firecrawl-research-index SKILL.md skillA
firecrawl-research-index from firecrawl/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add firecrawl/skills/firecrawl-research-index@git:20260827.f6c9b2dPins git:20260827.f6c9b2d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- firecrawl/skills
- Path
skills/core/firecrawl-research-index/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260827.f6c9b2d, committed Aug 27, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 21, 2026
- Size
- 9,821 bytes
- Repository stars
- 135
- License
- ISC
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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How to install
mdr add firecrawl/skills/firecrawl-research-index@sha256:39c6a6cff3fdb1c6The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260827.f6c9b2d, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_6suta2jpq4ap4gbw)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Aug 21, 2026 and Aug 27, 2026, about one every 6 days.
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| git:20260827.f6c9b2d latest | 2026-08-27 | f6c9b2d | 9,821 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260821.29302f6 | 2026-08-21 | 29302f6 | 9,628 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (9821 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
firecrawl/skills · 135 stars · license ISC · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6suta2jpq4ap4gbw GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=firecrawl/skills/firecrawl-research-index GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/39c6a6cff3fdb1c684c3212834e68bc6168f374b57d3acd002523b8c4fe3d07a
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