Agent skill · firecrawl
firecrawl-research-papers
Find and synthesize research papers, whitepapers, PDFs, technical reports, and academic sources with Firecrawl Research, using semantic paper search, related-paper expansion, and in-body verification over Firecrawl's paper index — largely biomedical and life-science literature from PubMed, bioRxiv, and medRxiv, plus arXiv preprints in CS, physics, and math. Use when the user wants a literature review, systematic review, survey of studies, paper summary, research landscape, or sourced synthesis from scholarly and industry publications, including clinical, drug, gene, disease, epidemiology, and public-health topics. Prefer this over a general web-research workflow whenever the evidence base is published papers rather than web pages.
What it needs
About 4k tokens when loaded.
What this skill does
Firecrawl Research Papers Use this to create a sourced literature review. Onboarding Interview Infer the topic, source constraints, target count, and output format from context. If the topic is clear, proceed immediately. Ask at most 1-3 concise questions only if blocked, such as the topic, target paper count, or required venue/date/method constraints. Firecrawl Collection Plan Use Firecrawl Research through the CLI, MCP, or equivalent Firecrawl tool surface as the primary path for paper discovery and verification. Fall back to general Firecrawl search and scrape for whitepapers, technical reports, research blogs, leaderboards, or facts outside the paper corpus. What the paper index holds: paper abstracts, with full text reachable per paper. Its largest share is biomedical and life-science literature — PubMed journal articles plus bioRxiv and medRxiv preprints — so clinical, drug, gene, disease, epidemiology, and public-health questions are in scope. arXiv preprints cover computer science, physics, and mathematics. Coverage outside those sources is thinner, and the web tools below are the fallback there. Core tools: MCP: firecrawlresearchsearchpapers(query, k?) CLI: firecrawl research search-papers <query> [--k <number>] Semantic search over paper abstracts. Start here for most paper-finding queries, and retry with alternate framing when results are thin or too narrow. MCP: firecrawlresearchrelatedpapers(seedids, intent, mode?, k?) CLI: firecrawl research related-papers <seedIds...> --intent <intent> [--mode <similar citers references>] [--k <number>] Expand from strong seed papers into similar work, citing papers, or references. Use this to find the relevant paper family, not just the first matching result. MCP: firecrawlresearchinspectpaper(id) CLI: firecrawl research inspect-paper <id> Fetch canonical metadata for a candidate paper: title, abstract, authors, categories, source ids, and dates. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills firecrawl/firecrawl-research-papers--12df1a