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Apify Actor Development skill

apify-actor-developmentapify/agent-skillsskills/apify-actor-development/SKILL.md

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.

2.5k

always on

75 tokname + description

once used

2,749 tokSKILL.md body

bundled files

627 KB

repo stars

2.5kGitHub

Install the Apify Actor Development skill

Skills CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others)

npx skills add https://github.com/apify/agent-skills --skill apify-actor-development

Claude Code, by hand (all projects)

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/apify/agent-skills.git /tmp/agent-skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -R /tmp/agent-skills/skills/apify-actor-development ~/.claude/skills/apify-actor-development

For one project only, copy the folder into .claude/skills/ in that project instead. The agent picks it up when a task matches its description.

What it costs your context

Agent Skills load in three steps. Tokens counted with the o200k tokenizer; your model's count will differ a little.

WhenWhat loadsCost
Every sessionName and description75 tok
When the agent uses itThe SKILL.md instructions2,749 tok
Only if opened6 bundled files (27 KB)varies

Until it is used, apify-actor-development costs about 18× less than the median MCP server we measured (1,363 tokens on every turn). Installing all 5 skills from apify/agent-skills would load 372 tokens of descriptions. Skills vs MCP study

Checks

Our checks found nothing to flag: it follows the Agent Skills specification's naming and size guidelines and doesn't pipe downloads into a shell.

Checked 2026-10-22 · method

What's inside

The headings of its SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub.

  • Apify Actor development
  • Setup
  • Telemetry attribution (required)
  • Workflow
  • Rules
  • Standby mode
  • Monetization
  • Calling other Actors
  • Less obvious commands
  • Documentation

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