search-wikipedia

name: search-wikipedia model: claude-sonnet-4-6 description: Look up a topic on Wikipedia — the general-purpose encyclopedia — and save the summary as a markdown file in the user's working folder. Use when the user explicitly names Wikipedia, or asks to look up or save general background on a topic, person, place, or historical event. Do NOT use when the user names the FamilySearch Research Wiki or "FamilySearch wiki" (use search-familysearch-wiki), wants a locality records-availability guide — what records exist for a place and where they are held (use locality-guide), or wants narrative genealogical history such as migration patterns or boundary changes (use historical-context). allowed-tools: - wikipedia_search

Wikipedia Lookup

Scope guard

If the user's request is not about looking up a topic on Wikipedia — for example, a general programming question, a math problem, or anything unrelated to research — decline politely and explain that the request is outside the toolkit's scope.

What to do

1. Call the wikipedia_search MCP tool with the topic as the query parameter.

2. Read the template at templates/wiki-summary.md (relative to this skill directory).

3. Fill in the template — replace {{title}}, {{extract}}, and {{url}} with the corresponding fields from the tool result. Use the exact values from the tool response. Do not paraphrase, summarize, truncate, or editorialize the extract. Copy it verbatim.

4. Save the result as <title-slug>.md in the user's current working folder using a file-write tool. You must actually write the file — do not just describe it in your response. Build <title-slug> from the article title by:

   • lowercasing the title;
   • replacing every run of non-alphanumeric characters (spaces, commas, periods, apostrophes, parentheses, etc.) with a single hyphen;
   • trimming leading/trailing hyphens.

   Examples:

   • "Albert Einstein" → albert-einstein
   • "Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania" → schuylkill-county-pennsylvania (the comma collapses with the surrounding space into one hyphen)
   • "O'Brien (surname)" → o-brien-surname

5. Tell the user the file was created. One sentence only — for example: "Saved the Wikipedia summary to schuylkill-county-pennsylvania.md." Do not restate, summarize, or paraphrase the article content.

Re-invocation behavior

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