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index-refresh

Helps your agent update documentation indexes. It's useful for ensuring wiki navigation and organization are always correct.

What it does

This tool organizes and updates an index (a list of pages) for a note-taking system called a Wiki. It ensures the list is always correct, reflecting existing pages and removing deleted ones.

When to use it

  • ✓When the Wiki's page list is outdated.
  • ✓After deleting or adding important new pages.
  • ✓To ensure navigation within the Wiki is easy and fast.

Example of what to ask your AI

“Update the Wiki index so it shows all existing pages and removes those that have been deleted.”

Want more? Open the sections below.

How to use

The easiest way: copy the message below and paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI. It reads the skill and follows the instructions.

Skill link

https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/blob/master/packages/plugins/plugin-llm-wiki/skills/index-refresh/SKILL.md

Ready-to-paste message

Use this skill to help me: https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/blob/master/packages/plugins/plugin-llm-wiki/skills/index-refresh/SKILL.md Read the SKILL.md file at that link and follow its instructions for my task.
How it works

The tool compares the current page list with what actually exists in the Wiki. It adds new pages to the list and removes those that no longer exist, logging everything in the history.

Installation

Easiest way: copy the skill link and paste it into Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor asking it to follow the instructions.

In the terminal (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor), in your project folder:

npx skills add paperclipai/paperclip --skill index-refresh

Or download just the file:

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/paperclipai/paperclip/master/packages/plugins/plugin-llm-wiki/skills/index-refresh/SKILL.md -o SKILL.md
Technical content (original SKILL.md)

Original text by the author, straight from GitHub.

Index Refresh

Keep wiki/index.md accurate and scannable. The index is the maintainer's first stop for navigation — its quality determines how cheap every subsequent operation becomes.

Inputs

  • An operation issue with operationType: "index" (or the index-refresh routine title).
  • The operation issue's target wikiId, spaceSlug, and space root. Refresh only that space unless the issue explicitly says this is a multi-space sweep.

Workflow

  1. Read the target space's wiki/index.md as it currently stands.
  2. Walk the target space's wiki/. wiki/projects/<slug>/standup.md entries are current-state companions for durable wiki/projects/<slug>/index.md pages; index them only as links attached to the matching project entry. Walk wiki/ by category (sources/, projects/, entities/, concepts/, synthesis/, plus any custom subdirectories the wiki schema added).
  3. Read the target space's last ~50 entries of wiki/log.md to spot pages that were created or substantially changed but never made it to the index.
  4. Per category, produce sorted entries of the form:
    - [[<path>]] — <one-line summary>
    
    The summary is one factual sentence pulled from the page's first paragraph or its title. No status, no datestamps in the index — those belong in the page itself or in the log.
  5. Drop entries whose page no longer exists. Note the deletion in the log:
    ## [YYYY-MM-DD] index-refresh | reconciled
    - removed: [[wiki/old-page]] (page deleted)
    - added: [[wiki/new-page]] — <summary>
    
  6. Add entries for pages that exist on disk but were missing from the index. Skip wiki/log.md and wiki/index.md themselves. For standalone wiki/projects/<slug>/standup.md without a matching durable project page, add it under Projects and flag it for later durable-page distillation.
  7. Write project entries editorially. The Projects section should group work by the project's concept and purpose, not by issue ids, dates, statuses, UUIDs, or source metadata. Link task identifiers only as supporting evidence.
  8. Preserve custom categories. If the wiki has added e.g. wiki/papers/ or wiki/runbooks/, keep its index section. Do not collapse to the default five categories.
  9. Append a log entry with counts:
    ## [YYYY-MM-DD] index-refresh | added=N removed=M
    - operation issue: <issue identifier>
    
    If the index was already accurate, the log entry says added=0 removed=0 — still write it so future audits can see the run happened.

What this skill does NOT do

  • Does not change page content.
  • Does not resolve contradictions, fix broken links, or fill concept gaps. Those go to the next wiki-lint run.
  • Does not write summaries that are not already supported by the page itself. If a page lacks a clear first paragraph to summarise, flag it for wiki-lint.

Voice

  • Index entries are one factual line per page, present tense.
  • No emojis, no statuses, no dates in wiki/index.md. Dates live in the log.

Verification

Before closing the operation issue:

  • wiki/index.md matches the actual contents of wiki/ — no missing pages, no dangling entries.
  • Project entries include current wiki/projects/<slug>/standup.md links when standups exist.
  • Each index line has the form - [[path]] — <summary>.
  • Custom category sections are preserved.
  • wiki/log.md has the index-refresh entry with counts (even if the counts are zero).
  • No page bodies were modified. No file under raw/ was modified.

Tools

wiki_search, wiki_read_page, wiki_write_page (for wiki/index.md and wiki/log.md only). Always include the operation issue's wikiId and spaceSlug.

FAQ

Does the tool change the content of my notes?

No, it only organizes the page list (the index) and does not alter the content of your notes.

What happens if a page is deleted?

The tool removes the deleted page from the index and logs this action in the history.

Does the tool create summaries for pages?

It uses a short summary from the page itself or its title for the index. If a page lacks a clear summary, it might ask another tool for help.

Details

Original description by the author

Use when an LLM Wiki operation issue requests an index refresh. Rebuild `wiki/index.md` from the actual wiki tree, reconcile missing/deleted entries, and log counts without editing page bodies.

repo: paperclipai/paperclip

Popularity

GitHub stars
103k
Ranking position
#369
License
MIT
Updated
10/16/2026

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