wiki-researcher
wiki-researcher is an agent skill published by microsoft, listed under research. 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.
Conducts multi-turn iterative deep research on specific topics within a codebase with zero tolerance for shallow analysis. Use when the user wants an in-depth investigation, needs to understand how something works across multiple files, or asks for comprehensive analysis of a specific system or pattern.
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
Conducts multi-turn iterative deep research on specific topics within a codebase with zero tolerance for shallow analysis. Use when the user wants an in-depth investigation, needs to understand how something works across multiple files, or asks for comprehensive analysis of a specific system or pattern.
wiki-researcher compared with similar skills
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| wiki-researcher (this page) | microsoft | Conducts multi-turn iterative deep research on specific topics within a codebase with zero tolerance for shal… | 3,148 | 2026-10-25 |
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| huggingface-papers | huggingface | Look up and read Hugging Face paper pages in markdown, and use the papers API for structured metadata such as… | 11,213 | 2026-10-23 |
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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-researcher
- What does wiki-researcher do?
- Conducts multi-turn iterative deep research on specific topics within a codebase with zero tolerance for shallow analysis. Use when the user wants an in-depth investigation, needs to understand how something works across multiple files, or asks for comprehensive analysis of a specific system or pattern.
- How do I install wiki-researcher?
- 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-researcher?
- microsoft.
- Is wiki-researcher 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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