Free, keyless Agent Skills for search, scraping, papers and YouTube: take them

Description and use

<p>Wikimedia answers requests that carry an empty or generic User-Agent with HTTP 403. So when an agent's fetch tool sends one, "summarise this Wikipedia article" ends right there:<br> </p> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight plaintext"><code>$ curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n" -A "" https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/summary/Ada_Lovelace 403 </code></pre> </div> <p>Claude Code's tracker has bug reports about its fetch tool getting 403 on <a href="https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/22846" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wikipedia</a> and <a hre

Problem

<p>Wikimedia answers requests that carry an empty or generic User-Agent with HTTP 403. So when an agent's fetch tool sends one, "summarise this Wikipedia article" ends right there:<br> </p> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight plaintext"><code>$ curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n" -A "" https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/summary/Ada_Lovelace 403 </code></pre> </div> <p>Claude Code's tracker has bug reports about its fetch tool getting 403 on <a href="https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/22846" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wikipedia</a> and <a hre

Outcome

<p>Wikimedia answers requests that carry an empty or generic User-Agent with HTTP 403. So when an agent's fetch tool sends one, "summarise this Wikipedia article" ends right there:<br> </p> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight plaintext"><code>$ curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n" -A "" https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/summary/Ada_Lovelace 403 </code></pre> </div> <p>Claude Code's tracker has bug reports about its fetch tool getting 403 on <a href="https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/22846" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wikipedia</a> and <a hre

Evidence

Free, keyless Agent Skills for search, scraping, papers and YouTube: take them

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