firecrawl-research-index
The firecrawl-research-index skill provides tools for searching, expanding, and inspecting academic research papers. It enables semantic search over abstracts, structural expansion via citation and reference mapping, and targeted full-text verification of specific paper content.
Is firecrawl-research-index safe to install?
Review the source first: our audit of firecrawl-research-index's source files found 6 shell commands, 0 external URLs, no file writes (high risk). Every command and URL listed appears verbatim in the skill's source. The skill executes shell commands and performs network-based research tasks, including web searches and scraping.
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Who is this skill for?
AI agents performing literature reviews, academic research, or technical paper retrieval tasks.
What can you do with it?
- Finding papers based on a research query
- Expanding a set of papers using semantic similarity, citations, or references
- Retrieving canonical metadata for specific papers
- Verifying specific claims or constraints within a paper's full text
- Locating benchmark rankings and leaderboards via web search
How good is this skill?
Quality score: 5/10. The documentation clearly defines the toolset and provides specific guidance on matching tools to query types.
What does the skill file contain?
# 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. 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 sturctural/semantic expansion. Don't run machinery a query doesn't call for. ## The ...
Frequently asked questions
How do I find papers related to a specific method?
Use firecrawl_research_related_papers with the seed paper IDs and set the mode to similar, citers, or references to expand the search.
Can this skill read the full text of a paper?
Yes, firecrawl_research_read_paper retrieves specific passages from a paper to verify constraints or answer questions.
How should I handle leaderboard or benchmark queries?
Use firecrawl_search or firecrawl_scrape to find the leaderboard on the web, then map the top entries to papers using firecrawl_research_search_papers.
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