Research Wiki Builder

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Starting a new wiki for a research topic or project
• Adding sources to an existing wiki and compiling pages from them
• Querying a wiki and filing the answer back into it
• Linting a wiki and refreshing its index and maintenance log

Example prompts

• “Start a research wiki about agent memory and set up its config.”
• “Add these papers to the open-source-models wiki and compile source pages for them.”
• “Generate a research map and update the index for my company-research wiki.”

Requirements

• Bash to run scripts/init_wiki.sh
• A writable folder for wikis, ~/dair-wikis by default

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

1. 1Resolve The Task
2. 2Use The Local Config
3. 3Preserve Provenance
4. 4Compile Pages
5. 5Maintain The Wiki

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 0abffdc. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Ships 1 file in scripts/ (Shell), which the agent can run.

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • bash

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Research Wiki Builder loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs, and up to ~2.1k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 99 tokens; SKILL.md has 585 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~99

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.3k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~2.1k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from dair-ai/dair-academy-plugins at commit 0abffdc, republished under its MIT licence (© dair-ai). 585 words, ~1,306 tokens.

name

wiki-builder

description

Start, structure, grow, query, and maintain reusable research wikis. Use when the user wants to create a new wiki, add sources to an existing wiki, compile source material into wiki pages, customize wiki structure or flavor, generate research maps, update indexes, or maintain knowledge bases for papers, topics, projects, products, people, organizations, or ongoing research areas.

${WIKI_ROOT:-$HOME/dair-wikis}/<wiki-slug>

<wiki-slug>/
├── wiki.config.md
├── raw/
├── wiki/
│   └── index.md
├── derived/
├── prompts/
│   ├── compile-index.md
│   ├── compile-source-page.md
│   ├── compile-concept-page.md
│   ├── query-and-file.md
│   └── lint-wiki.md
├── logs/
│   └── maintenance-log.md
└── sources.md

bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/wiki-builder/scripts/init_wiki.sh" <slug> --title "Readable Title" --flavor research

© dair-ai, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 12 other files (scripts, references) in plugins/wiki-builder/skills/wiki-builder of dair-ai/dair-academy-plugins.

• SKILL.md
• agents/openai.yaml
• references/wiki-flavors.md
• scripts/init_wiki.sh
• templates/index.md
• templates/maintenance-log.md
• templates/prompts/compile-concept-page.md
• templates/prompts/compile-index.md
• templates/prompts/compile-source-page.md
• templates/prompts/lint-wiki.md
• templates/prompts/query-and-file.md
• templates/sources.md
• templates/wiki.config.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 0abffdc