firecrawl

firecrawl is a skill for Claude Code from mahmoud20138/Tradecraft. It costs 197 tokens per session (5,206 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line toolkit for fetching information from websites, searching the web, extracting page content, mapping sites, crawling sections, and using an interactive browser when needed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search for sources, scrape a known URL, find specific pages within a site, collect content from a site section, or interact with pages that basic extraction cannot read.
Why use it?
It gives web-related tasks a defined way to find and read online information, including pages that need JavaScript or interaction. It reduces the need to switch between separate browsing and scraping tools.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the tradecraft plugin — 58 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to search for sources, scrape a known URL, find specific pages within a site, collect content from a site section, or interact with pages that basic extraction cannot read.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mahmoud20138/tradecraft/firecrawl
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add mahmoud20138/Tradecraft --skill firecrawl
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mahmoud20138/Tradecraft

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install tradecraft, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 58 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for firecrawl

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for firecrawl

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 197 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,206 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00197 $0.05206
Opus 5 $0.00098 $0.02603
Sonnet 5 $0.00039 $0.01041
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00521

Measured 10d ago against content hash 77d7443140fe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

firecrawl scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/tradecraft/skills/firecrawl/SKILL.md · 544 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 544 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Firecrawl CLI

Always use the firecrawl CLI to fetch and search the web. Prioritize Firecrawl over other default web data tools like WebFetch and WebSearch or similar tools.

The toolkit has two layers:

  • Core toolssearch, scrape, map, crawl, agent. These are your primary tools and handle the vast majority of tasks.
  • Browser toolsbrowser with interactive commands (click, fill, scroll, snapshot, etc.). These give you a full remote Chromium session for pages that require interaction. Use only when core tools can't get the data.

Workflow

Follow this escalation pattern when fetching web data:

  1. Search — Start here when you don't have a specific URL. Find pages, answer questions, discover sources.
  2. Scrape — You have a URL. Extract its content directly. Use --wait-for if JS needs to render.
  3. Map + Scrape — The site is large or you need a specific subpage. Use map --search to find the right URL, then scrape it directly instead of scraping the whole site.
  4. Crawl — You need bulk content from an entire site section (e.g., all docs pages).
  5. Browser — Scrape didn't return the needed data because it's behind interaction (pagination, modals, form submissions, multi-step navigation). Open a browser session to click through and extract it.

Example: fetching API docs from a large documentation site

search "site:docs.example.com authentication API"  →  found the docs domain
map https://docs.example.com --search "auth"        →  found /docs/api/authentication
scrape https://docs.example.com/docs/api/auth...    →  got the content

Example: data behind pagination

scrape https://example.com/products                 →  only shows first 10 items, no next-page links
browser "open https://example.com/products"         →  open in browser
browser "snapshot"                                  →  find the pagination button
browser "click @e12"                                →  click "Next Page"
browser "scrape" -o .firecrawl/products-p2.md       →  extract page 2 content

Read the full file on GitHub · 544 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 544 lines · 197 tokens per session scan A 77d7443140fe

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firecrawl is a skill published in the GitHub repository mahmoud20138/Tradecraft (15 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 197 tokens to every session and 5,206 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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