Wikipedia

Overview

Pulls facts straight from Wikipedia. Agents use it to get quick, trustworthy background on people, places, companies, or concepts before going deeper — and it works across dozens of languages.

How it works

Calls the public Wikipedia REST API with one of three operations: 'summary' fetches a page's lead paragraph, 'search' matches keywords to page titles, and 'article' returns the full article text. Supports every Wikipedia language edition (en, de, zh, …).

Example

When a user asks:

Give me a short background on the Federal Reserve.

the agent calls the tool:

wikipedia(title="Federal Reserve", operation="summary")

and gets back: a concise encyclopedic summary of the topic.

Configuration

Set these before calling the tool. Values marked required must be present or the tool call will fail.

Use it in a workflow

Wire this tool into a SwarmAI crew. Use the YAML DSL for declarative workflows, or the Java builder API when you want full programmatic control.

YAML DSL

# background-research.yaml
name: background-research-crew
process: SEQUENTIAL

agents:
  - id: analyst
    role: Research Analyst
    goal: Ground answers with trustworthy encyclopedic facts
    tools:
      - wikipedia

tasks:
  - id: background-research-task
    agent: analyst
    description: Fetch a Wikipedia summary for 'Federal Reserve' and extract its stated mandate.

Java

import ai.intelliswarm.swarmai.agent.Agent;
import ai.intelliswarm.swarmai.task.Task;
import ai.intelliswarm.swarmai.swarm.Swarm;
import ai.intelliswarm.swarmai.swarm.SwarmOutput;
import ai.intelliswarm.swarmai.process.ProcessType;
import ai.intelliswarm.swarmai.tool.research.WikipediaTool;
import org.springframework.ai.chat.client.ChatClient;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;

@Autowired ChatClient chatClient;
@Autowired WikipediaTool wikipediaTool;

Agent analyst = Agent.builder()
    .role("Research Analyst")
    .goal("Ground answers with trustworthy encyclopedic facts")
    .chatClient(chatClient)
    .tool(wikipediaTool)
    .build();

Task analystTask = Task.builder()
    .description("Fetch a Wikipedia summary for 'Federal Reserve' and extract its stated mandate.")
    .agent(analyst)
    .build();

SwarmOutput result = Swarm.builder()
    .agent(analyst)
    .task(analystTask)
    .process(ProcessType.SEQUENTIAL)
    .build()
    .kickoff();

What it's good for

Real scenarios where agents put this tool to work.

Source

Implementation lives at swarmai-tools/src/main/java/ai/intelliswarm/swarmai/tool/research/WikipediaTool.java in the swarm-ai repository.

Open wikipedia on GitHub →