Firecrawl Research Patterns

Programmatic patterns for using Firecrawl in research workflows — search, scrape, route academic papers, run recursive deep research, and persist raw results for future re-analysis.

Use the public Firecrawl API. There is no self-hosted instance. POST https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/scrape answers without an API key, which covers the low-volume, occasional conversions this repo actually does. Rate limits and queueing are acceptable — do not stand up a private deployment to avoid them.

For archiving AI chat conversations (ChatGPT/Gemini shares), see Skill(gh-tools:research-archival).

Self-Evolving Skill: This skill improves through use. If instructions are wrong, parameters drifted, or a workaround was needed — fix this file immediately, don't defer. Only update for real, reproducible issues.

FIRST — TodoWrite Task Templates

MANDATORY: Select and load the appropriate template before any research work.

Intent routing — AI chat share URLs (chatgpt / gemini / claude)

AI chat share URLs (chatgpt.com/share/*, chat.openai.com/share/*, gemini.google.com/share/*, g.co/gemini/share/*, claude.ai/share/*, claude.ai/chat/*) can be processed by either this skill or Skill(gh-tools:research-archival). Pick by intent, not URL pattern: