Firecrawl Research

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Requests to research topics using FireCrawl
• Enrich notes with web sources
• Search and scrape information
• Write scientific/academic papers

Example prompts

• “/firecrawl-research”

Requirements

• Python 3
• A credential in FIRECRAWL_API_KEY

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

1. 1Topic Extraction
2. 2Search and Scrape
3. 3Output Generation

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 3b88261. 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

  Ships 3 files in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • python
  • pip

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use pip, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

  • FIRECRAWL_API_KEY

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Firecrawl Research loads about 2.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 109 tokens; SKILL.md has 747 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~109

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~2.2k

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

• NoteMentions a .env fileSKILL.md:86

  1. Copy `.env.example` to `.env`:

• NoteMentions a .env fileSKILL.md:88

  cp .env.example .env

• NoteMentions a .env fileSKILL.md:96

  ally loads the API key from the skill's `.env` file.

• NoteMentions a .env fileSKILL.md:173

  Create `.env` file in skill folder with `FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=...`

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); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from glebis/claude-skills at commit 3b88261, republished under its MIT licence (© glebis). 747 words, ~2,189 tokens.

name

firecrawl-research

description

This skill should be used when the user requests to research topics using FireCrawl, enrich notes with web sources, search and scrape information, or write scientific/academic papers. It extracts research topics from markdown files, creates research documents with scraped sources, generates BibTeX bibliographies from research results, and provides Pandoc/MyST templates for academic writing with citation management.

## Spatial Reasoning in AI
### Computer Vision Applications

- [research] Large Language Models for robotics
- [search] Theory of Mind in autonomous driving

python scripts/firecrawl_research.py research.md

python scripts/firecrawl_research.py research.md ./output

python scripts/firecrawl_research.py research.md ./output 3

# AI Research Topics

## Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models

- [research] Embodied AI for robotics
- [research] Computer Use Agents

python scripts/firecrawl_research.py ai-research.md ./research_output 5

research_output/
├── Spatial_Reasoning_in_Vision-Language_Models_20251122_140530.md
├── Embodied_AI_for_robotics_20251122_140542.md
└── Computer_Use_Agents_20251122_140554.md

python scripts/firecrawl_research.py my-notes.md

python scripts/firecrawl_research.py topics.md ./research_results

python scripts/firecrawl_research.py topics.md ./deep_research 10

python scripts/firecrawl_research.py topics.md ~/Brains/brain/Research

pip install python-dotenv requests

cp assets/templates/pandoc-scholarly-paper.md my-paper.md
# or
cp assets/templates/myst-scientific-paper.md my-paper.md

python scripts/convert_academic.py my-paper.md pdf
python scripts/convert_academic.py my-paper.md docx
python scripts/convert_academic.py my-paper.md pdf --myst  # For MyST

python scripts/generate_bibliography.py research_output/*.md -o references.bib

# 1. Research topics
python scripts/firecrawl_research.py topics.md ./research

# 2. Generate bibliography
python scripts/generate_bibliography.py research/*.md -o refs.bib

# 3. Copy template
cp assets/templates/pandoc-scholarly-paper.md paper.md

# 4. Edit paper.md (add content, cite sources)

# 5. Convert to PDF
python scripts/convert_academic.py paper.md pdf

Recent research [@Smith2024] shows...
Multiple studies [@Jones2023; @Brown2024] indicate...

Recent research {cite}`Smith2024` shows...
Multiple studies {cite}`Jones2023,Brown2024` indicate...

© glebis, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 9 other files (scripts, assets) in firecrawl-research of glebis/claude-skills.

• SKILL.md
• .claude-plugin/plugin.json
• .env.example
• assets/references.bib
• assets/templates/myst-scientific-paper.md
• assets/templates/pandoc-scholarly-paper.md
• requirements.txt
• scripts/convert_academic.py
• scripts/firecrawl_research.py
• scripts/generate_bibliography.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 3b88261