Skills Guide

Fireflies Search

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Performs full-text search across Fireflies meeting transcripts. Helps find specific content, speakers, questions, or task-related mentions across many meetings efficiently.

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6/2/2026
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#fireflies#transcripts-search#meeting-notes#full-text-search

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Automated summary

Full-text search across meeting transcripts using the Fireflies API.

Strengths

  • Fast search across many transcripts with a single API call.
  • Relevant filters: questions, tasks, speaker, time period.
  • Multiple output formats (plain text, table, JSON) for different needs.

Limitations

  • Requires a valid Fireflies API key set as environment variable.
  • Does not replace deep analysis of a single transcript.
  • Only covers meetings indexed in Fireflies.
When to use it

When you need to quickly find specific information (decision, question, action item) across meeting history.

When not to use it

When you need to explore the full content of a single meeting or perform offline analysis.

Security analysis

Caution
Quality score95/100

The skill runs a known npm package (`fireflies-api`) with a fixed command (`search`) and constrained options. While the command itself is read-only and not destructive, the use of `npm exec` to pull and run a third-party package introduces a supply chain risk. The skill does not attempt to exfiltrate the API key or perform destructive actions, but the package could theoretically be malicious. Given the legitimate nature of the Fireflies API, the risk is moderate.

Findings
  • •Executes third-party npm package via `npm exec`, introducing supply chain risk.
  • •Requires `FIREFLIES_API_KEY` environment variable, which could be misused if the package is compromised.
How this analysis is made

Examples

Search for budget mentions
Search all transcripts for the word 'budget' and show results in a human-readable format with context.
Find questions about deadlines
Search for 'deadline' but only in questions from the last week, output as a table.
Search action items by speaker
Search for 'action item' from the last 30 days, filtered by speaker 'Alice', showing surrounding context.

name: ff-search description: Full-text search across meeting transcripts. Use when finding specific content, speakers, or questions. allowed-tools: Bash(npm exec --yes --package=fireflies-api -- fireflies-api search *)

Fireflies Search

Full-text search across meeting transcripts.

Command

npm exec --yes --package=fireflies-api -- fireflies-api search <query> [options]

Options

Date Shortcuts (prefer these over --from/--to):

  • --today - Today's transcripts
  • --yesterday - Yesterday's transcripts
  • --last-week - Last 7 days
  • --last-month - Last 30 days
  • --days <n> - Last N days

Search Filters:

  • --speaker <name> - Filter by speaker name
  • --questions - Search only questions
  • --tasks - Search only task-related content
  • --context - Include surrounding context
  • --limit <n> - Number of results
  • --from <date> - Start date (YYYY-MM-DD) - only if shortcuts don't fit
  • --to <date> - End date (YYYY-MM-DD) - only if shortcuts don't fit
  • -o, --output <format> - Output format: json, jsonl, table, tsv, plain

Examples

# Basic search
npm exec --yes --package=fireflies-api -- fireflies-api search "budget"

# Search with speaker filter
npm exec --yes --package=fireflies-api -- fireflies-api search "proposal" --speaker "John"

# Search questions from last week
npm exec --yes --package=fireflies-api -- fireflies-api search "deadline" --questions --last-week

# Search with context
npm exec --yes --package=fireflies-api -- fireflies-api search "action item" --context --limit 20

Instructions

  1. Verify API key is set:

    test -n "$FIREFLIES_API_KEY" && echo "Ready" || echo "ERROR: Set FIREFLIES_API_KEY"

  2. Execute the search command with the user's query and any relevant filters.

  3. Suggest appropriate filters based on the user's intent (e.g., --questions for finding Q&A).

Usage Tips

Output Format:

  • Use -o plain for human-readable output with context
  • Use -o table for compact tabular view
  • Only use -o json if user needs structured data

When to Use Search:

  • Finding specific content across many transcripts (efficient - single call)
  • Finding who said something, questions asked, or action items mentioned
  • More efficient than listing transcripts + getting each one

From the file to a first result

The download contains exactly the content displayed on this page. This copy may differ from the latest version in the source repository.

View the source and supporting files

This download contains SKILL.md only. Any scripts, references, templates and dependencies are not included. Get the required files from the source, preserving their directory structure, before continuing.

1. Download the file

Download SKILL.md

From the root of a test project, save the file as .skill-downloads/fireflies-search-mmh8qqci/SKILL.md, or use the command below. This folder is for inspecting the skill before installation.

Command for macOS/Linux or WSL: requires a POSIX shell and curl. On Windows without WSL, use the download button and create the folder manually.

mkdir -p '.skill-downloads/fireflies-search-mmh8qqci' && curl --fail --show-error --location 'https://skills-guides.com/api/skills/fireflies-search-mmh8qqci/download' --output '.skill-downloads/fireflies-search-mmh8qqci/SKILL.md.part' && mv '.skill-downloads/fireflies-search-mmh8qqci/SKILL.md.part' '.skill-downloads/fireflies-search-mmh8qqci/SKILL.md'

2. Check prerequisites

Read SKILL.md before using it. If it references scripts or external services, inspect them and prepare the required access in your test environment.

Tools declared by the author (check availability in your agent): Bash(npm exec --yes --package=fireflies-api -- fireflies-api search *)

No recognized prerequisites section in this file. This does not mean it is self-contained: libraries, tools and access requirements may be mentioned elsewhere in the content or source repository.

The platforms on this page are catalog indications. The paths below follow tool documentation; they do not prove this skill has been run in those tools. No minimum tool version is confirmed for this listing.

3. Load the skill

After inspection, copy the complete folder into your project using one of the commands below, then open a new tool session. The command stops if a folder with the same name already exists: compare the files before replacing it.

Claude Code
test -f '.skill-downloads/fireflies-search-mmh8qqci/SKILL.md' && test -s '.skill-downloads/fireflies-search-mmh8qqci/SKILL.md' && mkdir -p '.claude/skills' && test ! -e '.claude/skills/ff-search' && cp -R '.skill-downloads/fireflies-search-mmh8qqci' '.claude/skills/ff-search'

OpenSkills

OpenSkills must already be installed. The local install/read procedure is checked with OpenSkills 1.5.0, which requires Node.js ≥ 20.6.0. Catalog slugs are not resolved automatically.

Official OpenSkills installation
openskills install './.skill-downloads/fireflies-search-mmh8qqci'

openskills read 'fireflies-search-mmh8qqci'

Reading should display the installed file content and its base directory. It does not run the skill or install its dependencies.

For an agent that reads AGENTS.md, then sync the index. This command changes AGENTS.md: review the diff before using it.

openskills sync

Manual method or another tool: attach SKILL.md to a conversation, or open it in an agent that can read files. Include any required supporting resources. No universal folder is recognized by every tool.

4. Try a first task

Use a short, synthetic input: an API endpoint, a small document or an interface brief. In a new conversation, attach the file or give the agent its path, then adapt this request:

Read .skill-downloads/fireflies-search-mmh8qqci/SKILL.md and apply its instructions to this example: [describe a test input]. Identify any missing files, dependencies or access. Produce the result requested by the skill without inventing data or running unreviewed scripts.

Expected result: output matching the skill instructions, or a precise list of missing prerequisites. A read confirmation alone does not validate a first use. If an external resource is unavailable, that path remains untested.

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