firecrawl-mcp 3.20.6 → 3.21.0

package/dist/index.js

@@ -8,28 +8,6 @@ import { z } from 'zod';
 import { registerMonitorTools } from './monitor.js';
 import { registerResearchTools } from './research.js';
 dotenv.config({ debug: false, quiet: true });
-/**
- * Decide whether the research tools should be visible for a session.
- * Local/stdio/self-hosted: gated by `FIRECRAWL_RESEARCH=true`.
- * Remote (HTTP): additionally enabled by a `?research=true` query param on the
- * incoming MCP request URL.
- */
-function isResearchEnabled(request) {
-    if (process.env.FIRECRAWL_RESEARCH === 'true')
-        return true;
-    const url = request?.url;
-    if (url) {
-        try {
-            const research = new URL(url, 'http://localhost').searchParams.get('research');
-            if (research === 'true')
-                return true;
-        }
-        catch {
-            // malformed URL — fall through to disabled
-        }
-    }
-    return false;
-}
 function normalizeHeader(value) {
     if (value == null)
         return undefined;
@@ -210,7 +188,6 @@ const server = new FastMCP({
         protectedResourceMetadataUrl: getOAuthProtectedResourceMetadataUrl(),
     },
     authenticate: async (request) => {
-        const research = isResearchEnabled(request);
         // FastMCP invokes `authenticate(undefined)` for the stdio transport
         // because there is no HTTP request context. Without this null guard,
         // accessing `request.headers` throws a TypeError, FastMCP silently
@@ -234,11 +211,11 @@ const server = new FastMCP({
                 if (process.env.KEYLESS_PROXY_SECRET &&
                     clientIp &&
                     (await keylessEligible(clientIp))) {
-                    return { firecrawlApiKey: undefined, research, keylessClientIp: clientIp };
+                    return { firecrawlApiKey: undefined, keylessClientIp: clientIp };
                 }
                 throw new Error('Firecrawl credentials required: OAuth access token (Authorization: Bearer fco_...) or API key (x-firecrawl-api-key)');
             }
-            return { firecrawlApiKey: headerCred, research };
+            return { firecrawlApiKey: headerCred };
         }
         const credential = headerCred ?? envCred;
         // Self-hosted / stdio / HTTP streamable — headers supply MCP OAuth token when present
@@ -257,7 +234,7 @@ const server = new FastMCP({
             console.error('HTTP MCP transport requires FIRECRAWL_API_URL and/or credentials (OAuth: Authorization Bearer fco_..., or FIRECRAWL_API_KEY / FIRECRAWL_OAUTH_TOKEN)');
             process.exit(1);
         }
-        return { firecrawlApiKey: credential, research };
+        return { firecrawlApiKey: credential };
     },
     // Lightweight health endpoint for LB checks
     health: {
@@ -466,8 +443,9 @@ server.addTool({
     name: 'firecrawl_scrape',
     annotations: {
         title: 'Scrape a URL',
-        readOnlyHint: SAFE_MODE,
-        openWorldHint: true,
+        readOnlyHint: SAFE_MODE, // Fetches page content only; in cloud/safe mode interactive browser actions are disabled.
+        openWorldHint: true, // Accepts any user-supplied URL on the public web.
+        destructiveHint: false, // Does not modify, delete, or write to external websites.
     },
     description: `
 Scrape content from a single URL with advanced options.
@@ -604,8 +582,9 @@ server.addTool({
     name: 'firecrawl_map',
     annotations: {
         title: 'Map a website',
-        readOnlyHint: true,
-        openWorldHint: true,
+        readOnlyHint: true, // Discovers and returns indexed URLs; does not modify the target site.
+        openWorldHint: true, // Operates against arbitrary user-supplied web domains.
+        destructiveHint: false, // Read-only discovery; no deletion or destructive updates.
     },
     description: `
 Map a website to discover all indexed URLs on the site.
