wiki-research

wiki-research is a skill for Claude Code from shrimbly/project-wiki. It costs 91 tokens per session (1,022 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided research tool for expanding a project wiki by investigating unanswered questions, thin explanations, outside references, standards, competitors, or untested assumptions. It first presents focused research choices for the user to select.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to deepen a wiki, check assumptions, define unclear terms, study related systems or standards, and fill specific knowledge gaps.
Why use it?
It prevents unfocused research and helps identify which gaps in the wiki matter most. The results are captured so later readers can find the evidence and conclusions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Good fit Use it to deepen a wiki, check assumptions, define unclear terms, study related systems or standards, and fill specific knowledge gaps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shrimbly/project-wiki/wiki-research
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 shrimbly/project-wiki --skill wiki-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shrimbly/project-wiki

Made for: Claude Code.

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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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Your own site
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Per session 91 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,022 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 $0.00091 $0.01022
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00511
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00204
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00102

Measured 9d ago against content hash b38e6ab18389, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 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-research/SKILL.md · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

wiki-research

Deepen the wiki through research the user steers. The defining feature of this skill is the menu: you propose concrete, scoped research options and the user picks. Don't run a sprawling investigation unprompted.

1. Survey the wiki for gaps

Read wiki/index.md, wiki/overview.md, and wiki/open-questions.md. Skim the entity/concept pages relevant to what the user mentioned. Look for:

  • Open questions that research could resolve.
  • Thin pages — entities/concepts asserted but under-developed.
  • Undefined terms used across pages but never pinned down.
  • External references the project leans on — competitors, standards, prior art, libraries/APIs, domain background — that we've never actually studied.
  • Unvalidated assumptions stated as fact with no source.

2. Build a research menu

Turn the gaps into 3–8 concrete research options. Each option is one investigable question, not a vague area. For each, note:

  • the question (specific and answerable),
  • why it matters / what it unblocks,
  • where you'd look (web search/fetch, Context7 for library/API docs, a specific competitor or spec, an MCP source),
  • the expected output (which sources/ capture and/or wiki/ page it produces).

Present the full menu to the user as a numbered list in your message so they see everything.

3. Let the user choose (interactive)

Use AskUserQuestion (multiSelect) to let the user pick which options to run. AskUserQuestion allows up to 4 options per question, so:

  • If you have ≤4 candidates, offer them directly.
  • If you have more, put the highest-value 3–4 in the picker and tell the user the rest are in your numbered list above — they can select "Other" and name any by number, or ask you to re-surface a different batch.

Respect the user's scoping. If they narrow or redirect, follow it. If they add a question you didn't list, take it.

4. Run the selected research

For each chosen option:

  • Use the right tool: WebSearch to find, WebFetch to read, Context7 for current library/framework/API docs, the relevant MCP for domain sources. Pull primary sources where you can; note when something is second-hand or uncertain.
  • Capture vs. synthesize — keep the layers separate:
    • If the research yields durable external material worth preserving (a competitor's model, a spec, a key article), write a faithful capture in sources/ (type: research or type: web), with the URLs consulted in frontmatter.
    • Then synthesize into the wiki: a wiki/references/<name>.md page for external/competitive captures, or update the relevant entity/concept/decision page with the findings. Cite the new source(s).
  • If the research answers an open question, fold the answer into the right page and move the question to Resolved in wiki/open-questions.md with a pointer.
  • If it raises new questions, add them to wiki/open-questions.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 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 · 93 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A b38e6ab18389

Subscribe to this mod's changes

wiki-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository shrimbly/project-wiki (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 1,022 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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