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The Research Index docs should make it clear that agents can use the paper search endpoint for life-science literature, without repositioning the page as biopharma-specific or naming sources/corpus size.

Summary

  • Broadened the Research Index overview to include life-science research agents.
  • Added neutral life-science discoverability terms such as biomedical concepts, drug discovery, clinical trials, biology, and genomics.
  • Added a small cURL example showing a life-science search query while preserving the existing diffusion/arXiv examples.
  • Added a CLI example for agent usage: firecrawl research search-papers "single-cell RNA-seq batch correction" --limit 20.
  • Clarified accepted paper id prefixes for inspect/read workflows: arxiv:, pmid:, pmcid:, and doi:.
  • Updated the Search Papers API summary to include biomedical concepts and life-science research questions.

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  • git diff --check -- features/research.mdx api-reference/endpoint/research-search-papers.mdx
  • Confirmed only features/research.mdx and api-reference/endpoint/research-search-papers.mdx are touched.
  • Confirmed no localized files are touched.
  • Confirmed no new corpus count/source-family claims such as 40M, million, PubMed, publisher, database, source collection, source family, or corpus size.
  • Confirmed MDX code-fence balance.
  • Live cURL check: https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/search/research/papers?query=CRISPR%20gene%20editing%20therapy&k=3 returned relevant PMCID/PMID gene-therapy results.
  • Live CLI check: env -u FIRECRAWL_API_KEY npx -y firecrawl-cli@latest research search-papers "single-cell RNA-seq batch correction" --limit 3 --json returned relevant PMCID batch-correction results.

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Keep the life-science docs launch in one canonical PR by adding the verified CLI example and biomedical paper-id prefix guidance to the existing Research Index update.\n\nConstraint: Launch docs should stay on the existing Research Index surface without new endpoint, category, count, or source-family claims.\nRejected: Merging both #1088 and #1089 separately | The PRs overlap in the guide intro and would create duplicate review/merge churn.\nConfidence: high\nScope-risk: narrow\nDirective: Keep future biomedical examples tied to live-verified Research Index outputs.\nTested: git diff --check -- features/research.mdx api-reference/endpoint/research-search-papers.mdx; no localized files touched; no corpus count/source claims; MDX fence balance; live cURL CRISPR query returned PMCID/PMID results; live keyless CLI single-cell RNA-seq query returned PMCID results.\nNot-tested: Mintlify preview/build because mint is not installed locally.

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This feels odd. What is a biomedical concept? Why do we specify life science research but not AI/ML reserach (which is also possible)?

I would honestly revert this one back to original.

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