Deep Research (Firecrawl)

Purpose

Deliver verifiable research reports with explicit citations, clear fact-vs-analysis boundaries, and user-selectable depth.

Tooling requirements

• Use Firecrawl MCP for web retrieval:
  • firecrawl:firecrawl_search for discovery
  • firecrawl:firecrawl_scrape for page extraction
  • firecrawl:firecrawl_map for URL discovery on known domains
  • firecrawl:firecrawl_crawl for controlled multi-page capture
  • firecrawl:firecrawl_agent for autonomous broad collection when scope is unclear
• Prefer parallel retrieval whenever tasks are independent.
• Hard-stop policy: if Firecrawl MCP is unavailable, pause and ask the user to re-enable it. Do not switch to other web retrieval tools.

When to use