firecrawl-research-index
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…
Install / Use
npx skills add firecrawl/cli --skill firecrawl-research-indexInstalls into whichever agent you are using.
SKILL.md
Installable skill definition
Quality Score
Category
Education & ResearchSupported Platforms
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Our assessment of firecrawl-research-index
firecrawl-research-index scores 84/100 on our quality scale, 318th of 429 Education & Research skills we index.
We have not analysed the SKILL.md file itself yet, so the content part of this score is an estimate until our crawler reaches it.
It has 639 GitHub stars, a meaningful sign that others use it.
Maintenance, license and trust
- The repository was last updated 9 days ago, so firecrawl-research-index is actively maintained.
- No license is declared. By default that means all rights are reserved: you can read it, but reusing or redistributing it is not clearly permitted. Ask the author before building on it commercially.
- Its trust signals score 88/100, with 1 caution from licensing, adoption, age or documentation. These come from repository metadata, not a code audit — read the skill file before letting an agent act on it.
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| firecrawl-research-index (this skill)by firecrawl | 84 | 639 | 9d ago | SKILL.md |
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Frequently asked questions
- How do I install firecrawl-research-index?
- Run
npx skills add firecrawl/cli --skill firecrawl-research-index. The install tabs above show the steps for each supported agent. - Which AI agents does firecrawl-research-index work with?
- It is written for Universal, as a SKILL.md file. Other agents that read the same format can often use it too.
- Is firecrawl-research-index safe to use?
- It declares no license and scores 88/100 on trust signals. Skills are instructions an agent will follow, so read the file before installing it and do not approve commands you do not understand.
- Is firecrawl-research-index still maintained?
- The repository was last updated 9 days ago, so firecrawl-research-index is actively maintained.
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From repository metadata: license, adoption, age and documentation. Not a code audit — see the Safety scan above for what the skill file itself contains.