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title: "Lorebarn: a team wiki for specs, runbooks and the company handbook"
author: "@chris"
author_url: https://elements.dev/users/chris
published: 2026-09-30T19:27:40.042Z
url: https://elements.dev/demos/n9oxc2ox/lorebarn-a-team-wiki-for-specs-runbooks-and-the-company
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# Lorebarn: a team wiki for specs, runbooks and the company handbook

by [@chris](https://elements.dev/users/chris) · 2026-09-30

## Description

Nested pages in markdown with live preview, version diffs and restore, presence on every page, and full-text search.

Lorebarn needed a page tree that updates for everyone, a version kept on every save, presence on each page, full text search and email invites. Each of those is a part of Elements, so the agent spent its 17 minutes on the wiki itself.

**What Elements gave the app**

- **Live pages and tree.** Pages are a LiveTable split by space, so a save, a new page or a move in the tree shows up in every open tree, page and home screen at once.
- **A version on every save.** Each edit is checked against the latest version, keeps a snapshot in the same transaction, and tells a late editor who saved first. History restores a version through the same live table, so every open copy updates.
- **Presence.** A channel tracks who is on each page and who is editing, and every open copy of the page shows the same people as they arrive, start typing and leave.
- **Full text search.** Search ranks matches across every page and highlights them, from a weighted search column the migration defines.
- **Invites and roles.** Admins invite members by email and change roles with `@rpc` calls that check for an admin first.
- **Data from SQL files.** Migrations define the wiki and seed one admin, three members, three spaces with 23 nested pages, 64 saved versions and a pending invite.

**What the project server gave the agent**

The project server runs alongside the agent and answers as soon as a file is saved: it type-checks the templates, TypeScript and SQL, applies migrations and reruns the tests, so every question came back right away and the agent kept building.

**What shipped**

The app type-checks with zero errors and all 28 tests pass. Every page works on desktop and phone.