Answer with research papers

Use this workflow for answers grounded in published research, including findings newer than your training data. For a broader investigation that also needs web sources beyond papers, use firecrawl-deep-research. Reuse the evidence already available rather than repeat retrieval.

Before answering a research-dependent question, search the paper index; for a named or supplied paper, inspect or read it directly. If a tool is deferred, discover it with the host's tool search. Check publication dates against the question's time frame.

Use the paper index for scientific literature, including biomedical and arXiv papers. Ordinary firecrawl_search with the research category filters web sources; it does not query the same paper index.