Wiki Retrieve

Wiki Retrieve is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by AgriciDaniel in claude-obsidian.

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Install Wiki Retrieve

Copy Wiki Retrieve into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/AgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian/tree/main/skills/wiki-retrieve ~/.claude/skills/wiki-retrieve

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/AgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/wiki-retrieve/SKILL.md in AgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/wiki-retrieve
Collection: One of 16 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Wiki Retrieve does

Wiki Retrieve builds and queries a vault-local contextual BM25 retrieval index with optional Nomic cosine reranking for finding relevant passages. It requires explicit consent for remote egress and falls back to BM25 when reranking is unavailable.

Wiki Retrieve is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Wiki Retrieve comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-note-taking, ai-second-brain, claude-code and claude-code-skill.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Retrieve relevant passages

This extension derives search data from wiki/ into .vault-meta/. It never changes canonical notes. Always pass the selected vault explicitly.

Resolve the installed product root from this skill's own location, not from the vault or current working directory:

PRODUCT_ROOT=/absolute/path/to/installed/claude-obsidian
PREFIX="$PRODUCT_ROOT/scripts/contextual-prefix.py"
BM25="$PRODUCT_ROOT/scripts/bm25-index.py"
RETRIEVE="$PRODUCT_ROOT/scripts/retrieve.py"
RERANK="$PRODUCT_ROOT/scripts/rerank.py"
test -f "$PREFIX" && test -f "$BM25" && test -f "$RETRIEVE" && test -f "$RERANK"

Pipeline

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Wiki Retrieve

What else does AgriciDaniel publish alongside Wiki Retrieve?
Wiki Retrieve is one of 16 skills that DirSkills catalogs from AgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Autoresearch, Canvas and Defuddle. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Wiki Retrieve does, and is maintained by AgriciDaniel in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the AgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian page.
How does Wiki Retrieve compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Wiki Retrieve ranks #381 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Wiki Retrieve against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.