Help:Ephemera Agent/Maintenance Tools

The Wiki Control Panel (MAINT tab in the agent UI) provides deterministic, read-only maintenance queries against the wiki. No LLM is involved. Results are returned instantly and are clickable — clicking a page title opens it in the Browser tab.

Accessing the Control Panel

Click the MAINT button in the top header bar of the agent UI.

Backend: maintenance.php

All tools call maintenance.php directly via POST with an action parameter. The file uses bot credentials (from /etc/environment) via the shared wiki_api.php layer. It is read-only — no writes of any kind.

Available Tools

Stub Pages

Action: stubs
Namespace: Encyclopedia (NS 0)
Method: MediaWiki search — hastemplate:stub

Returns pages in the main namespace that use the Template:Stub template. These are candidates for the Expand workflow.

Orphaned Pages

Action: orphans
Namespace: All
Method: MediaWiki built-in special page — LonelyPages

Returns pages with no inbound links from any other page. Orphaned pages are invisible to navigation and to the agent's link-expansion context step.

Uncategorized Pages

Action: uncategorized
Namespace: Encyclopedia (NS 0)
Method: MediaWiki built-in special page — UncategorizedPages

Returns NS 0 pages belonging to no category.

Missing References

Action: missing_references
Namespace: Encyclopedia (NS 0)
Method: Batch content fetch + string check

Returns pages ≥ 500 characters that have no == References == section. Very short pages (likely stubs) are skipped.

=== Missing

Instruction Metadata
id
type
applies_to
task_type
priority
status	active
canonical	true
include_by_default	no
requires
tags

Template ===

Action: missing_instruction
Namespace: Instructions (NS 100)
Method: allpages list + batch template property check

Returns Instruction namespace pages that do not use the



Instruction Metadata


id




type




applies_to




task_type




priority




status

active


canonical

true


include_by_default

no


requires




tags

template. These pages will not have structured metadata and may be invisible to the context assembly pipeline.

=== Missing

Source Metadata
id
type
subtype
author
affiliation
date
location
canonical	true
reliability
bias
status	published
related
tags

Template ===

Action: missing_source
Namespace: Sources (NS 102)
Method: allpages list + batch template property check

Returns Source namespace pages that do not use the



Source Metadata


id




type




subtype




author




affiliation




date




location




canonical

true


reliability




bias




status

published


related




tags

template. These pages lack reliability, bias, and canon_status metadata.

API Reference

Direct POST to https://ephemerawiki.space/maintenance.php:

{
  "action": "stubs",   // or orphans, uncategorized, missing_references,
                       //    missing_instruction, missing_source
  "limit": 100         // max results, default 50, max 200
}

Response:

{
  "action": "stubs",
  "pages": [
    { "title": "Example Page", "size": 842, "timestamp": "2026-04-22T..." }
  ],
  "count": 1,
  "total_checked": 47   // present on template/reference checks only
}

Planned Extensions

The following are defined in the maintenance proposal but not yet implemented:

Category B — Preview/report tools (generate proposed change plans, no writes)
Category C — Guarded write tools (dry-run + confirmation step)
LLM-assisted editorial workflows via Instructions:Maintenance/* pages
Scheduled maintenance runs