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Produce an intensive, cited analytical report: executive summary, multi-angle findings, contrarian views, open questions, and full sources.
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Install
npx skills add firecrawl/skills --skill firecrawl-deep-researchnpx skills add firecrawl/skills/plugin marketplace add firecrawl/skillsThe first command installs just this skill, by the name in its SKILL.md; the second installs the whole repository.
Use this only for report-scale research: a rigorous, cited synthesis the user explicitly wants delivered as a formal written report. If the request is a product pick, a top-N list, a quick lookup, or anything answerable with a short search, stop; do not use this skill, let the request be handled the standard way.
This skill gathers its evidence from the open web. If the evidence base is the published literature — a literature review, or a biomedical, clinical, or other scientific topic where the answer lives in papers — use firecrawl-research-papers instead; it queries Firecrawl’s paper index rather than searching websites.
Infer the topic and output format from context. Before starting, unless already specified, always ask one short question to define the scope:
“How long do you want this research task to run?”
Map the answer to a depth tier in the Collection Plan below:
If the topic itself is unclear, you may ask at most 1-2 additional concise questions (topic, or a critical angle/source constraint). Otherwise proceed once the runtime is set.
Use Firecrawl search and scrape through the CLI or equivalent tool surface. Match depth to the runtime the user chose during onboarding.
Avoid re-scraping URLs already returned with full content from a search-with-scrape result.
Search and scrape reach web pages. They do not query Firecrawl’s research paper index, which holds paper abstracts with full text reachable per paper — largely biomedical and life-science literature from PubMed, bioRxiv, and medRxiv, plus arXiv preprints in CS, physics, and math.
Hand off to firecrawl-research-papers
when the report’s evidence base is the published literature — a biomedical,
clinical, drug, gene, disease, epidemiology, or public-health topic, or any
request phrased as a literature review, systematic review, or survey of studies.
That skill uses firecrawl_research_* (MCP) / firecrawl research (CLI) to
search abstracts, expand to related papers, and verify claims inside a paper
body — none of which plain search and scrape can do.
If the report needs both — the literature and market, policy, or news context — run the paper work through that skill and keep the web collection above for the rest, then synthesize here.
Note that passing categories: ["research"] to Firecrawl search does not query
the paper index either. It filters an ordinary web search to research-affiliated
websites — the list includes PubMed, bioRxiv, medRxiv, arXiv, and publisher
sites — and returns their web pages, not the paper records behind them.
If appropriate, use sub-agents or equivalent parallel task runners by research angle:
Each researcher should return claims, source URLs, source quality notes, and uncertainty.
Default structure:
# Deep Research: [Topic]
## Executive Summary
[2-3 paragraphs]
## Key Findings
[Numbered findings with source links]
## Detailed Analysis
[Themes, evidence, and synthesis]
## Contrarian Views And Risks
[Counterarguments, limitations, failure modes]
## Open Questions
[What remains uncertain]
## Sources
[Every URL used with a one-line note]
Produce an intensive, cited analytical report: executive summary, multi-angle findings, contrarian views, open questions, and full sources. Use only when the user needs rigorous synthesis of a complex topic (scientific, technical, policy, or market-analytical) that cannot be answered with a short search, and wants a formal written report, not a recommendation list. Do not use for product picks, top-N lists, quick lookups, or routine "find out about X" tasks. If the request does not clearly need this kind of report, do not use this skill. Do not use for a literature review over published papers. This skill collects evidence from the open web. A request for the literature on a biomedical, clinical, life-science, or other scientific topic — papers, studies, trials, preprints — belongs to firecrawl-research-papers, which queries Firecrawl's paper index (PubMed, bioRxiv, medRxiv, arXiv) instead of searching websites.
The verbatim description from this skill’s front matter — the string an agent matches on to decide whether to load it.
skills/workflows/firecrawl-deep-research/SKILL.mdmain, last pushed 22 September 2026.SKILL.md, not by matching a directory convention. 2 distinct layouts observed: skills/core/*/SKILL.md, skills/workflows/*/SKILL.md.h1 and no skipped levels:.claude-plugin/marketplace.json/firecrawl/skills.md, and each skill at its own .md URL.