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NAME

kb-topics — the index of help topics

SYNOPSIS

kb help topics

DESCRIPTION

Every topic below has its own manual page, reachable as “kb help TOPIC” or “kb TOPIC -help”, and installed as a man page by make install.

project
manage projects
observation
manage observations
concept
manage concepts
link
link projects and observations to concepts
unlink
remove a link between a project or observation and a concept, or an observation and a source
source
manage cited sources and retraction checking
search
full-text search across projects, observations, concepts and records. summary and format share this page
merge
reconcile two knowledge.db files that drifted independently
check-db
compare the database with its JSONL dump by content and recommend import, export or both
stats
row, link and check counts, and a line per project
story
a writing project’s story timeline, continuity report and who knows what
export
write a portable JSON-L snapshot. import shares this page
import
read a JSON-L snapshot back
ingest
index a tree of decision records into the knowledge base
record
read and maintain decision records
document
ingest, draft, review and tag narrative documents at graduated abstraction levels
index
generate a decisions/index.md from a directory of records
init
create a new, empty workspace
completion
write or install a shell completion script for bash or PowerShell
verbs
print the verb table, as text or JSON

NOTES

The conventional spelling for this page is “help index”. It is “help topics” here because index is itself a verb, so “kb help index” is that verb’s manual page and cannot also be the topic list.