apify-actor-development
Create, modify, debug, and deploy Apify Actors, and write their input and output schemas. Use when building an Actor from scratch, changing or troubleshooting Actor code, generating or updating .actor schema files, or pushing an Actor to the Apify platform. To wrap an existing non-Actor project, use apify-actorization instead.
Before you install
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- apify/agent-skills
Skills are plain text instructions the agent follows, sometimes with scripts. Check the source, prefer repositories with many installs and stars, and read any script it ships.
Install
npx skills add apify/agent-skills@apify-actor-developmentRuns in a terminal with Node.js 18 or newer. Add -y to skip the prompts and -g to install for every project instead of this one.
Install for your agent
npx skills add apify/agent-skills@apify-actor-development --agent claude-code -y- Project install writes to
.claude/skills/apify-actor-development- Global install writes to
~/.claude/skills/apify-actor-development
Start a new session afterwards so the agent picks the skill up. In Claude Code you can also call it directly with /apify-actor-development.
What it does
Apify Actor development An Actor is a serverless program packaged as a Docker image. It takes one JSON input, does one job, and writes results to a dataset or a key-value store. Setup Install with a package manager, npm install -g apify-cli or brew install apify-cli, so the download is integrity-checked. Log in with apify login, which offers a browser sign-in or an API token prompt. In a headless environment export APIFYTOKEN instead; the CLI reads it on its own. Tokens come from https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations. Pass the token only through the environment, so it stays out of…
Excerpt from the skill's own SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub before installing: skills run with your agent's permissions.
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