Give your coding agent instant knowledge of any public GitHub repo.
Inspired by “On DeepWiki and increasing malleability of software” — Andrej KarpathyInstall the Claude Code skill
Enables Claude Code to use DeepWiki directly on your behalf.
npx skills add https://github.com/seflless/deepwiki --skill deepwiki
Ask anything
“ How does the fiber reconciler work in facebook/react? ”
“ What's the architecture of oven-sh/bun? ”
“ Compare how facebook/react and vercel/next.js handle server components ”
CLI
There's also a CLI if you want to use deepwiki directly.
npm install -g @seflless/deepwiki
Or use npx @seflless/deepwiki without installing.
Usage
Ask a question
deepwiki ask facebook/react "How does the fiber reconciler work?"Full wiki
deepwiki wiki oven-sh/bunTable of contents
deepwiki toc facebook/reactJSON output
deepwiki wiki anthropics/claude-code --json > docs.jsonFlags
--json Output raw JSON
-q, --quiet Suppress spinners
--no-color Disable colors
How it works
deepwiki is a thin CLI wrapper around DeepWiki's MCP server. It sends JSON-RPC requests to DeepWiki's public API and formats the responses for terminal and agent consumption.