Free Index Search

by kennethkhoocy

Free Index Search is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by kennethkhoocy in applied-micro-skills.

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Install Free Index Search

Copy Free Index Search into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/kennethkhoocy/applied-micro-skills/tree/main/plugins/applied-micro/skills/lit-review-orchestrator/freesearch-search ~/.claude/skills/freesearch-search

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/kennethkhoocy/applied-micro-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/applied-micro/skills/lit-review-orchestrator/freesearch-search/SKILL.md in kennethkhoocy/applied-micro-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/freesearch-search
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Free Index Search does

Performs keyless keyword searches across OpenAlex, Crossref, and Semantic Scholar for literature reviews. Use as a fallback discovery channel when API keys for other search services are unavailable.

Free Index Search is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Free Index Search comes from a repository tagged applied-microeconomics, claude-code, claude-skills, codex and codex-skills.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Free Index Search channel (Stage 4e) — keyless OpenAlex / Crossref / Semantic Scholar

A zero-key discovery channel: it runs the Stage-0 query list against the free, keyless keyword-search endpoints of OpenAlex, Crossref, and Semantic Scholar and normalizes the real records into the pipeline schema. Together with the agent web-search channel (Stage 4d) it is the "only Claude Code" search fallback — no search account or API key required.

Unlike web search, this is a plain subprocess (it calls keyless HTTP APIs), so it runs the same way in any context.

When to use

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Free Index Search

What else does kennethkhoocy publish alongside Free Index Search?
Free Index Search is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from kennethkhoocy/applied-micro-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Adversarial Empirical Review, Annotator Input Parity Check and AsyncOpenAI Concurrency Fix. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Free Index Search does, and is maintained by kennethkhoocy in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the kennethkhoocy/applied-micro-skills page.
How does Free Index Search compare to other Automation skills?
Free Index Search ranks #1426 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Free Index Search against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.