Academic Search and Citation Router
Yuan1z0825/nature-skills
Finds papers across literature sources, verifies and converts citations, builds MeSH strategies and audits independent citations of a paper.
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…
Install Firecrawl Research Papers
$ npx skills add firecrawl/skills --skill firecrawl-research-papers -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install firecrawl/skills firecrawl-research-papers --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/firecrawl/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/workflows/firecrawl-research-papers .claude/skills/firecrawl-research-papers && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "firecrawl-research-papers" agent skill from https://github.com/firecrawl/skills/tree/main/skills/workflows/firecrawl-research-papers into .claude/skills/firecrawl-research-papers/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "firecrawl-research-papers", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/firecrawl/skills/tree/main/skills/workflows/firecrawl-research-papersType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add firecrawl/skills --skill firecrawl-research-papers -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install firecrawl/skills firecrawl-research-papers --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/firecrawl/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/workflows/firecrawl-research-papers .agents/skills/firecrawl-research-papers && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "firecrawl-research-papers" agent skill from https://github.com/firecrawl/skills/tree/main/skills/workflows/firecrawl-research-papers into .agents/skills/firecrawl-research-papers/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "firecrawl-research-papers", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add firecrawl/skills --skill firecrawl-research-papers -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install firecrawl/skills firecrawl-research-papers --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/firecrawl/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/workflows/firecrawl-research-papers .cursor/skills/firecrawl-research-papers && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "firecrawl-research-papers" agent skill from https://github.com/firecrawl/skills/tree/main/skills/workflows/firecrawl-research-papers into .cursor/skills/firecrawl-research-papers/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "firecrawl-research-papers", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/firecrawl/skills.git --path skills/workflows/firecrawl-research-papers--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add firecrawl/skills --skill firecrawl-research-papers -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install firecrawl/skills firecrawl-research-papers --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/firecrawl/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/workflows/firecrawl-research-papers .gemini/skills/firecrawl-research-papers && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "firecrawl-research-papers" agent skill from https://github.com/firecrawl/skills/tree/main/skills/workflows/firecrawl-research-papers into .gemini/skills/firecrawl-research-papers/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "firecrawl-research-papers", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install firecrawl/skills firecrawl-research-papersInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add firecrawl/skills --skill firecrawl-research-papers -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/firecrawl/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/workflows/firecrawl-research-papers .github/skills/firecrawl-research-papers && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "firecrawl-research-papers" agent skill from https://github.com/firecrawl/skills/tree/main/skills/workflows/firecrawl-research-papers into .github/skills/firecrawl-research-papers/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "firecrawl-research-papers", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add firecrawl/skills --skill firecrawl-research-papers -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install firecrawl/skills firecrawl-research-papers --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/firecrawl/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/workflows/firecrawl-research-papers .opencode/skills/firecrawl-research-papers && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "firecrawl-research-papers" agent skill from https://github.com/firecrawl/skills/tree/main/skills/workflows/firecrawl-research-papers into .opencode/skills/firecrawl-research-papers/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "firecrawl-research-papers", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
firecrawl-research-papers- GitHub stars
- 117
- Token cost
- ~1.8k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 759 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 29
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- ISC
At a glance
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…
- The user wants a literature review
- SKILL.md covers Onboarding Interview, Firecrawl Collection Plan, Parallel Work and Final Deliverable, plus 1 more section
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
- Systematic review
What it does
Firecrawl Research Papers is an agent skill from firecrawl/skills. 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…
Its SKILL.md is about 1.8k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
It sits in Research & Science, covering Academic paper search, Web scraping and Literature review. It works with Firecrawl, arXiv, PubMed and Model Context Protocol. The licence is ISC.
When your agent uses it
- The user wants a literature review
- Systematic review
- Survey of studies
- Research landscape
Example prompts
- “/firecrawl-research-papers”
Requirements
- A credential in FIRECRAWL_API_KEY
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 5348e9e. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are markdown).
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
Firecrawl Research Papers loads about 1.8k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 192 tokens; SKILL.md has 759 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
Safety
Auto-check passed
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
SKILL.md
The full file from firecrawl/skills at commit 5348e9e, republished under its ISC licence (© firecrawl). 759 words, ~1,804 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/firecrawl-research-papers/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- firecrawl-research-papers
- description
- 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.
- license
- ISC
- metadata.author
- firecrawl
- metadata.version
- 0.1.0
- metadata.homepage
- https://www.firecrawl.dev
- metadata.source
- https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-workflows
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:
firecrawl_research_search_papers(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:
firecrawl_research_related_papers(seed_ids, 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:
firecrawl_research_inspect_paper(id)CLI:firecrawl research inspect-paper <id>Fetch canonical metadata for a candidate paper: title, abstract, authors, categories, source ids, and dates. - MCP:
firecrawl_research_read_paper(id, question)CLI:firecrawl research read-paper <id> --question <question>Verify a specific claim or constraint inside one paper, such as method, reported score, benchmark, affiliation, comparison, or limitation. - MCP:
firecrawl_search(query)/firecrawl_scrape(url)CLI:firecrawl search <query>/firecrawl scrape <url>Use for web-only context: benchmark leaderboards, rankings, reports, whitepapers, research blogs, and source pages outside the paper index.