@@ -662,8 +641,9 @@ server.addTool({
     name: 'firecrawl_search',
     annotations: {
         title: 'Search the web',
-        readOnlyHint: true,
-        openWorldHint: true,
+        readOnlyHint: true, // Runs a web search and returns results; does not modify external sites.
+        openWorldHint: true, // Searches the open web across arbitrary domains and sources.
+        destructiveHint: false, // Query-only; no destructive side effects on external entities.
     },
     description: `
 Search the web and optionally extract content from search results. This is the most powerful web search tool available, and if available you should always default to using this tool for any web search needs.
@@ -834,7 +814,9 @@ function isKeylessMode(session) {
     return !process.env.FIRECRAWL_API_URL;
 }
 async function keylessPost(path, body, session) {
-    const headers = { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' };
+    const headers = {
+        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
+    };
     // Forward the real client IP (secret-authenticated) when proxying keyless
     // requests through the hosted MCP, so the API rate-limits per real IP.
     if (session?.keylessClientIp && process.env.KEYLESS_PROXY_SECRET) {
@@ -883,8 +865,9 @@ if (!SEARCH_FEEDBACK_DISABLED) {
         name: 'firecrawl_search_feedback',
         annotations: {
             title: 'Send feedback on a search result',
-            readOnlyHint: false,
-            openWorldHint: true,
+            readOnlyHint: false, // POSTs structured feedback to the API, creating a server-side record.
+            openWorldHint: true, // Feedback references open-web search results and external URLs.
+            destructiveHint: false, // Additive only; records feedback and may refund credits, does not delete data.
         },
         description: `
 Send structured feedback on a previous \`firecrawl_search\` result. **Call this immediately after a search where you used the results** so we can improve search quality and refund 1 credit (search costs 2).
@@ -1042,8 +1025,9 @@ if (!ENDPOINT_FEEDBACK_DISABLED) {
         name: 'firecrawl_feedback',
         annotations: {
             title: 'Send feedback on a Firecrawl job',
-            readOnlyHint: false,
-            openWorldHint: true,
+            readOnlyHint: false, // POSTs structured feedback for a completed job to /v2/feedback.
+            openWorldHint: true, // Feedback is tied to jobs that processed open-web URLs.
+            destructiveHint: false, // Additive only; submits ratings and notes, does not delete jobs or external content.
         },
         description: `
 Send structured feedback for a completed Firecrawl v2 job. Use this for endpoint-level feedback on \`scrape\`, \`parse\`, \`map\`, or \`search\` jobs when the job result was useful, partially useful, or failed to meet expectations.
@@ -1139,9 +1123,9 @@ server.addTool({
     name: 'firecrawl_crawl',
     annotations: {
         title: 'Start a site crawl',
-        readOnlyHint: false,
-        openWorldHint: true,
-        destructiveHint: false,
+        readOnlyHint: false, // Starts an asynchronous crawl job, creating a persistent server-side job.
+        openWorldHint: true, // Crawls user-specified URLs across the public web.
+        destructiveHint: false, // Reads pages from target sites; does not delete or alter external websites.
     },
     description: `
  Starts a crawl job on a website and extracts content from all pages.
@@ -1217,8 +1201,9 @@ server.addTool({
     name: 'firecrawl_check_crawl_status',
     annotations: {
         title: 'Get crawl status',
-        readOnlyHint: true,
-        openWorldHint: false,
+        readOnlyHint: true, // Retrieves status and results for an existing crawl job by ID; no mutations.
+        openWorldHint: false, // Queries only Firecrawl job state within the authenticated account.
+        destructiveHint: false, // Status lookup only; no deletes or updates.
     },
     description: `
 Check the status of a crawl job.
@@ -1245,8 +1230,9 @@ server.addTool({
     name: 'firecrawl_extract',
     annotations: {
         title: 'Extract structured data',
-        readOnlyHint: true,
-        openWorldHint: true,
+        readOnlyHint: true, // Uses LLM extraction to pull structured data from URLs without modifying those sites.
+        openWorldHint: true, // Accepts arbitrary user-supplied URLs on the public web.
+        destructiveHint: false, // Read-only extraction; no destructive changes to external content.
