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)