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.
Before you install
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- SKILL.md size
- 7.1 KB (about 1,806 tokens of context each time it loads)
- License
- ISC
- Source on GitHub
- firecrawl/firecrawl-workflows
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Install
npx skills add firecrawl/firecrawl-workflows@firecrawl-research-papersRuns in a terminal with Node.js 18 or newer. Add -y to skip the prompts and -g to install for every project instead of this one.
Install for your agent
npx skills add firecrawl/firecrawl-workflows@firecrawl-research-papers --agent claude-code -y- Project install writes to
.claude/skills/firecrawl-research-papers- Global install writes to
~/.claude/skills/firecrawl-research-papers
Start a new session afterwards so the agent picks the skill up. In Claude Code you can also call it directly with /firecrawl-research-papers.
What it 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…
Excerpt from the skill's own SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub before installing: skills run with your agent's permissions.
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