Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx skills add firecrawl/firecrawl-claude-plugin --skill firecrawl-research-indexgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-claude-pluginWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/firecrawl/firecrawl-claude-plugin/firecrawl-research-index)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/firecrawl/firecrawl-claude-plugin/firecrawl-research-index"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/firecrawl/firecrawl-claude-plugin/firecrawl-research-index/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/firecrawl/firecrawl-claude-plugin/firecrawl-research-index"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/firecrawl/firecrawl-claude-plugin/firecrawl-research-index.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00040 | $0.00361 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00016 | $0.00144 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00072 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00036 |
Grade A, and why
firecrawl-research-index scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured today.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
What it actually says
Paper research
Use Firecrawl's paper-index MCP tools for scientific literature, including
biomedical and arXiv papers. If a tool is deferred, discover it with the host's
tool search. Ordinary firecrawl_search with the research category filters web
sources; it does not query the same paper index.
firecrawl_research_search_papersfinds papers from a natural-language query. Add author, category, or date filters when the request requires them.firecrawl_research_inspect_paperretrieves canonical metadata for a knownpaperId. Reuse identifiers returned by search or supplied by the user.firecrawl_research_related_papersexpands fromseed_idsusing the requested relationship: similar work, citing papers, or references. Itsintentstates what the related work should address.firecrawl_research_read_paperretrieves full-text passages relevant to aquestionabout onepaperId.
Choose the operations needed for the question; a known paper does not require
another discovery search. Verify substantive claims with relevant passages when
available. If full text is unavailable, label conclusions based on the abstract
or metadata and use firecrawl_scrape on an accessible source URL when helpful.
Cite paper URLs or persistent identifiers. Distinguish a paper's claims from your synthesis and do not describe a partial search as an exhaustive review. Respect the user's source and tool choices. Report connection or authentication errors.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- today Changed · -2 tokens per session 7c4f921c9956
- 11d ago Changed · -42 lines · -184 tokens per session 5bb3a49c0e81
- 1mo ago First seen · 74 lines · 226 tokens per session scan A 39c6a6cff3fd
firecrawl-research-index is a skill published in the GitHub repository firecrawl/firecrawl-claude-plugin (247 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 361 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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