A local Node.js MCP server from Apify, a platform for running web and data-collection programs. It starts dist/stdio.js and communicates through standard input and output.

Use it when an agent needs the Apify tools exposed by the standard stdio server. It runs with Node.js and the APIFY_TOKEN environment variable.

It provides a local agent connection to Apify without exposing an HTTP endpoint. It requires an Apify token and, optionally, an extra certificate setting.

stdio — MCP server by apify

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods

npx agentmods add mcp/apify/apify-mcp-server/stdio

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/apify/apify-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode.

Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.

When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.

Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Security

Grade A, and why

stdio scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.mcp.json · 12 lines

What it actually says

{
  "stdio": {
    "command": "node",
    "args": [
      "dist/stdio.js"
    ],
    "env": {
      "APIFY_TOKEN": "${APIFY_TOKEN}",
      "NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS": "${NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS}"
    }
  }
}

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

yesterday First seen · 12 lines scan A d5f088d37ee3

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stdio is an MCP server published in the GitHub repository apify/apify-mcp-server (5,486 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: an MCP server costs its tool schemas, not its config file. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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stdio

Getting it into your agent

Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

What it actually says

What this file has done since we first saw it

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