dig

A guided helper for exploring the Apify MCP server, planning changes, or writing specifications for GitHub issues.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to understand existing behavior, assess a proposed change, design a feature, or prepare a detailed issue specification. The Apify MCP server is the codebase it is designed for.
Why use it?
It helps turn a broad technical question into an appropriate investigation or implementation plan without changing source files.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,060 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original 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 $0.00064 $0.02060
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01030
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00412
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00206

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7a5baa55a043, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dig 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 2d 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.

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.

.claude/skills/dig/SKILL.md · 159 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 159 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dig

Flexible skill for exploring, planning, and speccing work on the Apify MCP server. Do NOT edit source files — this skill is for understanding and planning only.

Step 0: Parse arguments and determine intent

$ARGUMENTS contains the user's request and optional repo path overrides.

Flags (optional):

Flag Default Purpose
--sdk ../typescript-sdk MCP SDK source repo path
--ext-apps ../ext-apps MCP Apps SDK source repo path
--internal ../apify-mcp-server-internal Internal server repo path

Everything not matching a flag is the user's request.

Resolution order for source repos: flag path → default sibling path → node_modules/ (compiled types only) → GitHub URL (last resort). Always verify the path exists before using it.

Determine the intent

Infer the intent from the user's natural language. There are three modes:

Intent What you do Examples
Explore Read code, explain findings, answer questions "how does tool naming work", "look at the widget code", "why is this broken", "what would break if we change X"
Plan Enter plan mode, design the approach, assess impact "plan implementing resource links", "figure out how to refactor metadata", "design the simplification"
Spec Plan + create GitHub issues "write an issue for X", "create a spec for Y", "spec out resource links"

Rules:

  • Default to Explore. When in doubt, do less — the user can always ask for more.
  • Only enter plan mode for Plan and Spec.
  • Only create GitHub issues for Spec.

Step 1: Explore

Read the relevant source files and explain your findings. This is the baseline for all intents.

What to do:

  1. Read the relevant source files in this repo
  2. Check similar existing features as reference
  3. Only check the internal repo, MCP SDK/spec, or MCP Apps SDK/spec if the user's question touches those areas
  4. If you spot a related open issue, mention it casually — but don't go searching for issues unless it's relevant

Read the full file on GitHub · 159 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 159 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 7a5baa55a043

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dig is a skill published in the GitHub repository apify/apify-mcp-server (5,636 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 2,060 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. 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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