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firecrawl-cost-tuning

Optimize Firecrawl costs through crawl limits, format selection, caching, and credit monitoring. Use when analyzing Firecrawl billing, reducing API costs, or implementing credit budget alerts. Trigger with phrases like "firecrawl cost", "firecrawl billing", "reduce firecrawl costs", "firecrawl pricing", "firecrawl credits", "firecrawl budget".

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Quality

88%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

No eval scenarios have been run

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Advisory

Suggest reviewing before use

SKILL.md
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Quality

Discovery

100%

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

This is a well-crafted skill description that clearly defines its scope (Firecrawl cost optimization), lists concrete actions, provides explicit 'Use when' guidance, and includes a comprehensive set of natural trigger phrases. It follows the third-person voice convention and is concise without being vague. The narrow domain focus makes it highly distinctive and unlikely to conflict with other skills.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Lists multiple specific concrete actions: crawl limits, format selection, caching, credit monitoring, billing analysis, API cost reduction, and credit budget alerts.

3 / 3

Completeness

Clearly answers both 'what' (optimize Firecrawl costs through crawl limits, format selection, caching, credit monitoring) and 'when' (explicit 'Use when' clause plus a 'Trigger with phrases like' section with specific terms).

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Excellent coverage of natural trigger terms users would say: 'firecrawl cost', 'firecrawl billing', 'reduce firecrawl costs', 'firecrawl pricing', 'firecrawl credits', 'firecrawl budget'. These are realistic phrases a user would type.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Highly distinctive — targets a very specific niche (Firecrawl cost optimization) with domain-specific trigger terms that are unlikely to conflict with other skills.

3 / 3

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Implementation

77%

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

This is a strong, highly actionable skill with executable code examples and a clear step-by-step workflow for reducing Firecrawl costs. Its main weakness is moderate verbosity—some explanatory prose and inline comments could be trimmed—and the content is somewhat long for a single file without supporting bundle files for the more detailed implementations like the CreditBudget class.

Suggestions

Trim the overview paragraph and remove obvious inline comments (e.g., '// Free — no API call', '// Typical savings: 50-80%') to improve conciseness.

Extract the CreditBudget class and caching implementation into separate referenced files to improve progressive disclosure and reduce SKILL.md length.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The overview paragraph explaining what Firecrawl credits are and the '50-80% savings' marketing-style claim is unnecessary padding. The credit cost table is useful but the surrounding prose could be tighter. Some inline comments are helpful but others restate the obvious (e.g., '// Free — no API call').

2 / 3

Actionability

Every step includes fully executable TypeScript or bash code with concrete examples, specific API calls, real parameter names, and clear before/after cost comparisons. The code is copy-paste ready with proper imports and error handling.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

The six steps form a clear, logically sequenced workflow from setting limits → targeted scraping → mapping → caching → monitoring → format selection. Step 5 includes a budget enforcement mechanism that acts as a validation checkpoint before operations, and the error handling table provides recovery guidance.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

The content is well-structured with clear sections, but at ~150 lines it's somewhat long for a single file. The credit budget tracker class and caching implementation could be extracted to referenced files. The 'Next Steps' reference to 'firecrawl-reference-architecture' is good but there are no bundle files to support it, and no other references exist.

2 / 3

Total

10

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12

Passed

Validation

81%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation9 / 11 Passed

Validation for skill structure

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'allowed-tools' contains unusual tool name(s)

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Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata

Warning

Total

9

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11

Passed

Repository
jeremylongshore/claude-code-plugins-plus-skills
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