wikipedia

wikipedia is a skill for Claude Code from 0xmariowu/Autosearch. It costs 16 tokens per session (318 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research skill that searches the English Wikipedia encyclopedia through its API. Wikipedia provides broad background, definitions, factual summaries, and historical context across many subjects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find basic facts and context about science, history, culture, and other general-knowledge topics. It returns search-result snippets rather than full article text.
Why use it?
It gives an AI assistant a source for general explanations before looking for more specialised information.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: when-to-use in frontmatter.

Part of the autosearch plugin — 55 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to find basic facts and context about science, history, culture, and other general-knowledge topics. It returns search-result snippets rather than full article text.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/0xmariowu/autosearch/wikipedia
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.

Any agent
npx skills add 0xmariowu/Autosearch --skill wikipedia
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/0xmariowu/Autosearch

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install autosearch, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 55 skills, 1 agent.

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.

agentmods badge for wikipedia

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/0xmariowu/autosearch/wikipedia/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/0xmariowu/autosearch/wikipedia)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/0xmariowu/autosearch/wikipedia"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/0xmariowu/autosearch/wikipedia/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for wikipedia

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/0xmariowu/autosearch/wikipedia"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/0xmariowu/autosearch/wikipedia.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 318 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00016 $0.00318
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00159
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00064
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00032

Measured 11d ago against content hash 8724e8728f72, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wikipedia 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (methods/api_search.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

autosearch/skills/channels/wikipedia/SKILL.md · 41 lines

What it actually says

Overview

Wikipedia provides authoritative encyclopedia-style background, definitions, factual overviews, and historical context through the English Wikipedia Action API. It is useful when the query needs broad, neutral summary coverage across science, history, culture, and general-knowledge topics before drilling into more specialized sources.

Known Quirks

  • English Wikipedia only in v1; Chinese Wikipedia support is a future follow-up.
  • Search results only expose list-API snippets, not full article bodies.
  • Requests must include a policy-compliant User-Agent with contact information per Wikimedia requirements.

Quality Bar

  • Evidence items have non-empty title and url.
  • No crash on empty or malformed API response.
  • Source channel field matches the channel name.
Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 11d ago First seen · 41 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 8724e8728f72

Subscribe to this mod's changes

wikipedia is a skill published in the GitHub repository 0xmariowu/Autosearch (44 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 318 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-08-30.

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