transformer-architecture.md)
  _staging/skills/prompt-engineering.patch.md          (target: skills/prompt-engineering.md)

If _staging/ is empty, report: "Nothing staged. All writes have been committed or no staged writes have been produced yet."

Step 2: Per-File Review (interactive mode)

For each staged file (new pages first, then updates):

For new pages:

Display a summary:

--- New page: concepts/attention-mechanism.md ---
Title:    Attention Mechanism
Tags:     #ml #architecture
Summary:  Core building block of transformers — computes weighted sum of values based on query-key similarity.
Tier:     supporting
Confidence: 0.72
Sources:  papers/attention.pdf

[Preview first 20 lines of body]
...

Accept [a], Reject [r], Skip [s], Preview full [p]?

For patch files:

Display a structured diff:

--- Update: concepts/transformer-architecture.md ---
Source: _staging/concepts/transformer-architecture.patch.md

Proposed additions (+):
+ Transformers outperform RNNs on tasks requiring long-range dependencies. ^[inferred]
+ New source: papers/survey-2026.pdf

Proposed deletions (-):
- The attention mechanism was first described in [Bahdanau 2015].  (to be replaced by updated claim)

⚠️  Conflict check: target page was modified 3 days after staging. Review carefully.

Accept [a], Reject [r], Skip [s], Preview full diff [p]?

If --all flag is set, skip prompting and accept every file. If --reject-all flag is set, skip prompting and reject every file. If --list flag is set, stop after printing the inventory (Step 1).

Step 3: Apply Decisions

Accepting a new page

1. Move _staging/<category>/page.md → <category>/page.md (the final location)
2. Update index.md with the new page entry
3. Remove the staged file

Accepting a patch/update

1. Read the current page at the target path
2. Apply the proposed additions and deletions (merge, don't just overwrite)
3. Update the updated frontmatter timestamp
4. Update index.md if the summary changed
5. Remove the staged patch file

Rejecting a file

Move it to $OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH/_raw/ for manual editing:

• _staging/concepts/page.md → _raw/rejected-concepts-page.md
• _staging/concepts/page.patch.md → _raw/rejected-patch-concepts-page.md
• Prefix with rejected- so the user can identify it

Conflict detection on patch accept

Before applying a patch, check whether the target page's updated frontmatter is newer than the patch file's own updated field:

• If the target was modified AFTER the patch was staged, warn: ⚠️ Conflict: target was updated since this patch was staged. Applying may lose recent changes.
• Give the user a chance to abort: Apply anyway [y], Skip [s], Reject [r]?

Step 4: Update Tracking Files

After processing all staged files:

1. hot.md — update the Recent Activity section: "Committed N staged pages; rejected M."
2. log.md — append:

   - [TIMESTAMP] STAGE_COMMIT accepted=N rejected=M skipped=K

Step 5: Report

Stage commit complete.

✅  Accepted (N):
  concepts/attention-mechanism.md     → now live
  entities/andrej-karpathy.md         → now live
  concepts/transformer-architecture.md → updated (patch applied)

❌  Rejected (M):
  skills/fine-tuning-llms.md          → moved to _raw/rejected-skills-fine-tuning-llms.md

⏭️  Skipped (K):
  references/attention-is-all-you-need.md → still in _staging/

Staging queue: K files remaining

Notes

• Staged files use the same page template as live pages — they are ready to land, just awaiting approval
• Patch files use a human-readable diff format: lines starting with + are additions, lines starting with - are deletions
• index.md and log.md are always updated immediately on ingest (they are low-risk tracking files) — only category pages go through staging
• The _staging/ directory is not tracked by Obsidian's graph view — pages only appear in the wiki after promotion