Agent skill

Firecrawl Security Basics

by jeremylongshore in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace

Secure Firecrawl identities, targets, request options, webhooks, untrusted content, retention, logs, and self-hosted exposure.

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Install Firecrawl Security Basics

skills CLI
$ npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill firecrawl-security-basics -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace firecrawl-security-basics --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/.curated/firecrawl-security-basics .claude/skills/firecrawl-security-basics && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
firecrawl-security-basics
GitHub stars
2.8k
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
493 words
Files
2 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
3,342
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Secure Firecrawl identities, targets, request options, webhooks, untrusted content, retention, logs, and self-hosted exposure.

  • Works in 7 steps: Inventory secrets, teams/roles, key… → Move every key and webhook secret to an… → Canonicalize and authorize targets… → …
  • Threat-modeling
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, Prerequisites, Current Contract and Authentication, plus 7 more sections
  • Needs FIRECRAWL_API_KEY

What it does

Firecrawl Security Basics is an agent skill from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace. Secure Firecrawl identities, targets, request options, webhooks, untrusted content, retention, logs, and self-hosted exposure. Use when threat-modeling or hardening an integration. Trigger with "secure Firecrawl", "Firecrawl security review", or "Firecrawl secrets".

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including reference files (for example `references/official-docs.md`). Compatibility notes: Designed for Claude Code; Firecrawl Cloud work requires network access

It sits in Security, covering Web scraping and Webhooks. It works with Firecrawl. The repository describes itself as: Model-agnostic agent-skills platform with a harness-free canonical layer, verified adapters, and the ccpi package manager. Explore at tonsofskills.com. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Threat-modeling
  • Hardening an integration
  • With secure Firecrawl
  • Firecrawl security review

Example prompts

  • “secure Firecrawl”
  • “Firecrawl security review”
  • “Firecrawl secrets”
  • “/firecrawl-security-basics”

Requirements

  • A credential in FIRECRAWL_API_KEY
  • Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Claude Code; Firecrawl Cloud work requires network access
  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Glob, Grep, Write, Edit

Workflow steps

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

  1. Inventory secrets, teams/roles, key owners, environments, source networks, allowed endpoints/formats, domains, custom headers, retained…
  2. Move every key and webhook secret to an approved secret manager; use workload identity, least privilege, rotation, revocation, and…
  3. Canonicalize and authorize targets before requests. Block private/link-local networks, embedded credentials, disallowed redirects/ports…
  4. Minimize formats, actions, headers, profiles, proxies, and retention. Apply key/IP/threat controls where available and keep application…
  5. Verify every webhook against raw bytes, require the sha256 prefix, decode equal-length hex, compare timing-safely, deduplicate webhookId…
  6. Treat scraped content and extracted JSON as untrusted. Sanitize active content, isolate it from privileged prompts/actions, validate…
  7. For self-hosting, add supported authentication, network controls, TLS, durable stores, patching, backups, monitoring, and provider…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit cfae287. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

    • Read
    • Glob
    • Grep
    • Write
    • Edit

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

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

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    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.

  • Compatibility

    Designed for Claude Code; Firecrawl Cloud work requires network access

    From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Firecrawl Security Basics loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs, and up to ~1.6k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 73 tokens; SKILL.md has 493 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~73
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~1.6k

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

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

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 jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace at commit cfae287, republished under its MIT licence (© jeremylongshore). 493 words, ~1,137 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/firecrawl-security-basics/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
firecrawl-security-basics
description
Secure Firecrawl identities, targets, request options, webhooks, untrusted content, retention, logs, and self-hosted exposure. Use when threat-modeling or hardening an integration. Trigger with "secure Firecrawl", "Firecrawl security review", or "Firecrawl secrets".
allowed-tools
Read, Glob, Grep, Write, Edit
compatibility
Designed for Claude Code; Firecrawl Cloud work requires network access
argument-hint
<repository-path> <environment>
version
1.12.0
license
MIT
author
Jeremy Longshore <jeremy@intentsolutions.io>
tags
saas, firecrawl, security, privacy
model
inherit
effort
high

Firecrawl Security Baseline

Overview

Protect both directions of the integration: credentials and requests sent to Firecrawl, and hostile or sensitive content returned from target sites.

Prerequisites

  • The target repository or integration path and the requested operator outcome.
  • The source authorization, data classification, and environment policy.
  • Current Firecrawl documentation, credentials only when needed, and an owner for approvals.

Current Contract

Cloud uses Bearer API keys; enterprise controls can restrict key endpoints/formats and source IPs and can add threat protection and SIEM evidence. Webhooks use X-Firecrawl-Signature with sha256=hex over the raw body. Cache, ZDR, lockdown, headers/actions, profiles, screenshots, and self-hosting have distinct data and threat boundaries.

Authentication

For authenticated Cloud operations, inject FIRECRAWL_API_KEY from an approved secret manager. REST requests use Authorization: Bearer with the key. Never print, commit, transmit, or place a key in a URL. Keyless access is suitable only where the current documentation explicitly allows it and the workload accepts its limits; production workflows should make identity and team ownership explicit.

