apify-actor-development

A development tool for Apify Actors, which are serverless cloud programs used for web scraping, automation, and data processing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build new Actors, update existing ones, deploy them, or investigate problems in Actor code.
Why use it?
It helps with the code and deployment work involved in creating, changing, debugging, and publishing Actors.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the agent-skills plugin — 5 skills, 1 command, 1 agent shipped together

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 skills/apify/agent-skills/apify-actor-development
Any agent
npx skills add apify/agent-skills --skill apify-actor-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/apify/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 1 command, 1 agent.

Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,670 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00045 $0.03670
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01835
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00734
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00367

Measured 3d ago against content hash 352326657e44, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

apify-actor-development scanned grade C with 2 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 3d ago.

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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

> (e.g. `curl … | bash` or `irm … | iex`). Always use a package manager.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

> (e.g. `curl … | bash` or `irm … | iex`). Always use a package manager.
skills/apify-actor-development/SKILL.md · 303 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

8 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 303 lines · 45 tokens per session scan C 352326657e44

Subscribe to this mod's changes

apify-actor-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository apify/agent-skills (2,363 stars, last pushed 6d ago), with no licence file. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 3,670 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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