TheKnowledge: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/wiki-research/SKILL.md

wiki-research is a skill for Claude Code from badwally/TheKnowledge. It costs 21 tokens per session (503 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured research tool that investigates a question across multiple sources and saves the result as a wiki synthesis page.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check existing wiki coverage, review a proposed source plan, run the research, and file the resulting synthesis.
Why use it?
It organizes source searching and helps turn scattered findings into a stored research summary.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is badwally/TheKnowledge's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on TheKnowledge itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything TheKnowledge configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to badwally/TheKnowledge. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/badwally/TheKnowledge/main/.claude/skills/wiki-research/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/badwally/TheKnowledge

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 503 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 $0.00021 $0.00503
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00201
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00101
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00050

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 92484e93746d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wiki-research 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 2mo 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.

.claude/skills/wiki-research/SKILL.md · 56 lines

What it actually says

What This Does

Takes a research question, fans out across search adapters, filters candidates, and files a synthesis page via the gateway. Uses wiki research + wiki query.

Reference conventions: WIKI.md § 5 (query workflow), § 7 (synthesis pages).

Usage

/wiki-research "How does GLP-1 affect dopamine reward circuits?"
/wiki-research "What are the risks of AI agents in clinical settings?" --domain edge-ai-agentic

Execution Steps

  1. Check existing coverage: Run wiki search "<key terms>" and scan index.md for related synthesis pages. If an answer already exists, link to it and stop unless the user wants a fresh synthesis.

  2. Scoped research: Run:

    .venv/bin/wiki research "<question>" [--domain <slug>] --review
    

    This fans out search, filters candidates, and builds a query plan.

  3. Review plan: The --review flag surfaces the proposed source set. Confirm or adjust before executing.

  4. Execute:

    .venv/bin/wiki research "<question>" --execute <plan-id>
    

    Or use the shorthand: .venv/bin/wiki query "<question>" [--domain <slug>]

  5. Inspect output: The gateway writes a draft synthesis page to wiki/synthesis/<slug>.md. Read it and verify:

    • synthesizes: frontmatter lists source IDs
    • ## Sources cited section has [[sources/...]] links
    • Key claims are citation-grounded
  6. Finalize: If citations are complete, run wiki finalize on the page. Otherwise leave as draft and note the gap.

Key constraints

  • wiki query writes a wiki page — it is a write op. Plan before running (WIKI.md § 9).
  • Do not call NotebookLM tools directly. Route through wiki nlm-* commands (WIKI.md § 9).
  • Synthesis pages require synthesizes: frontmatter per ONT-11; validator warns if absent.
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. 2mo ago First seen · 56 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 92484e93746d

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wiki-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository badwally/TheKnowledge (23 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 503 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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