Instructions

  1. Inventory secrets, teams/roles, key owners, environments, source networks, allowed endpoints/formats, domains, custom headers, retained data, webhooks, stores, and downstream actions.
  2. Move every key and webhook secret to an approved secret manager; use workload identity, least privilege, rotation, revocation, and separate environments.
  3. Canonicalize and authorize targets before requests. Block private/link-local networks, embedded credentials, disallowed redirects/ports, lookalike hosts, and unauthorized authenticated pages.
  4. Minimize formats, actions, headers, profiles, proxies, and retention. Apply key/IP/threat controls where available and keep application policy fail closed.
  5. Verify every webhook against raw bytes, require the sha256 prefix, decode equal-length hex, compare timing-safely, deduplicate webhookId, and acknowledge only accepted work.
  6. Treat scraped content and extracted JSON as untrusted. Sanitize active content, isolate it from privileged prompts/actions, validate schemas, and scan stored artifacts.
  7. For self-hosting, add supported authentication, network controls, TLS, durable stores, patching, backups, monitoring, and provider data-flow review before exposure.
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Tool Discipline

Use Read, Glob, and Grep to inspect code, configuration, tests, and evidence. Use Write/Edit only for approved implementation or documentation changes. Do not call Firecrawl, rotate keys, change account settings, scrape a target, or deploy merely because this skill was invoked.

Approval Boundaries

Require security/data approval before authenticated scraping, custom headers, browser profiles/actions, sensitive retention, restriction changes, self-host exposure, or adding external providers.

Output

Return a threat model, identity and secret inventory, target and request controls, webhook verification design, content trust boundary, retention decision, self-host posture, tests, and residual risks.

Error Handling

  • A secret appears in logs or artifacts: revoke/rotate as required and invoke incident handling.
  • Webhook raw bytes are unavailable or signature malformed: reject the delivery.
  • Target resolution or redirect escapes policy: stop before sending headers or credentials.

Examples

  • "Verify Firecrawl webhooks" validates the exact signed raw body and sha256 format.
  • "Pass customer cookies to any URL" is rejected until target, secret, retention, and session controls are approved.

Resources

Read official Firecrawl evidence before relying on an endpoint, SDK method, plan limit, price, retention option, or self-hosted release.

© jeremylongshore, MIT. 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 1 other file (references) in skills/.curated/firecrawl-security-basics of jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/official-docs.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit cfae287

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Firecrawl Interact Integrationfirecrawl/firecrawl190k1 repos~731Automated safety check: PassISC
Firecrawl Search Integrationfirecrawl/firecrawl190k1 repos~1.1kAutomated safety check: PassISC

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Questions about Firecrawl Security Basics

What does Firecrawl Security Basics do?

Secure Firecrawl identities, targets, request options, webhooks, untrusted content, retention, logs, and self-hosted exposure. Firecrawl Security Basics is an agent skill from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace. Secure Firecrawl identities, targets, request options, webhooks, untrusted content, retention, logs, and self-hosted exposure.

When should I use Firecrawl Security Basics?

Firecrawl Security Basics fits situations like: threat-modeling; hardening an integration; with secure Firecrawl; firecrawl security review.

How do I install Firecrawl Security Basics in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill firecrawl-security-basics -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/.curated/firecrawl-security-basics in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace) into .claude/skills/firecrawl-security-basics in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Firecrawl Security Basics in Codex?

Run `npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill firecrawl-security-basics -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/.curated/firecrawl-security-basics in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace) into .agents/skills/firecrawl-security-basics in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Firecrawl Security Basics in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill firecrawl-security-basics -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/firecrawl-security-basics, .gemini/skills/firecrawl-security-basics, .github/skills/firecrawl-security-basics and .opencode/skills/firecrawl-security-basics in your project.

What does Firecrawl Security Basics need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Firecrawl Security Basics needs credentials named FIRECRAWL_API_KEY. Our summary lists: A credential in FIRECRAWL_API_KEY. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Glob, Grep, Write, Edit. Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Claude Code; Firecrawl Cloud work requires network access.

Does Firecrawl Security Basics access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Firecrawl Security Basics safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Firecrawl Security Basics use?

Firecrawl Security Basics is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Firecrawl Security Basics use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.5k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 454 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Firecrawl Security Basics?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Firecrawl Security Basics: Firecrawl Build Onboarding (firecrawl/firecrawl, 190k stars), Firecrawl Page Scrape Integration (firecrawl/firecrawl, 190k stars), Firecrawl App Integration (firecrawl/firecrawl, 190k stars) and Firecrawl Interact Integration (firecrawl/firecrawl, 190k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Firecrawl Security Basics?

jeremylongshore (a GitHub user) maintains it in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace, which has 2,827 GitHub stars. The repository holds 3,342 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 10, 2026.

Source: jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.