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name: firecrawl
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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. For papers use firecrawl-research-index; for library, API, error, or bug questions use firecrawl-developer-index.
Any live-web task via Firecrawl (its MCP tools when connected, otherwise the 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. For papers use firecrawl-research-index; for library, API, error, or bug questions use firecrawl-developer-index.
allowed-tools:
- Bash(firecrawl *)
- Bash(npx firecrawl-cli *)
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Run `firecrawl --help` or `firecrawl <command> --help` for full option details. For app integration or outcome workflows (research briefs, SEO audits, etc.), route to the `firecrawl-build` / `firecrawl-workflows` skills — see [When to Load References](#when-to-load-references).

## Firecrawl MCP tools

If Firecrawl MCP tools (names starting `firecrawl_`) are available in this session, use them instead of the CLI for what they cover. Don't install, authenticate, or run the CLI for those tasks.

| Need | MCP tool |
| ------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Find pages on a topic | `firecrawl_search` |
| Get a page's content | `firecrawl_scrape` with a `url` |
| Answer a coding question | `firecrawl_developer_search` |
| Find or read papers | `firecrawl_research_search_papers`, then `firecrawl_research_read_paper` |
| Structured data providers | `firecrawl_find_tools`, then `firecrawl_scrape` with an `alexandria` body |

The connected server's tool list is the authority, and some connections expose only the tools above. For a need outside that list (map, crawl, interact, monitor, download, parse), use the CLI when a shell is available; otherwise say this connection doesn't support it. Everything below applies when no Firecrawl MCP tools are connected.

## Prerequisites

Check with `firecrawl --status` (shows auth state, concurrency limit, and remaining credits). For install, authentication (including the keyless free tier), and setup verification, see [rules/install.md](rules/install.md). For output handling guidelines, see [rules/security.md](rules/security.md).
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