firecrawl-competitive-intel Skill for Claude: What It Does and How to Install It

Makes your agent monitor competitors over time: pricing tiers, features, changelogs and product changes, with sources.

Installs: 31.4K; on skills.sh
Stars: 214; on GitHub
Updated: Nov 2026; last repo commit

This skill makes your agent visit each competitor's pricing page, feature pages, changelog, blog and docs updates, and report plans, limits, features and recent changes. SKILL.md says it is for monitoring over time and is not the broad competitor analysis workflow.

It returns alerts, a per-competitor breakdown and a cross-competitor comparison, and keeps sources so a later run can be compared. It needs a Firecrawl API key and the Firecrawl CLI.

Good for

Product marketers tracking competitor pricing and positioning
Founders who check rivals' plans and release notes
Teams that want alerts on competitor changes

Install firecrawl-competitive-intel

Claude Code

Copy this prompt.

Install the firecrawl-competitive-intel skill in Claude Code. Run this command:

/plugin marketplace add firecrawl/firecrawl-workflows
/plugin install firecrawl-workflows@firecrawl-workflows

Then check that it loaded and tell me how to use it.

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Paste it into Claude Code. It shows the change and asks before running it.

Pick one route. The plugin routes install the whole firecrawl-workflows plugin: 16 skills (counted from the skills list in its plugin.json), and the repo tree has no hooks, agents or MCP config files. The skills-only routes install just firecrawl-competitive-intel. The skill drives the Firecrawl CLI and needs a Firecrawl API key. Install the Firecrawl CLI first, since the skill runs firecrawl commands: npm install -g firecrawl-cli (Firecrawl CLI docs), or npx -y firecrawl-cli@latest init -y --browser to install it, sign in and add the shared skills in one step. Then run firecrawl login or export FIRECRAWL_API_KEY. Who pays: the Firecrawl account that owns the key. Every call uses credits; a new account starts on the free plan with 1,000 credits a month and no card. Per Firecrawl's billing docs: scrape 1 credit per page; Interact (browser sessions) 2 to 7 credits per browser minute.

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What's in the skill

When it loads

Monitor competitor pricing, features, changelogs, dashboards, and product changes with Firecrawl. Use for recurring competitive intelligence, pricing tier extraction, feature change tracking, or structured competitor alerts.

Sections in SKILL.md

Onboarding Interview
Firecrawl Collection Plan
Parallel Work
Final Deliverable
Alerts
Per-Competitor Breakdown
Cross-Competitor Comparison
Suggested Follow-Ups
Sources
Rerun Inputs
JSON Shape
Quality Bar

Key facts

Author: Firecrawl (frontmatter author, and the repo owner)
License: ISC (frontmatter and the README)
Installs on skills.sh: 31,413 (Nov 2, 2026)
GitHub stars: 214 for the whole firecrawl/firecrawl-workflows repo (Nov 2, 2026)
Last repo commit: Nov 1, 2026
What it includes: 1 file: SKILL.md (bundles no scripts)
Needs: A Firecrawl API key (FIRECRAWL_API_KEY) with credits, and the Firecrawl CLI (npm install -g firecrawl-cli)
Part of: The firecrawl-workflows plugin: 16 skills in its Claude plugin.json (counted), 19 skill folders in the repo tree
Works in: AI coding agents, per the README. The repo also ships plugin manifests for Claude Code, Codex and Cursor

What it includes

Reads pricing tiers, including annual and monthly toggles and expanded feature tables
Uses Firecrawl scrape or a browser as needed.
Network · Pricing pages
Reads feature pages, changelogs, blogs, release notes and docs updates
Real plan names, limits and dates are extracted when available.
Network · Features and changes
Opens authenticated dashboards only when you have legitimate access
Listed as an optional source.
Network · Signed-in dashboards
One competitor or one focus area per researcher
Each returns pricing tiers, features, recent changes, source URLs and confidence notes.
Runs code · Parallel researchers
Six sections from Alerts to Rerun Inputs
Alerts, Per-Competitor Breakdown, Cross-Competitor Comparison, Suggested Follow-Ups, Sources and Rerun Inputs. Contact-sales or gated details are noted, not guessed.
Read · Intel report
generatedAt, competitors, pricing, recentChanges, features, sources
The structure to use when you ask for structured output.
Write · JSON output

From the official docs

Permissions

Low risk

It scrapes competitor sites through Firecrawl using your API key. Only give it signed-in access to dashboards you are allowed to use.

What it can do

Read your data
Create and change things
Delete things
Read-only mode

Watch out for

Signed-in dashboards are an optional source
SKILL.md allows authenticated dashboards only where you have legitimate access. Leave them out unless you need them. github.com
It spends your Firecrawl credits
Every call is billed in credits to the account behind the key. Per Firecrawl's billing docs: scrape 1 credit per page; Interact (browser sessions) 2 to 7 credits per browser minute. A free account has 1,000 credits a month, so a large run can use it up. docs.firecrawl.dev
Plan data can be incomplete
SKILL.md says to note gated or contact-sales details and not guess. Treat a missing price as unknown. github.com

Security advisories

No published security advisories as of Nov 2, 2026.

Technical details

Turning on read-only	No read-only mode is documented in SKILL.md. Use version control for files it writes.
Talks to	Firecrawl hosted service. Competitor websites, changelogs and blogs
Sign-in and keys	SKILL.md declares FIRECRAWL_API_KEY as a required input. It does not say where the key or any dashboard login is kept.
Scopes	Runs Firecrawl scrape and browser actions with your API key Can open authenticated dashboards when you have legitimate access Spends credits on the Firecrawl account that owns your API key

Questions

What does the firecrawl-competitive-intel skill do?

It makes your agent monitor competitors. It collects pricing tiers, features and changelog entries and reports what changed, with sources to compare against on the next run.

How do I install it in Claude Code or Codex?

Use the install box at the top of this page. Each client has a plugin route and skills CLI commands. Install the Firecrawl CLI first (npm install -g firecrawl-cli, per its docs), then run firecrawl login or set FIRECRAWL_API_KEY.

Who pays for it?

You do, through the Firecrawl account that owns your API key. Firecrawl bills in credits, and a new account starts on the free plan with 1,000 credits a month and no card. Per its billing docs: scrape 1 credit per page; Interact (browser sessions) 2 to 7 credits per browser minute. Check your balance with firecrawl credit-usage.

Does it run on a schedule?

SKILL.md records a cadence of one-off, weekly or monthly as a rerun input. The repo's authoring guide says a workflow does not need to implement a scheduler, so scheduling is up to you or another system.

What if a competitor hides its pricing?

SKILL.md says to note contact-sales or gated details instead of guessing.

Is it safe to install?

It is a single SKILL.md file and bundles no scripts. When it runs, your agent scrapes competitor sites through Firecrawl with your API key. Only give it dashboard access you are allowed to use.

Information

updated Nov 2, 2026

Repository: firecrawl/firecrawl-workflows
Folder: skills/firecrawl-competitive-intel

firecrawl/firecrawl-workflows skills.sh

Sources

Docs, issue trackers and discussions this page is built from.

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firecrawl-competitive-intel SKILL.md · github.com
firecrawl-workflows README · github.com
firecrawl-workflows plugin.json · github.com
firecrawl-workflows marketplace.json · github.com
firecrawl-workflows Codex plugin.json · github.com
workflow-authoring.md · github.com
Firecrawl CLI docs · docs.firecrawl.dev
Firecrawl billing and credits · docs.firecrawl.dev
firecrawl/cli README · github.com