firecrawl

firecrawl is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from melodic-software/claude-code-plugins. It costs 186 tokens per session (3,014 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line tool for searching, scraping, crawling, mapping, parsing, and interacting with web pages. It saves results to disk so an agent can read only the relevant parts of large web responses.

In plain words
What is it for?
It can scrape a page, search the web, crawl a site, map its pages, parse files, interact with web pages, and monitor sites.
Why use it?
It helps retrieve web content when ordinary page fetching is blocked or when returning an entire large page would consume too much working context.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the firecrawl plugin — 2 skills shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins/firecrawl
Any agent
npx skills add melodic-software/claude-code-plugins --skill firecrawl
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install firecrawl, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 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
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins/firecrawl.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins/firecrawl)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins/firecrawl"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins/firecrawl.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 186 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,014 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00186 $0.03014
Opus 5 $0.00093 $0.01507
Sonnet 5 $0.00037 $0.00603
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00301

Measured yesterday against content hash 7bcddf9fd287, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

firecrawl scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 yesterday.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- **Transient DNS 503 on `api.firecrawl.dev` from sandboxed sessions.** Some cloud egress proxies intermittently return "DNS cache overflow". Retry after ~30s. This affects both the CLI and direct curl; it's an egress is
plugins/firecrawl/skills/firecrawl/SKILL.md · 144 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 144 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pre-computed context

Status: !command -v firecrawl >/dev/null 2>&1 && { firecrawl --status 2>/dev/null | head -10; :; } || echo "NOT INSTALLED — run: npm install -g firecrawl-cli"

The firecrawl --status line above includes auth state. If it shows unauthenticated (or the CLI is missing), the fix is: obtain a key from the https://firecrawl.dev dashboard and set FIRECRAWL_API_KEY as an OS user environment variable.

Purpose

firecrawl-cli is the CLI alternative to the firecrawl-mcp MCP server. It wraps api.firecrawl.dev with agent defaults: retry/rotation on anti-bot blocks, JS rendering, and an -o <path> flag that writes results to disk instead of streaming into the conversation.

When WebFetch fails on a large page and an MCP equivalent would dump 30K tokens of raw markdown into context, this skill writes to a tempfile and lets the agent Read only the slice it needs. Scalekit benchmark measured 32–35× token savings vs the MCP on comparable tasks.

When to reach for this skill

Situation Command Why
WebFetch returned 403/429 (Cloudflare, PerimeterX, rate limit) firecrawl scrape Managed IP rotation + headless browser
Page is a SPA or requires JS rendering firecrawl scrape WebFetch is a plain HTTP client. No JS
Page needs clicks, form fills, or login firecrawl interact Full browser actions, not just fetch
Need web search, not a known URL firecrawl search Search-and-scrape in one call
Discovering all URLs on a site firecrawl map Cheap URL-only discovery
Bulk extraction across a site firecrawl crawl Follows links, respects depth
Local PDF / DOCX / XLSX / HTML file on disk → markdown firecrawl parse Server-side text extraction; no local Office tooling required
Natural-language "find me X on the web" firecrawl agent Hosted agent with Spark models

When NOT to use this skill

  • WebFetch works. WebFetch burns no Firecrawl credits and is faster for simple, unprotected pages.
  • A doc-site-specialist tool is a better fit for official docs. If the session has a documentation MCP with a headless-browser backend and caching (e.g. Ref), try it before Firecrawl on known docs hosts.
  • You want a training-data summary, not primary source. A synthesis tool (e.g. a Perplexity MCP, if available) is designed for that.

Read the full file on GitHub · 144 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. yesterday First seen · 144 lines · 186 tokens per session scan A 7bcddf9fd287

Subscribe to this mod's changes

firecrawl is a skill published in the GitHub repository melodic-software/claude-code-plugins (14 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 186 tokens to every session and 3,014 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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