Firecrawl Build Search

Integrate Firecrawl `/search` into product code and agent workflows. Use when an app needs discovery before extraction, when the feature starts with a query instead of a URL, or when the system should search the web and optionally hydrate result content.

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Install

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more)

npx skills add firecrawl/firecrawl --skill firecrawl-build-search

Manual install

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl.git /tmp/firecrawl
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/firecrawl/skills/firecrawl-build-search ~/.claude/skills/firecrawl-build-search

Personal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.

From the SKILL.md

# Firecrawl Build Search

Use this when the application starts with a query, not a URL.

## Use This When

- the user asks a question and the product must discover sources first
- the feature needs current web results
- you want to turn a search query into a shortlist of pages for later scraping

## Default Recommendations

- Use `/search` first when URL discovery is part of the product behavior.
- Keep search and extraction conceptually separate unless scraping search results is clearly required.
- Prefer selective follow-up extraction over broad hydration when cost or latency matters.

## Common Product Patterns

- answer generation with cited sources
- company, competitor, or topic discovery
- research workflows that produce a shortlist of **web pages** before deeper extraction
- query-to-URL pipelines for later `/scrape` or `/interact`

Note that "research workflow" here means discovering web pages. If the product is
searching **published papers**, that is a different surface — see the escalation
rules below.

## Escalation Rules

- If you already have the URL, use [firecrawl-build-scrape](../firecrawl-build-scrape/SKILL.md).
- If the result page then requires clicks or form interaction, escalate to [firecrawl-build-interact](../firecrawl-build-interact/SKILL.md).

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Details

Skill name: firecrawl-build-search
Repository: firecrawl/firecrawl
Path: skills/firecrawl-build-search/SKILL.md
License: AGPL-3.0
Repo updated: 31 October 2026

FAQ

What does the Firecrawl Build Search skill do?

How do I install the Firecrawl Build Search skill?

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add firecrawl/firecrawl --skill firecrawl-build-search. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.

Is Firecrawl Build Search popular?

It lives in firecrawl/firecrawl, which has 197,254 GitHub stars and 10,416 forks.

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