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Wikipedia Search

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aws-samples·vlatest·other·MIT

Quickly retrieve concise summaries and relevant facts from Wikipedia articles using this AWS Samples tool.

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    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore --skill wikipedia-search -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

What we know about this skill

Publisher

aws-samples

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Live repository

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Automated safety checks

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This skill passed all 6 checks. We read its files at one commit and looked for the things that make a skill dangerous to run — not for whether it works.

  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No undeclared network calls: passed

    Makes no network calls.

    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

    No encoded or obfuscated payloads.

    No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.

  • No credential access: passed

    Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.

    Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.

  • No pipe-to-shell installers: passed

    No pipe-to-shell or download-and-run installers.

    No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.

  • Pinned to a commit: passed

    Scanned aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore at 4c1933d9e3.

    The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.

Commit
4c1933d9e3
Manifest
chatbot-app/agentcore/skills/wikipedia-search/SKILL.md
Scanned
1 file, 37 lines
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About this skill

What it does

This skill allows AI agents to search Wikipedia for information. It retrieves and presents summaries of articles, providing a quick way to access factual knowledge on a wide range of topics. The agent can use this skill to answer questions or gather background information for more complex tasks.

When to use it

  • Answering Factual Questions: "What is the capital of France?"
  • Researching Topics: "Tell me about the history of jazz music."
  • Summarizing Articles: "Give me a brief overview of quantum physics."
  • Finding Definitions: "What does 'photosynthesis' mean?"

Key capabilities

  • Wikipedia article search
  • Article summarization
  • Information retrieval

Example prompts

  • "Search Wikipedia for information about the Amazon rainforest."
  • "Summarize the Wikipedia article on artificial intelligence."
  • "Find me a brief description of the Eiffel Tower from Wikipedia."

Tips & gotchas

The skill relies on the accuracy and completeness of Wikipedia content. Results may vary depending on the topic's coverage on Wikipedia.