The Provenance-First Wiki: Why the LLM Wiki Pattern Breaks Past a Thousand Files, and the Five Invariants That Fix It

A hardened successor to the LLM Wiki pattern. Identifies three structural flaws in LLM-maintained knowledge bases (the self-citation loop, consistency auditing mistaken for truth auditing, and generated citations), grounds each in published quantitative evidence, and specifies five enforceable invariants built on a single mechanism: a quote is a pointer, not a copy. Includes a two-day falsification protocol and the complete decision record behind the design.