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fix: relay the upgrade line when Firecrawl usage runs out - #547

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When an account runs out of credits, or use without an account reaches its daily limit, the agent should finish what it can and tell the person how to keep going. Today a crawl that hits a 402 shows only Request failed with status code 402, the keyless message calls its limit a rate limit and gives the agent nothing to relay, and the server instructions are silent on both.

Summary

  • Server instructions (src/server.ts): both default profiles open with one sentence, first so clients that shorten instructions keep it:

    If Firecrawl reports that credits ran out or the daily limit without an account was reached, end your final answer with the line it provides, link included.

    The trigger names both cases as the errors state them, and matches neither the free plan's monthly credits nor an ordinary rate limit. The rest of the instructions is unchanged: 3,411 characters authenticated and 1,565 keyless, inside Claude Code's current 4,096 limit, with the pinned routing copy still ending at character 1,774, inside the older 2,048 limit.

  • Daily limit without an account (src/recovery.ts): search, scrape and parse return

    Firecrawl's daily limit without an account was reached.
    
    <setup steps, unchanged>
    
    Finish the task without Firecrawl, then end your answer with this line:
    You've reached Firecrawl's daily limit without an account. Sign up free for 1,000 credits a month: <signup link>
    

    The relay line closes the message. A 429 without a known reason gets a generic message instead, since its cause may be transient.

  • Crawl errors (src/server.ts): firecrawl_crawl relays the API's error text, so an account out of credits sees the upgrade link. Search (3.30.2), scrape, map and agent already did.

  • Release 3.30.3.

Test Plan

  • pnpm test: 171 of 171 pass.
  • End to end, keyless: search, scrape and hosted parse against a 429 with reason: "credits" return KEYLESS_QUOTA_EXHAUSTED ending with the relay line; a 429 without a reason returns KEYLESS_LIMIT_REACHED with no daily limit claim and no relay line.
  • End to end, account: search, scrape, map and crawl against a 402 each show the API's text. Without the crawl change, crawl shows only Request failed with status code 402.
  • Smoke tests pin the sentence at the start of both profiles; routing copy assertions still pass inside the first 2,048 characters.
  • Contract snapshots regenerated; every change is the prepended sentence.
  • tsc --noEmit and eslint are clean.

The keyless message for an exhausted daily allowance called it a rate
limit and gave the agent no line to pass on, so the signup link rarely
reached the user. It now asks the agent to finish the task without
Firecrawl and end its answer with one line that carries the signup link.

Both default server instructions now open with one sentence for any tool
that reports credits or free usage ran out. It leads so clients that cut
instructions short keep it. The rest of the instructions is unchanged,
and the routing copy still sits inside the first 2,048 characters.

Release 3.30.3.

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All reported issues were addressed across 14 files

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The message asked the agent to end its answer with the signup line, then
added the setup steps after it, so the line was not the last thing the
agent read. The setup steps now come first and the relay line closes the
message. The end to end check also covers firecrawl_parse, whose keyless
calls reach the API through a separate path.
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0 issues found across 3 files (changes from recent commits).

Confidence score: 5/5

  • Automated review surfaced no issues in the provided summaries.
  • No files require special attention.

Auto-approved: Fixes keyless quota-exhaustion messaging so agents relay the signup line, prepends matching guidance to both server instruction profiles, and updates tests/snapshots; bounded to messaging and verified by new e2e and smoke tests.

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"Free daily usage" read like the free plan, which gives 1,000 credits a
month. The daily cap only applies to use without an account, so the
message now says so, and the relay line tells the user what signing up
gets them. The instruction sentence names both cases, credits running
out on an account and the daily limit without one, so it cannot be read
as the free plan or match an ordinary rate limit.

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All reported issues were addressed across 11 files (changes from recent commits).

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cubic-dev-ai Bot dismissed their stale review October 16, 2026 03:05

Dismissed because Cubic found issues in a newer review.

A keyless 429 without a known reason shared the daily limit message, so
it named a cause that may not apply and told the agent to stop. It now
gets a generic message.

firecrawl_crawl started crawls with a raw HTTP call, so an account out
of credits saw only "Request failed with status code 402". It now
relays the API's text like search does.

The instruction sentence returns to the tested wording, widening only
the trigger to what the errors actually say.
@Max17190 Max17190 changed the title fix(keyless): ask agents to relay the upgrade line when usage runs out fix: relay the upgrade line when Firecrawl usage runs out Oct 16, 2026

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0 issues found across 11 files (changes from recent commits).

Confidence score: 5/5

  • Automated review surfaced no issues in the provided summaries.
  • No files require special attention.

Auto-approved: Bounded fix to out-of-credits messaging: crawl now relays the API's error text, keyless quota and transient-limit messages are corrected with a relay line, server instructions are updated, and e2e/smoke tests pin the behavior.

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