Agent skill · software engineering · mvanhorn
pp-wikipedia
Printing Press CLI for Wikipedia. Wikipedia REST API. Get article summaries, search, browse related topics, and access on-this-day events. No...
Why this skill is useful
Adds specific commands and usage patterns for the Wikipedia REST API that the AI wouldn't reliably generate on its own.
What it needs
Requires wikipedia-pp-cli installed locally. About 4k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-06. 1,890 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Wikipedia — Printing Press CLI Prerequisites: Install the CLI This skill drives the wikipedia-pp-cli binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first: 1. Install via the Printing Press installer. It defaults binaries to $HOME/.local/bin on macOS/Linux and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\PrintingPress\bin on Windows: 2. Verify: wikipedia-pp-cli --version 3. Ensure the reported install directory is on $PATH for the agent/runtime that will invoke this skill. If the npx install fails (no Node, offline, etc.), fall back to a direct Go install (requires Go 1.26.6 or newer): If --version reports "command not found" after install, the runtime cannot see the binary directory on $PATH. Do not proceed with skill commands until verification succeeds. When Not to Use This CLI Do not activate this CLI for requests that require creating, updating, deleting, publishing, commenting, upvoting, inviting, ordering, sending messages, booking, purchasing, or changing remote state. This printed CLI exposes read-only commands for inspection, export, sync, and analysis. Command Reference feed — Manage feed wikipedia-pp-cli feed <day> — Returns events, births, deaths, or holidays that occurred on a given date. page — Article content and metadata wikipedia-pp-cli page get-html — Returns the full article body as styled HTML. wikipedia-pp-cli page get-media — Returns images, videos, and other media files associated with an article. wikipedia-pp-cli page get-random — Returns a random Wikipedia article summary. wikipedia-pp-cli page get-summary — Returns a page summary including title, extract text, thumbnail, and coordinates. Finding the right command When you know what you want to do but not which command does it, ask the CLI directly: which resolves a natural-language capability query to the best matching command from this CLI's curated feature index. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills mvanhorn/pp-wikipedia--cb1ab7