wiki-architect
wiki-architect is an agent skill published by microsoft, listed under writing & docs. It lives in the microsoft/skills repository, which has 3,148 GitHub stars and is licensed under MIT; we last read it on 2026-09-16.
Analyzes code repositories and generates hierarchical documentation structures with onboarding guides.
Install
skills is a generic installer for any repository of Claude agent skills -- it reads microsoft/skills’s own structure rather than assuming one, the same way this page reads the skill’s own SKILL.md rather than assuming a format.
npx skills add microsoft/skills
Maintenance
Analyzes code repositories and generates hierarchical documentation structures with onboarding guides. Use when the user wants to create a wiki, generate documentation, map a codebase structure, or understand a project's architecture at a high level.
wiki-architect compared with similar skills
| Skill | Publisher | What it does | Repo stars | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| wiki-architect (this page) | microsoft | Analyzes code repositories and generates hierarchical documentation structures with onboarding guides. Use wh… | 3,148 | 2026-10-25 |
| microsoft-docs(same repository) | microsoft | Understand Microsoft technologies by querying official documentation. Use whenever the user asks how somethin… | 3,148 | 2026-10-25 |
| wiki-changelog(same repository) | microsoft | Analyzes git commit history and generates structured changelogs categorized by change type. Use when the user… | 3,148 | 2026-10-25 |
| wiki-llms-txt(same repository) | microsoft | Generates llms.txt and llms-full.txt files for LLM-friendly project documentation following the llms.txt spec… | 3,148 | 2026-10-25 |
| wiki-onboarding(same repository) | microsoft | Generates four audience-tailored onboarding guides in an onboarding/ folder — Contributor, Staff Engineer, Ex… | 3,148 | 2026-10-25 |
| wiki-page-writer(same repository) | microsoft | Generates rich technical documentation pages with dark-mode Mermaid diagrams, source code citations, and firs… | 3,148 | 2026-10-25 |
| academy-guide | anthropic | Stop and check this skill before finishing any reply to a question about how to use Claude or a Claude produc… | 183,845 | 2026-10-09 |
Skills from the same repository first, then others for this job by repository stars. Figures are from each repository when we last read it.
Common questions about wiki-architect
- What does wiki-architect do?
- Analyzes code repositories and generates hierarchical documentation structures with onboarding guides.
- How do I install wiki-architect?
- Run npx skills add microsoft/skills. The skills installer reads the repository’s own structure, so it works for any repository of agent skills.
- Who publishes wiki-architect?
- microsoft.
- Is wiki-architect maintained, and what licence does it use?
- Its repository has 3,148 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is listed. Its last commit we recorded was on 2026-10-25. The repository declares the MIT licence.
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