Firecrawl

What it does

When your agent uses it

• The user wants to search the web
• Research a topic
• Look something up online
• Scrape a webpage

Example prompts

• “fetch this page”
• “pull the content from”
• “get the page at https://”
• “/firecrawl”

Requirements

• Node.js
• A credential in FIRECRAWL_API_KEY

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Search - No specific URL yet. Find pages, answer questions, discover sources.
2. 2Scrape - Have a URL. Extract its content directly.
3. 3Map + Scrape - Large site or need a specific subpage. Use map --search to find the right URL, then scrape it.
4. 4Crawl - Need bulk content from an entire site section (e.g., all /docs/).
5. 5Interact - Scrape first, then interact with the page (pagination, modals, form submissions, multi-step navigation).

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 78497e5. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • jq
  • npx

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

  • firecrawl.dev

  Also links to:

  • github.com

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

  • FIRECRAWL_API_KEY

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Firecrawl loads about 1.8k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 174 tokens; SKILL.md has 589 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~174

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.8k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

• NoteMentions a .env fileSKILL.md:87

  o an app, adding `FIRECRAWL_API_KEY` to `.env`, or choosing endpoint usage in product code** -> use the `firecrawl-build

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins at commit 78497e5, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© hashgraph-online). 589 words, ~1,755 tokens.

name

firecrawl

description

Search, scrape, and interact with the web via the Firecrawl CLI. Use this skill whenever the user wants to search the web, find articles, research a topic, look something up online, scrape a webpage, grab content from a URL, get data from a website, crawl documentation, or interact with pages that need clicks or logins. Also use when they say "fetch this page", "pull the content from", "get the page at https://", or reference external websites. This provides real-time web search with full page content and interact capabilities — beyond typical built-in browsing without the Firecrawl CLI. Do NOT trigger for local file operations, git commands, deployments, or code editing tasks.

  🔥 firecrawl cli v1.8.0

  ● Authenticated via FIRECRAWL_API_KEY
  Concurrency: 0/100 jobs (parallel scrape limit)
  Credits: 500,000 remaining

mkdir -p .firecrawl
firecrawl scrape "https://firecrawl.dev" -o .firecrawl/install-check.md

firecrawl search "query" --scrape --limit 3

firecrawl search "react hooks" -o .firecrawl/search-react-hooks.json --json
firecrawl scrape "<url>" -o .firecrawl/page.md

.firecrawl/search-{query}.json
.firecrawl/search-{query}-scraped.json
.firecrawl/{site}-{path}.md

wc -l .firecrawl/file.md && head -50 .firecrawl/file.md
grep -n "keyword" .firecrawl/file.md

# Extract URLs from search
jq -r '.data.web[].url' .firecrawl/search.json

# Get titles and URLs
jq -r '.data.web[] | "\(.title): \(.url)"' .firecrawl/search.json

firecrawl scrape "<url-1>" -o .firecrawl/1.md &
firecrawl scrape "<url-2>" -o .firecrawl/2.md &
firecrawl scrape "<url-3>" -o .firecrawl/3.md &
wait

firecrawl credit-usage
firecrawl credit-usage --json --pretty -o .firecrawl/credits.json

© hashgraph-online, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files in plugins/firecrawl/firecrawl-codex-plugin/skills/firecrawl-cli of hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins.

• SKILL.md
• rules/install.md
• rules/security.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 78497e5