Read and Edit the Wiki in Your Browser

The browser view is how you read and edit a local wiki without the Nimbalyst app. Ask your agent to "open the wiki in my browser," or run nim wiki serve, and a tab opens with the page tree and the page editor. Edits save straight to the markdown files in your repo, and what your agents write shows up live.

Open it from your agent

With the Nimbalyst Wiki plugin in Claude Code or the Codex CLI, ask:

Open the wiki in my browser.

The browser app ships inside the plugin, so there is nothing to install. The plugin's nimbalyst-local server starts the view on your machine and opens a tab.

In the Codex app, Cursor, VS Code, Cowork, and other agents that use the wiki through nim mcp, ask the same thing. The browser app installs with the nim CLI.

Open it with nim wiki serve

nim wiki serve

Option	What it does
--no-open	Prints the URL instead of opening a browser.
--port	Picks the port.

nim comes from npm install -g @nimbalyst/cli and needs Node.js 22 or later. See Wiki Plugin and nim CLI Reference for the rest of its commands.

What you can do there

• Read and edit pages in a rich editor, with the page tree on the left. Edits save straight to the file.
• Browse typed pages and types. Types lists each type, and a type's table shows every item with its fields. A typed page shows its fields at the top. See Pages, Types, and Fields.
• Open drawings, mind maps, spreadsheets, data models, mockups, and canvases in their own editors, and create them from the New page menu.
• Click through interactive HTML pages, such as a product map where each box opens the page it links to. See Interactive HTML pages.
• Search the wiki, and find deleted pages in Trash. Deleting a page moves it to a .trash folder, from where it can be restored.
• See decisions and open questions marked in each page, with who decided, when, and what was passed over.

Live in both directions

The browser view and your agents work on the same files. A page your agent writes or updates appears in the open tab without a reload, and a change you make in the browser is what the next agent reads. Edits you make in your own editor show up too.

Private to your machine

The view listens on your machine only and requires the token in the URL it opens, so other devices on your network cannot reach it. A local wiki needs no account and no server beyond this view on your own machine, and its pages stay in your repo. To share the wiki with teammates, check it into a folder in your repo, or move it to Wiki Teams, where everyone edits the same pages in their browser.