Firecrawl has open-sourced its Web Agent framework, enabling developers to create AI agents for autonomous web tasks. The framework supports integration with models like Anthropic and OpenAI, emphasizing flexibility and self-hosting. It uses a "Plan-Act" mechanism, allowing agents to break tasks into steps and execute them via parallel subagents in separate browser sessions. This design is ideal for large-scale tasks, such as extracting real-time stock data from multiple sites. Developers can quickly generate agent templates and use "Skill.md" files for reusable workflows. The framework, now under the MIT license, includes an upgraded model, Claude Opus 4.7, and a financial sector skill package.