     },
     description: `
 Extract structured information from web pages using LLM capabilities. Supports both cloud AI and self-hosted LLM extraction.
@@ -1316,9 +1302,9 @@ server.addTool({
     name: 'firecrawl_agent',
     annotations: {
         title: 'Start a research agent',
-        readOnlyHint: false,
-        openWorldHint: true,
-        destructiveHint: false,
+        readOnlyHint: false, // Starts an autonomous research agent job on the Firecrawl API.
+        openWorldHint: true, // The agent browses and searches the open web to fulfill the prompt.
+        destructiveHint: false, // Gathers information only; does not delete external data or user resources.
     },
     description: `
 Autonomous web research agent. This is a separate AI agent layer that independently browses the internet, searches for information, navigates through pages, and extracts structured data based on your query. You describe what you need, and the agent figures out where to find it.
@@ -1417,8 +1403,9 @@ server.addTool({
     name: 'firecrawl_agent_status',
     annotations: {
         title: 'Get agent job status',
-        readOnlyHint: true,
-        openWorldHint: false,
+        readOnlyHint: true, // Polls an existing agent job by ID for progress and results; no mutations.
+        openWorldHint: false, // Queries only Firecrawl job state by job ID within the user's account.
+        destructiveHint: false, // Read-only status check.
     },
     description: `
 Check the status of an agent job and retrieve results when complete. Use this to poll for results after starting an agent with \`firecrawl_agent\`.
@@ -1459,9 +1446,9 @@ server.addTool({
     name: 'firecrawl_interact',
     annotations: {
         title: 'Interact with a scraped page',
-        readOnlyHint: false,
-        openWorldHint: true,
-        destructiveHint: false,
+        readOnlyHint: false, // Executes browser interactions (clicks, form input, scripts) in a live session.
+        openWorldHint: true, // Interacts with pages on the public web via the scraped session.
+        destructiveHint: false, // Transient page interactions only; does not delete monitors, jobs, or external sites.
     },
     description: `
 Interact with a previously scraped page in a live browser session. Scrape a page first with firecrawl_scrape, then use the returned scrapeId to click buttons, fill forms, extract dynamic content, or navigate deeper.
@@ -1532,9 +1519,9 @@ server.addTool({
     name: 'firecrawl_interact_stop',
     annotations: {
         title: 'Stop interact session',
-        readOnlyHint: false,
-        openWorldHint: false,
-        destructiveHint: true,
+        readOnlyHint: false, // Calls the API to stop and tear down an active interact session.
+        openWorldHint: false, // Operates only on a known Firecrawl scrape/interact session ID.
+        destructiveHint: true, // Terminates the live browser session; this end state cannot be resumed.
     },
     description: `
 Stop an interact session for a scraped page. Call this when you are done interacting to free resources.
@@ -1633,8 +1620,9 @@ if (process.env.CLOUD_SERVICE !== 'true') {
         name: 'firecrawl_parse',
         annotations: {
             title: 'Parse a local file',
-            readOnlyHint: true,
-            openWorldHint: false,
+            readOnlyHint: true, // Reads and parses a local file; does not modify the file on disk.
+            openWorldHint: false, // Operates on a local filesystem path, not the open web.
+            destructiveHint: false, // Read-only parsing; no deletion or writes to the source file.
         },
         description: `
 Parse a file from the local filesystem using a self-hosted Firecrawl API's /v2/parse endpoint.
@@ -1783,18 +1771,5 @@ else {
     };
 }
 registerMonitorTools(server);
-// Research tools gating. FastMCP's `canAccess` is only honored on the HTTP
-// transport (the stdio path exposes every registered tool regardless), so we
-// split the two cases:
-//   - HTTP (cloud / SSE_LOCAL / HTTP_STREAMABLE_SERVER): always register; each
-//     tool's `canAccess` hides it unless the session has research enabled
-//     (`FIRECRAWL_RESEARCH=true` env or `?research=true` on the request).
-//   - stdio (local): register only when `FIRECRAWL_RESEARCH=true`, since
-//     `canAccess` cannot hide them there.
