Firecrawl (firecrawl)

What Firecrawl (firecrawl) is

Firecrawl (firecrawl) is a plugin published in the firecrawl/cli repository on GitHub, which has about 640 stars. The repository describes itself as: “CLI and Agent Skill for Firecrawl - Add scrape, search, and browsing capabilities to your AI agents”

A plugin is a package that bundles skills, slash commands, subagents, hooks, and MCP connectors so they install together. Plugins are plain files with a manifest at .claude-plugin/plugin.json, and they work in both Claude Code and Claude Cowork.

Installing Firecrawl adds everything it ships in one step. Connectors inside a plugin still need to be connected separately, and hooks and subagents only run in Cowork and Claude Code, not in regular chat.

How to install Firecrawl (firecrawl)

New to extending Cowork? Our plugins guide and Customize guide explain how skills, plugins, and connectors fit together.

Inside the source file

The repository does not declare an open-source license, so we list only the outline of the file here. Read the full text on GitHub.

• Installation
• Setup Skills, Workflows, and MCP
• Agent skills
• Quick Start
• Authentication
• Authentication Methods
• Self-hosted / Local Development
• Commands
• scrape - Scrape URLs
• search - Search the web
• developer - Search developer sources
• research - Search research papers
• feedback - Send endpoint job feedback
• map - Discover all URLs on a website

Open plugin.json on GitHub

Before you install

• Read the whole file first. Skills, commands, and subagents are instructions Claude will follow, so make sure they match what you want.
• Check which tools, scripts, or MCP servers it uses. Local servers and scripts run with your permissions.
• Try it in a test project or a copy of your files before pointing it at real work.
• Pin the version you tested, and review changes before updating.
• Watch for instructions that fetch web content or run shell commands; those are where prompt injection risks start. See our prompt injection guide.

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