firecrawl-research-papers

Find and synthesize research papers, whitepapers, PDFs, technical reports, and academic sources with Firecrawl. Use when the user wants a literature review, paper summary, research landscape, or sourced synthesis from PDFs and scholarly/industry publications.

npx skills add https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-workflows --skill firecrawl-research-papers

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

Search for papers, PDFs, whitepapers, technical reports, and research blogs. Scrape PDF URLs directly when available; Firecrawl can extract PDFs.

Target source types:

  • academic papers from arXiv, university sites, ACM/IEEE pages where accessible
  • industry reports and whitepapers
  • company research blogs
  • technical articles and conference summaries

Parallel Work

If appropriate, use sub-agents or equivalent parallel task runners:

  • Academic Papers researcher
  • Industry Reports researcher
  • Technical Articles researcher
  • Synthesis and citation reviewer

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.

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