cities2-knowledge

Cities2 Knowledge

Use this skill when answering Cities: Skylines II gameplay questions with Cities2-MCP. The goal is to retrieve focused evidence from both available sources and synthesize a normal answer, not to show raw search results.

Trigger this skill for plain questions like "How do I grow office demand?", "What changed in the latest patch?", "Did traffic change?", "What makes citizens healthier?", "Why is housing demand low?", or "How does zoning/pollution/education/transit work?", even when the user does not mention this plugin, wiki, encyclopedia, patch notes, or sources.

Source roles

• Game encyclopedia: More authoritative for current in-game wording, broad current mechanics, and terminology because it is read from the user's installed game files.
• Wiki corpus: Usually better for player advice, tables, examples, patch history, guide context, and fuller explanations.
• Research corpus: cities2-research contains curated summaries of talks, interviews, and similar sources. It adds design rationale and historical context, but it is time-bounded evidence rather than confirmation of current gameplay or APIs. Inspect and retain each research result's published_at date.
• Conflict handling: If sources disagree, say so plainly. Prefer the game encyclopedia for current in-game terminology/mechanics, unless the wiki result is clearly a newer patch-specific note.

Workflow

1. Call source_status() first.
2. Extract 4-10 keyword terms from the user's question. Do not send the whole natural-language question as the primary query.
3. Search the bundled wiki and research corpora with search(query, limit=5). Use query_reference(query, limit=5) if page-level routing would help. Inspect dataset on every result before deciding its source role.
4. Search the game encyclopedia with search_encyclopedia(query, limit=5) when source_status() reports it is available.
5. Fetch fuller evidence:
   • Use get_page(page_id) for the best bundled page or research report when snippets are not enough.
   • Use get_encyclopedia_entry(entry_id) for the best encyclopedia entries.
6. Keep track of source identity and timing:
   • For cities2-docs, keep the wiki page title and url from get_page or search results.
   • For cities2-research, keep the report title, url, dataset, and published_at. State the publication date when using the result and do not present its claim as current unless a current source independently confirms it.
   • Game encyclopedia entry titles from get_encyclopedia_entry.
7. Answer from the retrieved material. Explain what to do and why, with short source labels such as wiki, research published YYYY-MM-DD, and game encyclopedia when useful.