archwiki-local Pi extension

Local ArchWiki retrieval tools and an Arch/Arch-based distro troubleshooting skill backed by the installed arch-wiki-docs package. The skill prioritizes EndeavourOS first and CachyOS second when distro-specific context matters.

Docs path:

/usr/share/doc/arch-wiki/html/en/

Cache path:

~/.cache/pi/archwiki-local/
├── pages.json
└── metadata.json

Packaged skill

The package includes skills/arch-linux-local/SKILL.md, so publishing/installing the package can deliver the troubleshooting workflow and the extension together.

The skill is for Arch Linux and Arch-based distributions, not only vanilla Arch. It includes distro reference notes for EndeavourOS, CachyOS, Manjaro, Garuda Linux, Artix Linux, and BlackArch.

Registered commands

• /archwiki-status — reports docs path, page count, arch-wiki-docs package version, and cache freshness.

• /archwiki-local-setup — installs arch-wiki-docs with pacman when missing, and checks pacman -Qu arch-wiki-docs for pending updates when already installed. If automatic install/update is not possible, it tells the user to run:

  sudo pacman -S arch-wiki-docs

Registered tools

• archwiki_search — searches local pages with query normalization, query expansion, weighted ranking, snippets, and score explanations.
• archwiki_read — reads a page as clean text with local path citation.
• archwiki_sections — lists extracted headings.
• archwiki_extract — extracts a named or query-relevant section.
• archwiki_related — returns locally linked ArchWiki pages.

Notes

The first tool call builds the cache through the shared pi-utils local-wiki engine. Cache invalidation uses schema version, page count, docs path, and newest source mtime.

If /usr/share/doc/arch-wiki/html/en/ is missing or empty, ArchWiki-local prompts/tools warn that arch-wiki-docs is required and stop instead of falling back silently.

Local development note

The global extension symlink loads only the extension file. To load the packaged skill without a standalone ~/.pi/agent/skills/arch-linux-local copy, install the package as a local Pi package or add it to Pi package settings.