firecrawl-research-index SKILL.md skillA

This file is byte-identical to the first copy the registry indexed. Same content hash, so the same checks give both the same grade.

firecrawl-research-index from firecrawl/cli is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add firecrawl/cli/firecrawl-research-index@git:20261104.78e2167

Pins git:20261104.78e2167 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
firecrawl/cli
Path
skills/firecrawl-research-index/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
git:20261104.78e2167, committed Nov 4, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 20, 2026
Size
10,138 bytes
Repository stars
678
License
none declared

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…

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Firecrawl Research Index

Find the research papers that answer a research query. Some questions have a single answer; many have several — and when in doubt, lean toward returning the fuller relevant set (most relevant first) rather than narrowing to one. A reader is better served seeing the neighboring methods and papers than having them silently dropped.

## What is in the index

Paper abstracts, with full text reachable per paper. The largest share of the corpus is **biomedical and life-science** literature — **PubMed** journal articles plus **bioRxiv** and **medRxiv** preprints — so clinical, drug, gene, disease, epidemiology, and public-health questions are in scope. **arXiv** preprints cover computer science, physics, and mathematics. Coverage outside those sources is thinner: a paper that exists only behind a publisher paywall or in a niche venue may not be indexed, and the general web tools below are the fallback when it isn't.

There is **no fixed recipe**. Read the query, decide what kind it is, and choose the approach below. Some queries need a single search; others need heavy structural/semantic expansion. Don't run machinery a query doesn't call for.
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add firecrawl/cli/firecrawl-research-index@sha256:abf7ff6d73e1dfd6

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261104.78e2167, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_2trfuds7y2p6ogma.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_2trfuds7y2p6ogma)

2 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Aug 20, 2026 and Nov 4, 2026, about one every 15 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261104.78e2167 latest2026-11-04 78e2167 10,138 BA view · diff
git:20261104.89969502026-11-04 8996950 10,067 BA view · diff
git:20260827.509dd9c2026-08-27 509dd9c 9,821 BA view · diff
git:20260821.1603c242026-08-21 1603c24 9,628 BA view · diff
git:20260821.285fb952026-08-21 285fb95 9,628 BA view · diff
git:20260820.a47850d2026-08-20 a47850d 2,602 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (10138 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

firecrawl/cli · 678 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2trfuds7y2p6ogma
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=firecrawl/cli/firecrawl-research-index
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/abf7ff6d73e1dfd6d958ac9ad6eee6a9abee53326c21a476ff2f394fa60c09c5

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