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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
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

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.