-const isHttpTransport = process.env.CLOUD_SERVICE === 'true' ||
-    process.env.SSE_LOCAL === 'true' ||
-    process.env.HTTP_STREAMABLE_SERVER === 'true';
-if (isHttpTransport || process.env.FIRECRAWL_RESEARCH === 'true') {
-    registerResearchTools(server, getClient);
-}
+registerResearchTools(server, getClient);
 await server.start(args);

package/dist/monitor.js

@@ -119,8 +119,9 @@ export function registerMonitorTools(server) {
         name: 'firecrawl_monitor_create',
         annotations: {
             title: 'Create monitor',
-            readOnlyHint: false,
-            openWorldHint: true,
+            readOnlyHint: false, // Creates a new recurring monitor configuration on the Firecrawl API.
+            openWorldHint: true, // Monitors user-specified URLs on the public web on a recurring schedule.
+            destructiveHint: false, // Additive; creates a new monitor without deleting existing monitors or external content.
         },
         description: `
 Create a Firecrawl monitor — a recurring scrape or crawl that diffs each result against the last retained snapshot.
@@ -243,8 +244,9 @@ Full \`body\` requests require: \`name\`, \`schedule\` (with \`cron\` or \`text\
         name: 'firecrawl_monitor_list',
         annotations: {
             title: 'List monitors',
-            readOnlyHint: true,
-            openWorldHint: false,
+            readOnlyHint: true, // Lists monitors for the authenticated account; no mutations.
+            openWorldHint: false, // Returns only the user's Firecrawl monitor records, not arbitrary web content.
+            destructiveHint: false, // Read-only listing.
         },
         description: `
 List all Firecrawl monitors for the authenticated account.
@@ -270,8 +272,9 @@ List all Firecrawl monitors for the authenticated account.
         name: 'firecrawl_monitor_get',
         annotations: {
             title: 'Get monitor',
-            readOnlyHint: true,
-            openWorldHint: false,
+            readOnlyHint: true, // Fetches a single monitor by ID; no mutations.
+            openWorldHint: false, // Reads a specific monitor resource in the user's Firecrawl account.
+            destructiveHint: false, // Read-only retrieval.
         },
         description: `
 Get a single monitor by ID.
@@ -292,8 +295,9 @@ Get a single monitor by ID.
         name: 'firecrawl_monitor_update',
         annotations: {
             title: 'Update monitor',
-            readOnlyHint: false,
-            openWorldHint: true,
+            readOnlyHint: false, // PATCHes an existing monitor (status, schedule, targets, webhooks, etc.).
+            openWorldHint: true, // Can change which external URLs are monitored and how recurring scrapes run.
+            destructiveHint: true, // Can pause, replace, or remove monitor configuration; changes overwrite prior settings.
         },
         description: `
 Update a monitor. Pass any subset of fields to patch: \`name\`, \`status\` ("active" | "paused"), \`schedule\`, \`targets\`, \`goal\`, \`judgeEnabled\`, \`webhook\`, \`notification\`, \`retentionDays\`.
@@ -323,9 +327,9 @@ Update a monitor. Pass any subset of fields to patch: \`name\`, \`status\` ("act
         name: 'firecrawl_monitor_delete',
         annotations: {
             title: 'Delete monitor',
-            readOnlyHint: false,
-            destructiveHint: true,
-            openWorldHint: true,
+            readOnlyHint: false, // Permanently deletes a monitor via DELETE on the API.
+            openWorldHint: true, // Deletes a monitor that tracked open-web URLs.
+            destructiveHint: true, // Irreversibly removes the monitor and stops its schedule.
         },
         description: `
 Permanently delete a monitor and stop its schedule. This cannot be undone.
@@ -347,8 +351,9 @@ Permanently delete a monitor and stop its schedule. This cannot be undone.
         name: 'firecrawl_monitor_run',
         annotations: {
             title: 'Run monitor now',
-            readOnlyHint: false,
-            openWorldHint: true,
+            readOnlyHint: false, // Triggers an immediate monitor check, queueing a new scrape/diff run.
