read-literature
Skill from firecrawl/firecrawl-claude-plugin
Install
npx skills add firecrawl/firecrawl-claude-plugin --skill read-literature
Runs the open skills CLI and installs the skill for your agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor …). Alternatively copy the skill folder into .claude/skills/ or upload it in Claude.ai under Settings → Skills.
As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-official
/plugin install firecrawl@firecrawl
This skill is part of the plugin “firecrawl”. In Claude Code the plugin installs it together with the plugin’s other skills, commands and hooks.
What does the read-literature skill do?
Description from the SKILL.md in the source repository.
Works with Firecrawl
Questions about read-literature
What does the read-literature skill do?
Find and read published research papers instead of relying on memory, which may be outdated. Use for what studies, trials or meta-analyses show, evidence for or against a claim, recent findings, related work, citing or cited papers, or questions about a named paper, including biomedical and clinical studies and arXiv preprints in computer science, physics and math, even without an explicit request to search papers. Excludes general explanations, news and questions fully answered by supplied papers.
How do I install read-literature?
In a terminal: npx skills add firecrawl/firecrawl-claude-plugin --skill read-literature. The skills CLI asks which agents to install it for. In Claude.ai you can upload the skill folder as a ZIP under Settings → Skills.
Which agents can use read-literature?
Skills use the open SKILL.md format, which Claude Code, Claude.ai, the Claude API, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI and other agents support.
Is read-literature safe to use?
Our automatic check found no risky patterns (piped shell scripts, hidden characters, secret access, prompt overrides). It is not a full audit – read the SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.
Which tool is read-literature for?
read-literature comes from the makers of Firecrawl and helps your agent work with it.
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