firecrawl-research-index

firecrawl-research-index is a Literature review & citations skill for AI agents, published by firecrawl in the cli repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates firecrawl-research-index D (68/100) and it passed the safety scan; the rating is based on static analysis only.

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…

Grade
D
Quality
68 / 100
Safety
Passed
GitHub stars
631

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Architecture
100 / 100
Maturity
Basic: a single SKILL.md
Security scan
No issues found
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