firecrawl-research-papers
firecrawl-research-papers is the official agent skill of firecrawl published by firecrawl, listed under research. It lives in the firecrawl/skills repository, which has 138 GitHub stars and is licensed under ISC; we last read it on 2026-09-16.
Firecrawl Research Papers finds and synthesizes research papers, whitepapers, PDFs, and technical reports from biomedical and life-science literature sources like PubMed, bioRxiv, and medRxiv, as well as preprints from arXiv in computer science, physics, and mathematics. It is used for literature reviews, systematic reviews, and scholarly synthesis.
Install
skills is a generic installer for any repository of Claude agent skills -- it reads firecrawl/skills’s own structure rather than assuming one, the same way this page reads the skill’s own SKILL.md rather than assuming a format.
npx skills add firecrawl/skills
What it connects to
Unverified means a mention in the skill’s own description, not a citation. A wrong claim here costs nothing to correct and nothing to trust yet.
Maintenance
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.
firecrawl-research-papers compared with similar skills
| Skill | Publisher | What it does | Repo stars | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| firecrawl-research-papers (this page) | firecrawl | Find and synthesize research papers, whitepapers, PDFs, technical reports, and academic sources with Firecraw… | 138 | 2026-10-22 |
| firecrawl(same repository) | firecrawl | Any live-web task via the Firecrawl CLI — including ordinary web research: searching the web, reading or extr… | 138 | 2026-10-22 |
| firecrawl-company-directories(same repository) | firecrawl | Extract structured company lists with Firecrawl from any page or site that lists companies: accelerator batch… | 138 | 2026-10-22 |
| firecrawl-deep-research(same repository) | firecrawl | Produce an intensive, cited analytical report: executive summary, multi-angle findings, contrarian views, ope… | 138 | 2026-10-22 |
| firecrawl-lead-research(same repository) | firecrawl | Enrich and research the people and companies the user names or supplies with Firecrawl Alexandria data: backg… | 138 | 2026-10-22 |
| firecrawl-research-index(same repository) | firecrawl | Find the papers that answer a research query in Firecrawl's research paper index — a corpus of paper abstract… | 138 | 2026-10-22 |
| firecrawl-search(same repository) | firecrawl | Find web sources with query-relevant page excerpts and optional full-page content, and discover workflows, da… | 138 | 2026-10-22 |
Skills from the same repository first, then others for this job by repository stars. Figures are from each repository when we last read it.
Common questions about firecrawl-research-papers
- What does firecrawl-research-papers do?
- Firecrawl Research Papers finds and synthesizes research papers, whitepapers, PDFs, and technical reports from biomedical and life-science literature sources like PubMed, bioRxiv, and medRxiv, as well as preprints from arXiv in computer science, physics, and mathematics. It is used for literature reviews, systematic reviews, and scholarly synthesis.
- How do I install firecrawl-research-papers?
- Run npx skills add firecrawl/skills. The skills installer reads the repository’s own structure, so it works for any repository of agent skills.
- Who publishes firecrawl-research-papers?
- firecrawl. It is named as the official skill of firecrawl.
- Is firecrawl-research-papers maintained, and what licence does it use?
- Its repository has 138 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is listed. Its last commit we recorded was on 2026-10-22. The repository declares the ISC licence.
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