firecrawl
This skill contains shell command directives (!`command`) that may execute system commands. Review carefully before installing.
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.