firecrawl-research-index agent skill by firecrawl
Finds papers that answer a research query in Firecrawl's paper index, covering biomedical and life-science literature plus arXiv preprints, using semantic search and verification.
At a glance
| Publisher | Firecrawl Official |
|---|---|
| Repository | firecrawl/skills (32 listed skills) |
| Category | Science and Research |
| License | ISC |
| Last commit | October 18, 2026 (repository) |
| SKILL.md | 68 lines, 1,294 words |
| Bundled files | 1 file |
| Quality score | 76/100 · C Passes all seven graded checks |
| Security scan | Not scanned |
| README badge | Get the listing badge and raise the score |
Before you install
Read from the skill's files at the directory's October 19, 2026 snapshot: what ships with it, what its code reads, and the terms it is published under.
- Bundled scripts: none.
- License: ISC, an open-source or open-content license.
Install firecrawl-research-index
The skills CLI works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents; the other routes copy the folder by hand.
npx skills add https://github.com/firecrawl/skills/tree/main/skills/core/firecrawl-research-indextmp="$(mktemp -d)"
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/firecrawl/skills.git "$tmp/repo"
mkdir -p .claude/skills
cp -R "$tmp/repo/"skills/core/firecrawl-research-index .claude/skills/
rm -rf "$tmp"python3 ~/.codex/skills/.system/skill-installer/scripts/install-skill-from-github.py \
--repo firecrawl/skills \
--path skills/core/firecrawl-research-indexfirecrawl/skills is third-party code. Read SKILL.md and any bundled scripts before you install it.
How the author describes it
Find the papers that answer a research query in Firecrawl's research paper index — a corpus of paper abstracts whose largest share is biomedical and life-science literature (PubMed, bioRxiv, medRxiv), alongside arXiv preprints in CS, physics, and math — using semantic search, semantic and structural expansion, and in-body verification. Use this skill for literature-finding and paper-retrieval tasks of any kind, including clinical, biomedical, drug, gene, disease, and other life-science questions, whether the answer is a single paper or a full multi-paper set. The index is reached only through the `firecrawl_research_*` MCP tools or the `firecrawl research` CLI subcommands. Calling `firecrawl_search` with its `categories` option set to `["research"]` is a different feature — it filters ordinary web search to research-affiliated websites (the list includes PubMed, bioRxiv, medRxiv, arXiv, and publisher sites) and returns page results from them, without querying the paper records in this index.
From the description field of SKILL.md. Agents read this line to decide when to load the skill.
Sections in SKILL.md
- What is in the index
- The tools, and what each is uniquely good at
- Match the approach to the query
- Principles
- See also
Files in the skill folder
SKILL.md
Suede Skill Check: 76/100 · C
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The rubric totals 100 points; published scores are capped at 99. Security scan: not scanned.
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- Description length: 1 of 5 points. 5 for 150–600 characters; 3 for 100–900; 1 for 50–1,024.
- Boundary clause: 0 of 4 points. 4 when the description says when not to use the skill (“Not for …”, “Do not use …”, “Use … instead”).
- Reference files: 0 of 3 points. 3 when the skill folder ships a references/, reference/ or docs/ folder.
Add declarations and bundled files when they describe the skill’s actual needs. Update the source, then request a fresh review with the changed commit or PR.
firecrawl-research-index passes the required frontmatter check and all seven graded checks, which cover the SKILL.md format, a declared license and a commit in the last year. Those checks earn 56 of the score’s points; the rest come from description quality, instruction depth, bundled files, maintenance and curated-list citations. How the score works.
See the checks and points
| Check | Result |
|---|---|
| Frontmatter parses and declares a name and a description | Pass |
| Name uses lowercase letters, digits and hyphens, 64 characters or fewer | Pass |
| Name matches the skill's folder name | Pass |
| Description is between 50 and 1,024 characters | Pass |
| Description says when an agent should use the skill | Pass |
| SKILL.md body is 500 lines or fewer | Pass |
| A license is declared in the frontmatter or the repository | Pass |
| Repository has a commit in the last 12 months | Pass |
| Score component | Points |
|---|---|
| Structural checks | 56 of 56 |
| Description length | 1 of 5 |
| Boundary clause | 0 of 4 |
| Example request | 3 of 3 |
| Instruction depth | 7 of 7 |
| Reference files | 0 of 3 |
| Bundled scripts | 0 of 2 |
| Recent maintenance | 9 of 9 |
| Curated-list citations | 0 of 7 |
| Tool permissions declared | 0 of 2 |
| Compatibility declared | 0 of 2 |
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firecrawl-research-index is listed with 76/100 · C. This badge links to its Suede listing. Skills scoring 80–99 add a numeric and a letter quality shield; the largest open points for firecrawl-research-index are boundary clause (4), description length (4) and reference files (3). Send your repository and the points you want to raise, then request a fresh review after updating the skill.
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