Query answers a question against the bundle. Because the synthesis was front-loaded at ingest time, query is mostly navigation and assembly rather than rediscovery — the key contrast with RAG.

Flow

1. Navigate via progressive disclosure: read the root index first, then the relevant section index, to locate candidate concepts. At larger scale, add a search tool such as qmd.
2. Read relevant concepts, following cross-links to gather the pieces. Good answers often span several concepts across sections — this is where the bundle's maintained cross-references pay off.
3. Synthesize a direct answer, citing the specific concepts used, and surface non-obvious connections.
4. File valuable answers back. This is the compounding move: a comparison, a multi-source analysis, a discovered pattern, or a strategic insight should be written as a new concept — with frontmatter, cross-links, updated overview/index, and a log entry — rather than left to evaporate in chat history. A simple factual lookup does not need to become a page.

Answer forms

An answer can take whatever form fits the question — prose, a comparison table, a slide deck, a chart. The form is a delivery detail; what matters for compounding is whether the underlying synthesis gets filed back into the bundle.

Citations

1. Karpathy — LLM Wiki gist
2. personal work wiki