Not the paper index, despite the name: passing categories: ["research"] to
firecrawl_search (CLI firecrawl search <query> --categories research)
filters an ordinary web search to research-affiliated websites — the list
includes PubMed, bioRxiv, medRxiv, arXiv, and publisher sites — and returns
page results from them. It reaches those sites' web pages; what it does not do
is query their paper records in the index above, so there is no abstract
search, no related-paper or citation-graph expansion, no canonical paper
metadata, and no in-body passages. Use it when a web search is what you want
and those sites should be weighted in the same call; use the
firecrawl_research_* tools for paper work.
Match the approach to the query:
- Single named paper: run one paper search, then inspect or read the paper if metadata or body verification is needed.
- Paper by description, method, or topic family: search for strong anchors, then expand with related papers and keep close neighbors.
- Enumeration queries, such as papers that do a task or benchmark a method: search multiple framings, expand several strong anchors, and re-seed from newly found relevant papers.
- Papers that use or exhibit a property: start from the defining paper or strongest anchor, expand via similar, citers, or references, and use read-paper to verify the property.
- Superlatives and leaderboards: use general web search or scrape to find the ranking, then map top entries back to papers with paper search.
- Author, organization, venue, date, or methodology constraints: verify with inspect-paper metadata or read-paper before keeping a candidate.
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Target source types:
- biomedical and life-science literature from PubMed, with bioRxiv and medRxiv preprints for work that has not appeared in a journal yet
- arXiv preprints in computer science, physics, and mathematics
- academic papers from university sites and ACM/IEEE pages where accessible
- industry reports and whitepapers
- company research blogs
- technical articles and conference summaries
Principles:
- When in doubt, include the relevant paper family rather than only the single best result.
- Use related-paper expansion to avoid stopping at one strong hit.
- Use read-paper to verify load-bearing constraints, not to summarize every candidate.
- Drop only clearly off-topic papers.
Parallel Work
If appropriate, use sub-agents or equivalent parallel task runners:
- Academic Papers researcher
- Biomedical and Life Sciences researcher, for PubMed journal articles and bioRxiv/medRxiv preprints on a clinical, drug, gene, disease, epidemiology, or public-health topic
- Industry Reports researcher
- Technical Articles researcher
- Synthesis and citation reviewer
Split by source or sub-topic, not by tool. Give each researcher the same paper tools and let the topic decide which part of the corpus answers.
Final Deliverable
# Literature Review: [Topic]
## Abstract
[2-3 paragraph summary]
## Key Papers
[Title, authors, source URL, key findings, methodology, relevance]
## Themes And Consensus
[What sources agree on]
## Open Questions And Debates
[Disagreements and unresolved questions]
## Emerging Trends
[Recent developments]
## Sources
[Organized by paper/report/article]
## Rerun Inputs
workflow: firecrawl-research-papers
topic: [topic]
target_count: [number]
output: [markdown/brief]Quality Bar
- Every major claim should trace to a source.
- Note inaccessible or failed PDFs.
- Distinguish peer-reviewed work from blogs and vendor reports.
© firecrawl, ISC. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
Files
Just SKILL.md in skills/workflows/firecrawl-research-papers of firecrawl/skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 5348e9e
Compare with similar skills
Firecrawl Research Papers next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firecrawl Research Papers this skillfirecrawl/skills | 117 | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | ISC | |
| Academic Search and Citation RouterYuan1z0825/nature-skills | 47k | — | ~884 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Nature Academic Searchaiskillstore/marketplace | 430 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Literature Reviewneflibata-feng/MyArxiv-Agent | 126 | 20 repos | ~5.9k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | |
| Paper Searchopenags/paper-search-mcp | 2.8k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | |
| Arxiv MCP Serverblazickjp/arxiv-mcp-server | 3.2k | — | ~353 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 |
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What does Firecrawl Research Papers do?
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…. Firecrawl Research Papers is an agent skill from firecrawl/skills. 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.
When should I use Firecrawl Research Papers?
Firecrawl Research Papers fits situations like: the user wants a literature review; systematic review; survey of studies; research landscape.
How do I install Firecrawl Research Papers in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add firecrawl/skills --skill firecrawl-research-papers -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/workflows/firecrawl-research-papers in firecrawl/skills) into .claude/skills/firecrawl-research-papers in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Firecrawl Research Papers in Codex?
Run `npx skills add firecrawl/skills --skill firecrawl-research-papers -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/workflows/firecrawl-research-papers in firecrawl/skills) into .agents/skills/firecrawl-research-papers in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Firecrawl Research Papers in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add firecrawl/skills --skill firecrawl-research-papers -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/firecrawl-research-papers, .gemini/skills/firecrawl-research-papers, .github/skills/firecrawl-research-papers and .opencode/skills/firecrawl-research-papers in your project.
What does Firecrawl Research Papers need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Firecrawl Research Papers is instructions for the agent only. Our summary lists: A credential in FIRECRAWL_API_KEY.
Does Firecrawl Research Papers access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Firecrawl Research Papers safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does Firecrawl Research Papers use?
Firecrawl Research Papers is published under the ISC licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Firecrawl Research Papers use?
About 1.8k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.2k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to Firecrawl Research Papers?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Firecrawl Research Papers: Academic Search and Citation Router (Yuan1z0825/nature-skills, 47k stars), Nature Academic Search (aiskillstore/marketplace, 430 stars), Literature Review (neflibata-feng/MyArxiv-Agent, 126 stars) and Paper Search (openags/paper-search-mcp, 2.8k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Firecrawl Research Papers?
firecrawl (a GitHub organization) maintains it in firecrawl/skills, which has 117 GitHub stars. The repository holds 29 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.
Source: firecrawl/skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.