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firecrawl - Issues

§1, §10, §45 - Auth-required commands exit 0 after printing an interactive prompt

Date: 2026-05-27 Trigger: ./node_modules/.bin/firecrawl scrape https://example.com with stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL and no FIRECRAWL_API_KEY Observed: Exit code 0 with a stdout login prompt ending in Enter choice [1/2]:. Impact: Agents may treat the command as successful even though no scrape occurred, and may attempt to parse prompt text as result data.

§64 - Browser login hangs in headless execution

Date: 2026-05-27 Trigger: ./node_modules/.bin/firecrawl login --browser with DISPLAY unset and stdin closed Observed: The CLI printed an auth URL, then repeatedly waited for browser authentication until the 4s external timeout killed it. Impact: Agents need an external timeout and URL extraction workaround for browser auth.

§2 - JSON mode does not cover error/auth paths

Date: 2026-05-27 Trigger: ./node_modules/.bin/firecrawl search firecrawl --json without credentials Observed: Exit code 0 with a human login prompt on stdout instead of JSON. Impact: Agents cannot safely rely on --json before authentication.

§13 - init --skip-skills reported skills installed

Date: 2026-05-27 Trigger: ./node_modules/.bin/firecrawl init -y --skip-install --skip-auth --skip-skills Observed: Exit code 0 and stdout included Skills installed across your AI coding agents despite --skip-skills. Impact: Agents cannot tell whether a skipped setup step actually ran, was skipped, or only reported stale status.

§23 - Destructive/config-mutating commands lack dry-run

Date: 2026-05-27 Trigger: ./node_modules/.bin/firecrawl logout --dry-run Observed: Exit code 1 with error: unknown option '--dry-run'. Impact: Agents cannot preview credential/config side effects before executing them.