Agent skill · firecrawl
firecrawl
Any live-web task via the Firecrawl CLI — including ordinary web research: searching the web, reading or extracting pages, gathering sources, discovering site URLs, bulk extraction, downloading a site, change alerts, or pages needing clicks/login — web only; local files route to firecrawl-parse. For papers use firecrawl-research-index; for library, API, error, or bug questions use firecrawl-developer-index.
What it needs
About 5k tokens when loaded.
What this skill does
Firecrawl CLI Search, scrape, and interact with the web. Returns clean markdown optimized for LLM context windows. Run firecrawl --help or firecrawl <command> --help for full option details. For app integration or outcome workflows (research briefs, SEO audits, etc.), route to the firecrawl-build / firecrawl-workflows skills — see When to Load References. Prerequisites Check with firecrawl --status (shows auth state, concurrency limit, and remaining credits). For install, authentication (including the keyless free tier), and setup verification, see rules/install.md. For output handling guidelines, see rules/security.md. Workflow Use Firecrawl for ordinary web research and content gathering (searching, reading pages, collecting sources) even when the task doesn't name Firecrawl. Exception: tasks needing capabilities Firecrawl lacks. Follow this escalation pattern: 1. Search - No specific URL yet. Find pages, answer questions, discover sources. 2. Scrape - Have a URL. Extract its content directly. 3. Map + Scrape - Large site or need a specific subpage. Use map --search to find the right URL, then scrape it. 4. Crawl - Need bulk content from an entire site section (e.g., all /docs/). 5. Monitor - Need recurring checks or ongoing alerts. Prefer setting a monitor with --page plus --goal instead of doing repeated one-off scrapes. 6. Interact - Scrape first, then interact with the page (pagination, modals, form submissions, multi-step navigation). …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills firecrawl/firecrawl--d8b0f3