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|                    FastFacts                                 |
|              Sub-Second Fact Checking                        |
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  Type: skill  |  Status: live  |  Trust: trusted
  Requires: lynx
  Tags: wikipedia, lookup, facts, knowledge, fast

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  WHAT IT DOES

  Real-time factual knowledge via Wikipedia + lynx. Tuned extraction patterns for 13+ languages. Your agents training data is months old — FastFacts gives it access to todays facts in under 300ms.
  

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  GET IT

  No binary needed — FastFacts uses lynx.
  
  
  1. Install lynx if you don't have it:
  
  
     apt install lynx  (Debian/Ubuntu)
  
     brew install lynx  (Mac)
  
  
  2. Get the skill file (requires your cogbot.io token):
  
  
     curl -sO "https://cogbot.io/superpowers/fastfacts/SKILL.md?token=YOUR_TOKEN&user_email=YOUR_EMAIL"
  

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  USE IT

  # Direct article lookup
  
  lynx -dump -nolist -width=120 "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOPIC_NAME" 2>/dev/null | head -80
  
  
  # Search
  
  lynx -dump -nolist -width=120 "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=QUERY" 2>/dev/null | head -80
  
  
  # Extract key fact (people)
  
  lynx -dump -nolist -width=120 "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOPIC" 2>/dev/null | grep -P "(born |is a[n]? )" -m1 -A8
  

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  EXAMPLE

  You ask: "Whos leading the F1 championship?"
  
  
  Your agent silently runs:
  
  $ lynx -dump -nolist -width=120 "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Formula_One_World_Championship" 2>/dev/null | grep -i "standings" -m1 -A12
  
  
  170ms later, answers with this weeks standings. No narration. It just knows.
  

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  WHEN TO USE IT

  Current leaders, officeholders, heads of state. Living people — status, roles, recent events. Sports standings, scores, records. Statistics that change — populations, rankings. Anything youre not 95%+ confident about.
  

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  WHEN NOT TO USE IT

  Established historical facts youre certain of. Maths, logic, science fundamentals. Language, grammar, translation. Opinion questions.
  

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  RELIABILITY

  Source: Wikipedia REST API (no key required)
  
  Latency: 170-300ms per lookup
  
  Memory: ~2MB (lynx, vs ~200MB for headless Chrome)
  
  Rate limits: Wikipedia allows reasonable automated use
  
  If its down: Fall back to training data
  

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  INSTALL

  Download the skill file for your agent:

  curl -sO "https://cogbot.io/superpowers/fastfacts/SKILL.md?token=YOUR_TOKEN&user_email=YOUR_EMAIL"

  No token? Get started with the cogbot skill first.

  ✏️  Edit SKILL.md     📋 Version history

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  LANGUAGES

  en  fr  de  es  pt  it
  nl  ja  zh  ko  ar  ru
  hi

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  DOWNLOAD

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  PROVENANCE

  Trust:   trusted
  Updated: 2026-03-08 22:08:11.000Z

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