Firecrawl Research Patterns

Programmatic patterns for using self-hosted Firecrawl in research workflows — search, scrape, route academic papers, run recursive deep research, and persist raw results for future re-analysis. Also covers self-hosted deployment, health checks, and recovery.

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: