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Deep Research

firecrawl

Investigates an open-ended question by gathering evidence across many websites and synthesizing a formal, cited report - executive summary, multi-angle findings, contrarian views, and open questions. It is for report-scale SYNTHESIS of a complex topic from the open web, not quick lookups, top-N product lists, or literature reviews over published papers.

Situations it fits

Your team wants a short, sourced briefing on whether recent press coverage really supports the claim that urban gardening reduces city temperatures.
Deep Research. deep-research is intended for open-ended investigations that gather evidence from many public sources and produce a reasoned, referenced brief - exactly what’s asked here. The other skills focus on local data inspection, visuals, or fetching web pages and aren’t designed to synthesize a multi-source report.
The product team wants a concise dossier collating official statements, third-party tests, and inconvenient counter-evidence about a new battery chemistry trend across news sites and manufacturer blogs.
Deep Research. deep-research is suited to collecting evidence across many public sources and producing a structured briefing that weighs multiple perspectives. Scraping could help fetch pages, but it doesn’t synthesize; EDA and charting aren’t relevant to compiling and evaluating disparate web-sourced claims.
City council asked you to write a 2‑page, source-backed briefing on whether to restrict electric scooters; they want a clear summary, pros and cons drawn from many websites, and footnoted links for every claim.
Deep Research. Deep-research (firecrawl) is the right choice because this is a synthesis task: gather evidence from many online sources, weigh conflicting claims, and produce a concise, referenced briefing that highlights conclusions and open questions. The tempting distractor is web-scraping (jamditis): scraping can robustly fetch many pages, but that capability only acquires raw content - it doesn't organize arguments, evaluate credibility across sources, or produce the structured, cited memo the council needs. Chart design and EDA don't address multi-source synthesis or citation either.

6 scenarios in the bank answer to Deep Research. The rest are in the game.

Skills it gets confused with

These share a family with Deep Research, which is another way of saying they are the ones you might reach for by mistake.

Knowing what Deep Research does is the easy half. Telling it apart from the others under time pressure is the game.

Today's session

Deep Research is part of firecrawl/firecrawl-workflows. Licence: ISC. The description above was written for this game, not taken from the skill.