firecrawl-deep-research

firecrawl-deep-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from firecrawl/firecrawl-workflows. It costs 218 tokens per session (1,274 once invoked), scanned A, original, ISC.

A workflow for producing a detailed research report from information found on the public web, with citations, a summary, multiple viewpoints, unanswered questions, and a complete source list. It is intended for complex scientific, technical, policy, or market topics.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for formal, in-depth research reports such as technology reviews, policy analysis, scientific topic overviews, or market studies. It is not intended for quick lookups, product picks, or literature searches that belong in research papers.
Why use it?
It helps when a short web search cannot provide enough evidence or synthesis. The workflow structures scattered findings into a report and includes sources readers can check.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the firecrawl-workflows plugin — 16 skills shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/firecrawl/firecrawl-workflows/firecrawl-deep-research
Any agent
npx skills add firecrawl/firecrawl-workflows --skill firecrawl-deep-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-workflows

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install firecrawl-workflows, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for firecrawl-deep-research

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/firecrawl/firecrawl-workflows/firecrawl-deep-research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/firecrawl/firecrawl-workflows/firecrawl-deep-research.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 218 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,274 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00218 $0.01274
Opus 5 $0.00109 $0.00637
Sonnet 5 $0.00044 $0.00255
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00127

Measured 5d ago against content hash dfd224ee3eed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

firecrawl-deep-research scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/firecrawl-deep-research/SKILL.md · 145 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 145 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Firecrawl Deep Research

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.

Onboarding Interview

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:

  • A few minutes → Quick
  • ~10-15 minutes → Thorough
  • Longer / no limit → Exhaustive

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.

Firecrawl Collection Plan

Use Firecrawl search and scrape through the CLI or equivalent tool surface. Match depth to the runtime the user chose during onboarding.

  • Quick (~a few minutes): search 3-5 queries and scrape 5-10 high-quality sources.
  • Thorough (~10-15 minutes): search 5-10 queries from different angles and scrape 15-25 sources.
  • Exhaustive (longer): search 10+ queries and scrape 25+ sources, including primary sources, research papers, expert views, and contrarian sources.

Avoid re-scraping URLs already returned with full content from a search-with-scrape result.

When Published Papers Are The Evidence

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.

Read the full file on GitHub · 145 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 145 lines · 218 tokens per session scan A dfd224ee3eed

Subscribe to this mod's changes

firecrawl-deep-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository firecrawl/firecrawl-workflows (151 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed ISC. It adds 218 tokens to every session and 1,274 once invoked, about $0.0011 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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