Agent skill · firecrawl
firecrawl-deep-research
Produce an intensive, cited analytical report: executive summary, multi-angle findings, contrarian views, open questions, and full sources. Use only when the user needs rigorous synthesis of a complex topic (scientific, technical, policy, or market-analytical) that cannot be answered with a short search, and wants a formal written report, not a recommendation list. Do not use for product picks, top-N lists, quick lookups, or routine "find out about X" tasks. If the request does not clearly need this kind of report, do not use this skill. Do not use for a literature review over published papers. This skill collects evidence from the open web. A request for the literature on a biomedical, clinical, life-science, or other scientific topic — papers, studies, trials, preprints — belongs to firecrawl-research-papers, which queries Firecrawl's paper index (PubMed, bioRxiv, medRxiv, arXiv) instead of searching websites.
What it needs
About 3k tokens when loaded.
What this skill does
Firecrawl Deep Research Use this only for report-scale research: a rigorous, cited synthesis the user explicitly wants delivered as a formal written report. If the request is a product pick, a top-N list, a quick lookup, or anything answerable with a short search, stop; do not use this skill, let the request be handled the standard way. This skill gathers its evidence from the open web. If the evidence base is the published literature — a literature review, or a biomedical, clinical, or other scientific topic where the answer lives in papers — use firecrawl-research-papers instead; it queries Firecrawl's paper index rather than searching websites. Onboarding Interview Infer the topic and output format from context. Before starting, unless already specified, always ask one short question to define the scope: "How long do you want this research task to run?" Map the answer to a depth tier in the Collection Plan below: A few minutes → Quick ~10-15 minutes → Thorough Longer / no limit → Exhaustive If the topic itself is unclear, you may ask at most 1-2 additional concise questions (topic, or a critical angle/source constraint). Otherwise proceed once the runtime is set. Firecrawl Collection Plan Use Firecrawl search and scrape through the CLI or equivalent tool surface. Match depth to the runtime the user chose during onboarding. Quick (~a few minutes): search 3-5 queries and scrape 5-10 high-quality sources. Thorough (~10-15 minutes): search 5-10 queries from different angles and scrape 15-25 sources. Exhaustive (longer): search 10+ queries and scrape 25+ sources, including primary sources, research papers, expert views, and contrarian sources. Avoid re-scraping URLs already returned with full content from a search-with-scrape result. When Published Papers Are The Evidence Search and scrape reach web pages. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills firecrawl/firecrawl-deep-research--506d3a