+            openWorldHint: true, // The triggered check scrapes external URLs configured on the monitor.
+            destructiveHint: false, // Starts a read-only check job; does not delete the monitor or external sites.
         },
         description: `
 Trigger a monitor check immediately, outside its normal schedule. Returns the queued check.
@@ -369,8 +374,9 @@ Trigger a monitor check immediately, outside its normal schedule. Returns the qu
         name: 'firecrawl_monitor_checks',
         annotations: {
             title: 'List monitor checks',
-            readOnlyHint: true,
-            openWorldHint: false,
+            readOnlyHint: true, // Lists historical check runs for a monitor; no mutations.
+            openWorldHint: false, // Returns check history for a known monitor ID within the user's account.
+            destructiveHint: false, // Read-only listing.
         },
         description: `
 List historical checks for a monitor.
@@ -396,8 +402,9 @@ List historical checks for a monitor.
         name: 'firecrawl_monitor_check',
         annotations: {
             title: 'Get monitor check',
-            readOnlyHint: true,
-            openWorldHint: false,
+            readOnlyHint: true, // Retrieves a single check run with page-level diff results; no mutations.
+            openWorldHint: false, // Reads stored check results for a known monitor/check ID in the user's account.
+            destructiveHint: false, // Read-only retrieval of diff snapshots and judgments.
         },
         description: `
 Get a single check with page-level diff results. Filter \`pageStatus\` to surface only the pages that changed (or were new, removed, etc.).

package/dist/research.js

@@ -1,11 +1,8 @@
 /**
  * Firecrawl Research tools (experimental).
  *
- * Thin MCP wrappers over the `/v2/research/*` endpoints (arXiv papers + GitHub
- * history/readmes). These tools are hidden unless research is enabled for the
- * session — locally via `FIRECRAWL_RESEARCH=true`, or remotely via the
- * `?research=true` query param on the MCP endpoint (see `isResearchEnabled` in
- * index.ts, which sets `session.research`).
+ * Thin MCP wrappers over the `/v2/search/research/*` endpoints (arXiv papers + GitHub
+ * history/readmes).
  *
  * The installed `@mendable/firecrawl-js` predates the SDK's `research` client,
  * so we call the endpoints directly through the SDK's HTTP layer (auth +
@@ -13,7 +10,7 @@
  * `/v2/search`.
  */
 import { z } from 'zod';
-const BASE = '/v2/research';
+const BASE = '/v2/search/research';
 /** Append a value (or repeated array values) to a URLSearchParams instance. */
 function appendParam(params, key, value) {
     if (value == null)
@@ -43,9 +40,9 @@ const MAX_ABSTRACT_CHARS = 600;
 const MAX_AFFIL_CHARS = 60;
 // Hard ceiling on the whole authors line, as a final guard.
