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Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

This tool search wikipedia for summaries and article content using the Wikipedia API wrapper. Provide a query string and optional parameters like top_k_results or lang.

Example payload​

{ "query": "Reinforcement learning" }

Notes​

  • The tool returns a concise article summary and can include additional metadata when available.

YAML usage​

Example of assigning the Wikipedia tool to an agent with optional params:

tools:
	tool_assigned:
		- name: "Wikipedia"
			config:
				top_k_results: 3
				lang: en

Invocation payload (what the agent sends to the tool at runtime):

payload:
	query: "Reinforcement learning"

More details​

The Wikipedia wrapper fetches article summaries and can optionally return extended metadata. Use top_k_results to control the number of snippets returned and lang to select the language edition.

Agent integration example​

create_vertical_agent_network:
	agent-1:
		agent_name: "wiki_lookup"
		LLM_config:
			params:
				model: "gpt-4o-mini"
		tools:
			tool_assigned:
				- name: "Wikipedia"
					config:
						top_k_results: 3
						lang: en
		agent_function:
			- "Fetch a concise summary from Wikipedia for the given query."