Paper research

Use Firecrawl's paper-index MCP tools for scientific literature, including biomedical and arXiv papers. If a tool is deferred, discover it with the host's tool search. Ordinary firecrawl_search with the research category filters web sources; it does not query the same paper index.

• firecrawl_research_search_papers finds papers from a natural-language query. Add author, category, or date filters when the request requires them.
• firecrawl_research_inspect_paper retrieves canonical metadata for a known paperId. Reuse identifiers returned by search or supplied by the user.
• firecrawl_research_related_papers expands from seed_ids using the requested relationship: similar work, citing papers, or references. Its intent states what the related work should address.
• firecrawl_research_read_paper retrieves full-text passages relevant to a question about one paperId.

Choose the operations needed for the question; a known paper does not require another discovery search. Verify substantive claims with relevant passages when available. If full text is unavailable, label conclusions based on the abstract or metadata and use firecrawl_scrape on an accessible source URL when helpful.

Cite paper URLs or persistent identifiers. Distinguish a paper's claims from your synthesis and do not describe a partial search as an exhaustive review. Respect the user's source and tool choices. Report connection or authentication errors.