Agent Skill
Firecrawl Research Papers skill
firecrawl-research-papersfirecrawl/skillsskills/workflows/firecrawl-research-papers/SKILL.md
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.
always on
153 tokname + description
once used
1,366 tokSKILL.md body
bundled files
0
repo stars
135GitHub
Install the Firecrawl Research Papers skill
Skills CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others)
npx skills add https://github.com/firecrawl/skills --skill firecrawl-research-papers
Claude Code, by hand (all projects)
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/firecrawl/skills.git /tmp/skills mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills cp -R /tmp/skills/skills/workflows/firecrawl-research-papers ~/.claude/skills/firecrawl-research-papers
For one project only, copy the folder into .claude/skills/ in that project instead. The agent picks it up when a task matches its description.
What it costs your context
Agent Skills load in three steps. Tokens counted with the o200k tokenizer; your model's count will differ a little.
| When | What loads | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Every session | Name and description | 153 tok |
| When the agent uses it | The SKILL.md instructions | 1,366 tok |
| Only if opened | No bundled files | — |
Until it is used, firecrawl-research-papers costs about 8.9× less than the median MCP server we measured (1,363 tokens on every turn). Installing all 32 skills from firecrawl/skills would load 2,561 tokens of descriptions. Skills vs MCP study
Checks
Our checks found nothing to flag: it follows the Agent Skills specification's naming and size guidelines and doesn't pipe downloads into a shell.
Checked 2026-10-22 · method
What's inside
The headings of its SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub.
- Firecrawl Research Papers
- Onboarding Interview
- Firecrawl Collection Plan
- Parallel Work
- Final Deliverable
- Quality Bar
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