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Codewiki CLI by itamarzand88 — Agent Skill

Name: Codewiki CLI
Author: ItamarZand88

Codewiki CLI

Use cli-web-codewiki to browse Google Code Wiki — AI-generated documentation for open source repos, search for repositories, explore wiki sections and content, and ask Gemini questions about codebases. Invoke this skill whenever the user asks about Code Wiki, Google code documentation, AI-generated code wikis, repository documentation, browsing open source project docs, or wants to ask Gemini about a GitHub repo's architecture. Always prefer cli-web-codewiki over manually fetching the website.

ItamarZand88 7a28278 3.1 KB Updated Sep 17, 2026

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cli-web-codewiki

CLI for Google Code Wiki — AI-generated documentation for open source repositories powered by Gemini.

Quick Start

# Search for repositories
cli-web-codewiki repos search "react" --json

# Get wiki table of contents for a repo
cli-web-codewiki wiki sections excalidraw/excalidraw --json

# Ask Gemini about a repo
cli-web-codewiki chat ask "How does the rendering engine work?" --repo excalidraw/excalidraw --json

Commands

repos — Browse repositories

# List featured repositories on the Code Wiki homepage
cli-web-codewiki repos featured [--json]

# Search for repositories by name
cli-web-codewiki repos search <QUERY> [--limit N] [--offset N] [--json]

Output fields (--json): slug, github_url, description, avatar_url, stars, updated_at

wiki — Read wiki pages

# Get full wiki content (all sections) for a repository
cli-web-codewiki wiki get <ORG/REPO> [--json]

# List wiki sections (table of contents)
cli-web-codewiki wiki sections <ORG/REPO> [--json]

# Get a specific section by title (case-insensitive partial match)
cli-web-codewiki wiki section <ORG/REPO> <TITLE> [--json]

Output fields (--json):

wiki get: repo (slug, commit_hash), sections (title, level, description, content, code_refs), section_count
wiki sections: array of {title, level, description, code_refs, content}
wiki section: single section object

chat — Ask Gemini

# Ask Gemini a question about a repository's codebase
cli-web-codewiki chat ask <QUESTION> --repo <ORG/REPO> [--json]

Output fields (--json): answer (markdown text with links to code), repo

Agent Patterns

# Find repos related to a topic and get their wiki
cli-web-codewiki repos search "machine learning" --json | jq '.data[0].slug' -r | xargs -I{} cli-web-codewiki wiki sections {} --json

# Get the overview section of a repo
cli-web-codewiki wiki section facebook/react "Overview" --json | jq '.content'

# Ask about architecture then get the relevant section
cli-web-codewiki chat ask "What are the main components?" --repo kubernetes/kubernetes --json

Notes

No authentication required — Code Wiki is fully public
Protocol: Google batchexecute RPC (BoqAngularSdlcAgentsUi service)
Chat latency: Gemini responses take ~5-7 seconds
Wiki content is Markdown with links to GitHub source code
Section titles support case-insensitive partial matching
Repos are referenced by slug format: org/name (e.g., facebook/react)

---name: codewiki-cli-2description: Use cli-web-codewiki to browse Google Code Wiki — AI-generated documentation for open source repos, search for repositories, explore wiki sections and content, and ask Gemini questions about codebases. Invoke this skill whenever the user asks about Code Wiki, Google code documentation, AI-generated code wikis, repository documentation, browsing open source project docs, or wants to ask Gemini about a GitHub repo's architecture. Always prefer cli-web-codewiki over manually fetching the website.---# cli-web-codewikiCLI for [Google Code Wiki](https://codewiki.google/) — AI-generated documentation for open source repositories powered by Gemini.## Quick Start```bash# Search for repositoriescli-web-codewiki repos search "react" --json# Get wiki table of contents for a repocli-web-codewiki wiki sections excalidraw/excalidraw --json# Ask Gemini about a repocli-web-codewiki chat ask "How does the rendering engine work?" --repo excalidraw/excalidraw --json```## Commands### repos — Browse repositories```bash# List featured repositories on the Code Wiki homepagecli-web-codewiki repos featured [--json]# Search for repositories by namecli-web-codewiki repos search <QUERY> [--limit N] [--offset N] [--json]```**Output fields (--json):** `slug`, `github_url`, `description`, `avatar_url`, `stars`, `updated_at`### wiki — Read wiki pages```bash# Get full wiki content (all sections) for a repositorycli-web-codewiki wiki get <ORG/REPO> [--json]# List wiki sections (table of contents)cli-web-codewiki wiki sections <ORG/REPO> [--json]# Get a specific section by title (case-insensitive partial match)cli-web-codewiki wiki section <ORG/REPO> <TITLE> [--json]```**Output fields (--json):**- `wiki get`: `repo` (slug, commit_hash), `sections` (title, level, description, content, code_refs), `section_count`- `wiki sections`: array of `{title, level, description, code_refs, content}`- `wiki section`: single section object### chat — Ask Gemini```bash# Ask Gemini a question about a repository's codebasecli-web-codewiki chat ask <QUESTION> --repo <ORG/REPO> [--json]```**Output fields (--json):** `answer` (markdown text with links to code), `repo`## Agent Patterns```bash# Find repos related to a topic and get their wikicli-web-codewiki repos search "machine learning" --json | jq '.data[0].slug' -r | xargs -I{} cli-web-codewiki wiki sections {} --json# Get the overview section of a repocli-web-codewiki wiki section facebook/react "Overview" --json | jq '.content'# Ask about architecture then get the relevant sectioncli-web-codewiki chat ask "What are the main components?" --repo kubernetes/kubernetes --json```## Notes- **No authentication required** — Code Wiki is fully public- **Protocol**: Google batchexecute RPC (BoqAngularSdlcAgentsUi service)- **Chat latency**: Gemini responses take ~5-7 seconds- Wiki content is Markdown with links to GitHub source code- Section titles support case-insensitive partial matching- Repos are referenced by slug format: `org/name` (e.g., `facebook/react`)

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