 const MAX_AUTHORS_LINE_CHARS = 400;
-/** Best display id for a paper: its arXiv id, falling back to the canonical id. */
+/** Display id supplied by the API, already ordered for citation/fetch use. */
 function displayId(p) {
-    return p.ids?.arxiv?.[0] ?? p.paper_id ?? '?';
+    return p.primaryId ?? 'missing-primary-id';
 }
 /** Format the authors line, accepting either the string or structured form. */
 function fmtAuthors(authors) {
@@ -81,7 +78,7 @@ function fmtHits(results) {
         return '(no results)';
     return results
         .map((r) => {
-        const lines = [`[${displayId(r)}] ${r.title ?? '(untitled)'}`];
+        const lines = [`## [${displayId(r)}] ${r.title ?? '(untitled)'}`];
         const authors = fmtAuthors(r.authors);
         if (authors)
             lines.push(authors);
@@ -92,6 +89,36 @@ function fmtHits(results) {
     })
         .join('\n\n');
 }
+function fmtPaperMetadata(paper) {
+    if (!paper)
+        return '(paper not found)';
+    const lines = [`# ${paper.title ?? '(untitled)'}`];
+    lines.push('');
+    lines.push(`Paper ID: ${paper.paperId ?? '?'}`);
+    const ids = Object.entries(paper.ids ?? {})
+        .flatMap(([namespace, values]) => values.map((value) => `${namespace}:${value}`))
+        .join(', ');
+    if (ids)
+        lines.push(`IDs: ${ids}`);
+    const authors = fmtAuthors(paper.authors);
+    if (authors)
+        lines.push(authors);
+    if (paper.categories?.length) {
+        lines.push(`Categories: ${paper.categories.join(', ')}`);
+    }
+    const dates = [
+        paper.createdDate ? `created ${paper.createdDate}` : '',
+        paper.updateDate ? `updated ${paper.updateDate}` : '',
+    ]
+        .filter(Boolean)
+        .join('; ');
+    if (dates)
+        lines.push(`Dates: ${dates}`);
+    lines.push('');
+    lines.push('## Abstract');
+    lines.push((paper.abstract || '(no abstract)').replace(/\s+/g, ' '));
+    return lines.join('\n');
+}
 // Cap GitHub matched content so a page of results stays within the MCP
 // output-token limit. Higher than abstracts since issue/PR threads carry the
 // signal (repro steps, stack traces) the agent actually needs to verify.
@@ -130,17 +157,15 @@ function fmtGithub(results) {
     })
         .join('\n\n');
 }
-/** Only present these tools when the session has research enabled. */
-const canAccess = (session) => session?.research === true;
 export function registerResearchTools(server, getClient) {
     // --- search_papers ---
     server.addTool({
         name: 'firecrawl_research_search_papers',
-        canAccess,
         annotations: {
             title: 'Search arXiv papers',
-            readOnlyHint: true,
-            openWorldHint: true,
+            readOnlyHint: true, // Semantic search over indexed arXiv metadata; returns ranked results only.
+            openWorldHint: true, // Searches the public arXiv research corpus.
+            destructiveHint: false, // Query-only; no writes to arXiv or the research index.
         },
         description: 'Primary entry point for finding arXiv papers by topic. Semantic (HyDE) search over arXiv ' +
             'abstracts; returns ranked papers with arXiv id, title, and abstract. The query should be a ' +
@@ -181,14 +206,39 @@ export function registerResearchTools(server, getClient) {
             return fmtHits(res.data?.results);
         },
     });
+    // --- inspect_paper ---
+    server.addTool({
+        name: 'firecrawl_research_inspect_paper',
+        annotations: {
+            title: 'Inspect a paper',
+            readOnlyHint: true, // Fetches canonical metadata (title, abstract, authors) for one paper by ID.
+            openWorldHint: true, // Retrieves metadata for papers in public indexes (arXiv, PMC, DOI, etc.).
+            destructiveHint: false, // Read-only metadata lookup.
+        },
+        description: 'Fetch canonical metadata for one paper by primaryId or canonical paperId. ' +
+            'Use this after search/related results when you need the full title, abstract, authors, ' +
+            'categories, source ids, and dates rendered as markdown.',
+        parameters: z.object({
+            paperId: z
+                .string()
+                .min(1)
+                .describe('Canonical paperId or primaryId such as `arxiv:1706.03762`, `pmcid:PMC12530322`, `pmid:40953549`, or `doi:10.1016/j.neunet.2025.108095`.'),
+        }),
+        execute: async (args, { session }) => {
+            const { paperId } = args;
+            const client = getClient(session);
+            const res = await client.http.get(`${BASE}/papers/${encodeURIComponent(paperId)}`);
+            return fmtPaperMetadata(res.data?.paper);
+        },
+    });
     // --- related_papers ---
     server.addTool({
         name: 'firecrawl_research_related_papers',
-        canAccess,
         annotations: {
             title: 'Find related arXiv papers',
-            readOnlyHint: true,
-            openWorldHint: true,
+            readOnlyHint: true, // Finds related papers via citation graph expansion; returns candidates only.
+            openWorldHint: true, // Traverses relationships across the public research paper corpus.
