Connect FireCrawl to Codex
Give Codex governed access to FireCrawl’s 28 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.
Set up
Add FireCrawl to Codex in four steps
Admins approve the server once. Everyone in Codex then gets it through the same governed connection.
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Approve FireCrawl in Runlayer
Add FireCrawl from the catalog and choose who can use it and which of its tools are allowed.
- 2
Connect Codex to Runlayer
Runlayer’s CLI adds the Runlayer Plugin to Codex’s local plugin marketplace, and users then enable it in Codex. With direct tool listing turned on for your deployment, FireCrawl’s 28 tools show up in Codex’s own tool list (Codex 0.122 or newer, installed through the Runlayer CLI).
Codex setup guide - 3
Sign in to FireCrawl
An admin adds FireCrawl credentials to Runlayer once. They never sit in the client’s configuration.
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Use FireCrawl from Codex
FireCrawl’s approved tools appear in Codex. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.
Tools
28 FireCrawl tools in Codex
Runlayer policy decides which of these Codex users can call.
Agent
Run web research that returns structured data when the URLs are not known or the answer spans several sites.
Agent status
Retrieve progress or final results for a firecrawl_agent job ID.
Check crawl status
Retrieve the current status, progress, and available results for an existing crawl ID.
Crawl
Start a multi-page crawl at a website URL, poll it to a terminal state, and return the final status and collected data.
Credit usage
Get the authenticated Firecrawl team's current credit balance or historical credit consumption.
Developer search
Search an index of public repositories, GitHub issues, merged pull requests, repository READMEs, and code documentation for programming questions that need external documentation or upstream evidence.
Feedback
Submit concise quality feedback for a completed search, scrape, parse, or map job.
Find tools
Browse Alexandria data providers and workflows or read a selected contract.
Control
What Runlayer can see and stop in Codex
Some controls apply to every client at the gateway. Others depend on what Codex exposes to Runlayer.
Gateway policy (available)
Every FireCrawl call from Codex passes through Runlayer, where your policies can allow, alert, mask, or block it.
Audit trail (available)
Each call is recorded with the user, Codex as the client, the tool, and the policy and scanner decisions.
Client hooks (available)
Capture supported prompts, reasoning, local and MCP tool calls, responses, and scanner decisions in real time.
Stop a call before it runs (available)
Runlayer can deny a tool call or permission request before Codex runs it.
Block output after it runs (available)
Runlayer can block a tool’s output before Codex’s model sees it.
Redact output in place (not available)
Codex cannot take masked output, so Runlayer can block a tool’s output but not mask it. The gateway still applies policy to the call.
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