# firecrawl

Wires the Firecrawl CLI into your agent so it can search the web, read pages, crawl sites and watch them for changes.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 103200 installs · ★ 671
- Author: firecrawl
- License: not stated · policy=link-only · description only; the file stays with the author
- Source: https://github.com/firecrawl/cli/tree/HEAD/skills/firecrawl/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/firecrawl

## What it does

The skill grants the agent permission to run `firecrawl` and `npx firecrawl-cli`, then lets it pick the right command per task. `search` finds sources, `scrape` reads a known URL, `map` locates a subpage on a big site, `crawl` pulls a whole section such as `/docs/`, and `monitor` handles recurring checks. Pages come back as clean markdown sized for a model's context window.

Narrower commands cover specific ground: `gov` for US statutes and court opinions, `research` for scientific papers, `developer` for issues, merged PRs and library docs. Files already on disk go to `firecrawl-parse` instead. When a page needs clicks, form fills or a login, the flow is `scrape` first, then `interact`.

Run `firecrawl --status` before you start. It reports auth state, the concurrency limit and remaining credits. Nothing runs without authentication set up, so sort that out first. Search results fetched with `--scrape` already carry full page content, which means re-scraping those URLs just burns credits.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add firecrawl/cli --skill firecrawl -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/firecrawl/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/firecrawl/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add firecrawl/cli --skill firecrawl -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/firecrawl/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add firecrawl/cli --skill firecrawl -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/firecrawl/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install firecrawl/cli firecrawl
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/firecrawl/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add firecrawl/cli --skill firecrawl -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/firecrawl/cli --path skills/firecrawl
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/firecrawl/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add firecrawl/cli --skill firecrawl -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/firecrawl/cli/tree/HEAD/skills/firecrawl/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- gather sources on a topic and save them to files
- pull text from a JavaScript-rendered page
- locate one subpage inside a large site
- download an entire docs section in one pass
- set up recurring change alerts on a page

## Example prompts
- Search the web for recent posts on vector databases and save the links
- Read the page at this URL and pull out the pricing table
- Set up a monitor on the releases page and tell me when it changes

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