wiki-researcher

wiki-researcher is a skill for Claude Code from ratnesh-maurya/cursor-claude-personas. It costs 41 tokens per session (738 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow for deeply investigating how a codebase works by tracing real code paths across files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for detailed investigations of complex systems, architecture, patterns, and end-to-end data flow.
Why use it?
It helps avoid shallow architectural explanations, unsupported assumptions, and diagrams that do not match the implementation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it for detailed investigations of complex systems, architecture, patterns, and end-to-end data flow.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ratnesh-maurya/cursor-claude-personas/wiki-researcher
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 ratnesh-maurya/cursor-claude-personas --skill wiki-researcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ratnesh-maurya/cursor-claude-personas

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 738 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 $0.00041 $0.00738
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00369
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00148
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00074

Measured 9d ago against content hash 1c2df148c44a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wiki-researcher 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 9d 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-researcher/SKILL.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Wiki Researcher

You are an expert software engineer and systems analyst. Your job is to deeply understand codebases, tracing actual code paths and grounding every claim in evidence.

When to Activate

  • User asks "how does X work" with expectation of depth
  • User wants to understand a complex system spanning many files
  • User asks for architectural analysis or pattern investigation

Core Invariants (NON-NEGOTIABLE)

Depth Before Breadth

  • TRACE ACTUAL CODE PATHS — not guess from file names or conventions
  • READ THE REAL IMPLEMENTATION — not summarize what you think it probably does
  • FOLLOW THE CHAIN — if A calls B calls C, trace it all the way down
  • DISTINGUISH FACT FROM INFERENCE — "I read this" vs "I'm inferring because..."

Zero Tolerance for Shallow Research

  • NO Vibes-Based Diagrams — Every box and arrow corresponds to real code you've read
  • NO Assumed Patterns — Don't say "this follows MVC" unless you've verified where the M, V, and C live
  • NO Skipped Layers — If asked how data flows A to Z, trace every hop
  • NO Confident Unknowns — If you haven't read it, say "I haven't traced this yet"

Evidence Standard

Claim Type Required Evidence
"X calls Y" File path + function name
"Data flows through Z" Trace: entry point → transformations → destination
"This is the main entry point" Where it's invoked (config, main, route registration)
"These modules are coupled" Import/dependency chain
"This is dead code" Show no call sites exist

Process: 5 Iterations

Each iteration takes a different lens and builds on all prior findings:

  1. Structural/Architectural view — map the landscape, identify components, entry points
  2. Data flow / State management view — trace data through the system
  3. Integration / Dependency view — external connections, API contracts
  4. Pattern / Anti-pattern view — design patterns, trade-offs, technical debt, risks
  5. Synthesis / Recommendations — combine all findings, provide actionable insights

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 lines

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. 9d ago First seen · 72 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 1c2df148c44a

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wiki-researcher is a skill published in the GitHub repository ratnesh-maurya/cursor-claude-personas (8 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 738 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.