wikipedia-mcp-server

wikipedia-mcp-server is an MCP server for Claude Code from cyanheads/wikipedia-mcp-server. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A locally running MCP server for searching Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, and reading its pages. It can return summaries or full text, focus on sections, find nearby pages, and list available languages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Searching Wikipedia, reading page summaries or full text, targeting sections, finding related nearby pages, and checking language versions.
Why use it?
It gives an AI client a direct way to look up and read Wikipedia content without manually opening the website.

MCP server for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the wikipedia-mcp-server plugin — 32 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Searching Wikipedia, reading page summaries or full text, targeting sections, finding related nearby pages, and checking language versions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add mcp/cyanheads/wikipedia-mcp-server/wikipedia-mcp-server
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cyanheads/wikipedia-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install wikipedia-mcp-server, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 skills, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

wikipedia-mcp-server scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

server.json · 12 lines

What it actually says

{
  "wikipedia-mcp-server": {
    "command": "npx",
    "args": [
      "-y",
      "@cyanheads/wikipedia-mcp-server"
    ],
    "env": {
      "MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "info"
    }
  }
}
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 12 lines scan A d79a9917f54c

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wikipedia-mcp-server is an MCP server published in the GitHub repository cyanheads/wikipedia-mcp-server (2 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. Its token cost is not measured: an MCP server costs its tool schemas, not its config file. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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