Agent skill · Firecrawl

Firecrawl skill for Claude Code, Codex and Cursor

Uses the Firecrawl CLI for web search, page extraction, site mapping and bulk downloads.

Officialname: firecrawl★ 137 (repo)pushed 2026-10-22ISCSKILL.md on GitHubchecked 2026-11-07

What it does, in the publisher's words

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.

The description field of the SKILL.md. The agent reads only this at startup and decides from it when to load the full skill.

Install Firecrawl

The skills CLI copies the skill into the folder of each agent you pick (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Windsurf...). Add -g for all projects. Needs Node.js 22.20+. docs

npx skills add firecrawl/skills --skill firecrawl

This repo is a plugin marketplace. Inside Claude Code, add it and install the plugin that holds the skill (firecrawl), or copy only this skill into ~/.claude/skills. docs

/plugin marketplace add firecrawl/skills
/plugin install <plugin>@firecrawl-skills

# or only this skill:
npx skills add firecrawl/skills --skill firecrawl -a claude-code

Download the skill folder, zip it, then Customize > Skills > + > Create skill > Upload a skill. Code execution must be on (Settings > Capabilities). docs

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/firecrawl/skills.git /tmp/firecrawl-src
cp -r /tmp/firecrawl-src/skills/core/firecrawl ./firecrawl
zip -r firecrawl.zip firecrawl

Codex reads skills from .agents/skills in the repo or ~/.agents/skills. Type $ in Codex to use one. docs

npx skills add firecrawl/skills --skill firecrawl -a codex

gh skill (GitHub CLI 2.90+, preview) installs it for Copilot in VS Code, the CLI and the cloud agent. Copilot also reads .github/skills and ~/.copilot/skills. docs

gh skill install firecrawl/skills firecrawl

Cursor reads .cursor/skills, .agents/skills and ~/.cursor/skills (and .claude/skills). It does not install loose skills from a GitHub URL, so copy it in. docs

npx skills add firecrawl/skills --skill firecrawl -a cursor

Installs from the GitHub repo; --path picks this skill out of the repo. Default scope is user (all projects). docs

gemini skills install https://github.com/firecrawl/skills.git --path skills/core/firecrawl

OpenCode reads .opencode/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills and the Claude and .agents folders. docs

npx skills add firecrawl/skills --skill firecrawl -a opencode

Windsurf (now Devin Desktop) reads .devin/skills, .windsurf/skills and ~/.codeium/windsurf/skills. docs

npx skills add firecrawl/skills --skill firecrawl -a windsurf

Works with

Claude Code, Claude.ai and Claude Desktop, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Windsurf and other agents that read the open Agent Skills format.

Pre-approves these tools (allowed-tools, experimental in the spec): Bash(firecrawl *) Bash(npx firecrawl-cli *).

What's in the SKILL.md

8 sections

Prerequisites
Workflow
Large results and Alexandria
When to Load References
Output & Organization
Feedback
Parallelization
Credit Usage

Bundled files

rules/install.md
rules/security.md

Loaded only when the instructions point to them.

Facts

Skill name: firecrawl
Publisher: Firecrawl (official)
Repo: firecrawl/skills
License: ISC
SKILL.md size: 1,383 words, 154 lines
Bundled files: 2, 2 docs
Repo stars: 137 (as of 2026-10-24)
SKILL.md checked: 2026-11-07

Pairs with the Firecrawl MCP server: the server gives the agent the tools, the skill teaches it how to use them.

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FAQ

What does the firecrawl skill do?+

Uses the Firecrawl CLI for web search, page extraction, site mapping and bulk downloads. In its own SKILL.md, Firecrawl describes it as: "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."

How do I install the firecrawl skill?+

Run npx skills add firecrawl/skills --skill firecrawl and pick your agents, or use the tab for your agent above. In Claude Code the skill ends up in ~/.claude/skills/firecrawl/SKILL.md; in Codex and Cursor in .agents/skills/firecrawl/.

Does Firecrawl work in Codex, Cursor and Copilot, or only Claude?+

It's a standard SKILL.md, so any agent that reads the Agent Skills format can use it: Claude Code, the Claude apps, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Windsurf and more.

Who maintains Firecrawl?+

Firecrawl, the company or project behind it, in the firecrawl/skills repo on GitHub, last pushed 2026-10-22. License: ISC.

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