wikipedia-discovery

wikipedia-discovery is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hugobowne/show-us-your-agent-skills. It costs 81 tokens per session (1,057 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for finding and opening Wikipedia articles from a topic or phrase in a split-pane extension. It also covers Wikimedia's search and article APIs, which are services for retrieving Wikipedia content.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search Wikipedia, recommend useful article titles, handle paged API results, or open a specific article section in the extension.
Why use it?
It helps route people to relevant articles and sections while keeping article navigation separate from the user-facing conversation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to search Wikipedia, recommend useful article titles, handle paged API results, or open a specific article section in the extension.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hugobowne/show-us-your-agent-skills/wikipedia-discovery
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 hugobowne/show-us-your-agent-skills --skill wikipedia-discovery
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hugobowne/show-us-your-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,057 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00081 $0.01057
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00528
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00211
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00106

Measured 13d ago against content hash 9e1bd267cebb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wikipedia-discovery 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 13d 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.

skills/wikipedia-discovery/SKILL.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Wikipedia discovery

Use the current wiki hostname (e.g. en.wikipedia.org) for all API requests unless you intentionally switch language wiki.

Helping someone learn (user-facing)

When the user wants to learn about something, steer them toward concrete articles (and sections by heading when helpful). In natural language:

  • Name articles by title and briefly say why each is relevant to their question.
  • Do not paste full URLs, do not use markdown links, and do not bullet raw links—readers use url_change on their own; your job in chat is titles + relevance only.

Behind the scenes, when it is time to open the mirror, use message_parent with a full Wikipedia url (optional # section / anchor per below); that string is not for display in the user-visible reply.

I have a phrase / topic — find articles

Search the index, return ranked titles/snippets, optionally narrow namespaces. Prefer REST search for simple JSON cards; use Action API list=search when you need Cirrus options, generators, or wikitext-era fields. Paging: Action list= modules return continue — merge those params on the next request until absent. REST search may use limit / offset where supported. Details: wikipedia-discovery/references/topic-search.md.

I’m on (or chose) this article — what’s next?

Use summary for a short lead, links / backlinks to move outward in the graph, extracts for longer previews, categories / random when exploration fits. Same continue discipline for any prop/list that paginates. Details: wikipedia-discovery/references/article-next-steps.md.

Changing the Wikipedia URL (message_parent / url_change)

When the mirrored page should change, call message_parent with:

{"type": "url_change", "url": "<full https URL on wikipedia.org, optional #section-or-id>"}

url must stay on Wikipedia (*.wikipedia.org / wikipedia.org). Query APIs first when you only need metadata; send url_change when the left pane should actually load that resource.

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 13d ago First seen · 62 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 9e1bd267cebb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

wikipedia-discovery is a skill published in the GitHub repository hugobowne/show-us-your-agent-skills (67 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 1,057 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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