firecrawl-research-index
firecrawl-research-index is the official agent skill of firecrawl published by firecrawl, listed under research. It lives in the firecrawl/skills repository, which has 138 GitHub stars and is licensed under ISC; we last read it on 2026-09-16.
This tool searches Firecrawl's research paper index, which includes biomedical and life-science literature from sources like PubMed, bioRxiv, medRxiv, and arXiv preprints in CS, physics, and math, using semantic search and expansion. Access is via `firecrawl_research_*` MCP tools or `firecrawl research` CLI subcommands.
Install
skills is a generic installer for any repository of Claude agent skills -- it reads firecrawl/skills’s own structure rather than assuming one, the same way this page reads the skill’s own SKILL.md rather than assuming a format.
npx skills add firecrawl/skills
What it connects to
Unverified means a mention in the skill’s own description, not a citation. A wrong claim here costs nothing to correct and nothing to trust yet.
Maintenance
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.
firecrawl-research-index compared with similar skills
| Skill | Publisher | What it does | Repo stars | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| firecrawl-research-index (this page) | firecrawl | Find the papers that answer a research query in Firecrawl's research paper index — a corpus of paper abstract… | 138 | 2026-10-22 |
| firecrawl(same repository) | firecrawl | Any live-web task via the Firecrawl CLI — including ordinary web research: searching the web, reading or extr… | 138 | 2026-10-22 |
| firecrawl-company-directories(same repository) | firecrawl | Extract structured company lists with Firecrawl from any page or site that lists companies: accelerator batch… | 138 | 2026-10-22 |
| firecrawl-deep-research(same repository) | firecrawl | Produce an intensive, cited analytical report: executive summary, multi-angle findings, contrarian views, ope… | 138 | 2026-10-22 |
| firecrawl-lead-research(same repository) | firecrawl | Enrich and research the people and companies the user names or supplies with Firecrawl Alexandria data: backg… | 138 | 2026-10-22 |
| firecrawl-research-papers(same repository) | firecrawl | Find and synthesize research papers, whitepapers, PDFs, technical reports, and academic sources with Firecraw… | 138 | 2026-10-22 |
| firecrawl-search(same repository) | firecrawl | Find web sources with query-relevant page excerpts and optional full-page content, and discover workflows, da… | 138 | 2026-10-22 |
Skills from the same repository first, then others for this job by repository stars. Figures are from each repository when we last read it.
Common questions about firecrawl-research-index
- What does firecrawl-research-index do?
- This tool searches Firecrawl's research paper index, which includes biomedical and life-science literature from sources like PubMed, bioRxiv, medRxiv, and arXiv preprints in CS, physics, and math, using semantic search and expansion. Access is via `firecrawl_research_*` MCP tools or `firecrawl research` CLI subcommands.
- How do I install firecrawl-research-index?
- Run npx skills add firecrawl/skills. The skills installer reads the repository’s own structure, so it works for any repository of agent skills.
- Who publishes firecrawl-research-index?
- firecrawl. It is named as the official skill of firecrawl.
- Is firecrawl-research-index maintained, and what licence does it use?
- Its repository has 138 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is listed. Its last commit we recorded was on 2026-10-22. The repository declares the ISC licence.
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