+            destructiveHint: false, // Read-only graph query; no modifications.
         },
         description: 'Expand from anchor papers you have already found, via the citation graph, ranked and filtered ' +
             'to a natural-language `intent`. Pass arXiv ids of your strongest hits as `seed_ids`. Modes: ' +
@@ -223,24 +273,27 @@ export function registerResearchTools(server, getClient) {
             const client = getClient(session);
             const res = await client.http.get(withQuery(`${BASE}/papers/${encodeURIComponent(primary)}/similar`, params));
             const note = res.data?.note ? `\nnote: ${res.data.note}` : '';
-            return `${fmtHits(res.data?.results)}\n(pool_size=${res.data?.pool_size ?? 0})${note}`;
+            return `${fmtHits(res.data?.results)}\n(poolSize=${res.data?.poolSize ?? 0})${note}`;
         },
     });
     // --- read_paper ---
     server.addTool({
         name: 'firecrawl_research_read_paper',
-        canAccess,
         annotations: {
-            title: 'Read an arXiv paper',
-            readOnlyHint: true,
-            openWorldHint: true,
+            title: 'Read a paper',
+            readOnlyHint: true, // Retrieves relevant full-text passages from a paper; does not modify the paper.
+            openWorldHint: true, // Reads from publicly indexed paper full text when available.
+            destructiveHint: false, // Read-only passage retrieval.
         },
         description: 'Read the most relevant in-body (full-text) passages of ONE specific paper for a question. Use ' +
             'this to VERIFY whether a candidate actually satisfies a constraint before you include or ' +
             "reject it (e.g. 'does this paper actually use technique X / report a score on benchmark Y'). " +
             "Returns the best-matching passages, or a notice if the paper's full text is unavailable.",
         parameters: z.object({
-            arxiv_id: z.string().min(1),
+            paperId: z
+                .string()
+                .min(1)
+                .describe('Canonical paperId or primaryId such as `arxiv:1706.03762`, `pmcid:PMC12530322`, `pmid:40953549`, or `doi:10.1016/j.neunet.2025.108095`.'),
             question: z.string().min(1),
             k: z
                 .number()
@@ -251,12 +304,12 @@ export function registerResearchTools(server, getClient) {
                 .describe('Number of passages to return (default 4).'),
         }),
         execute: async (args, { session }) => {
-            const { arxiv_id, question, k } = args;
+            const { paperId, question, k } = args;
             const params = new URLSearchParams();
             appendParam(params, 'query', question);
             appendParam(params, 'k', k);
             const client = getClient(session);
-            const res = await client.http.get(withQuery(`${BASE}/papers/${encodeURIComponent(arxiv_id)}`, params));
+            const res = await client.http.get(withQuery(`${BASE}/papers/${encodeURIComponent(paperId)}`, params));
             const passages = res.data?.passages ?? [];
             return passages.length
                 ? passages.map((p) => p.text).join('\n---\n')
@@ -266,11 +319,11 @@ export function registerResearchTools(server, getClient) {
     // --- search_github ---
     server.addTool({
         name: 'firecrawl_research_search_github',
-        canAccess,
         annotations: {
             title: 'Search GitHub history',
-            readOnlyHint: true,
-            openWorldHint: true,
+            readOnlyHint: true, // Searches indexed GitHub issue/PR history and READMEs; returns matches only.
+            openWorldHint: true, // Searches public GitHub content.
+            destructiveHint: false, // Query-only; does not create issues, PRs, or modify repositories.
         },
         description: 'Search GitHub issue/PR history and repository readmes. Returns ranked matches with repo, ' +
             'url, a short snippet, and (when available) the full matched content in markdown.',

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "firecrawl-mcp",
-  "version": "3.20.6",
+  "version": "3.21.0",
   "description": "MCP server for Firecrawl — search, scrape, and interact with the web. Supports both cloud and self-hosted instances. Features include web search, scraping, page interaction, batch processing, and LLM-powered content analysis.",
   "type": "module",
   "mcpName": "io.github.firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server",