_template

_template is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from apify/awesome-skills. It costs 0 tokens per session (895 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A blank template for writing an Apify agent skill, with sections for its purpose, example prompts, limits, prerequisites, workflow, and Actor choices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as a starting point when creating an Apify skill that selects Actors, prepares their inputs, runs them, and delivers results.
Why use it?
It provides structure for documenting a new skill, although the placeholder text must be replaced with real project-specific guidance.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the awesome-skills plugin — 14 skills, 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/awesome-skills/_template
Any agent
npx skills add apify/awesome-skills --skill _template
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/apify/awesome-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install awesome-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 1 agent.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for _template

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/apify/awesome-skills/_template.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/apify/awesome-skills/_template)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/apify/awesome-skills/_template"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/apify/awesome-skills/_template.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 895 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 $0.00000 $0.00895
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00447
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00179
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00089

Measured 4d ago against content hash 226498e5292d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

_template 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 4d 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.

skills/_template/SKILL.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

REPLACE: Skill Title

REPLACE: One-line summary of what this skill helps the agent accomplish.

Example prompts

Prompts this skill handles:

  • "REPLACE: a real prompt a user would type"
  • "REPLACE: a second one, phrased differently"

Out of scope (the boundary):

  • "REPLACE: a nearby request this skill deliberately does not handle — and where to send it instead"

Prerequisites

Workflow

  1. REPLACE: Understand the user's goal, pick the right Actor(s).
  2. REPLACE: Fetch the Actor's input schema, build a valid input.
  3. REPLACE: Run the Actor, confirm with user if estimated cost is significant.
  4. REPLACE: Deliver results (count, format, link to dataset/console).

For a worked 4-step workflow, see apify/agent-skills ultimate-scraper.

Actor routing

User need Actor ID Tier Best for
REPLACE apify/REPLACE-actor apify REPLACE
REPLACE community/REPLACE-actor community REPLACE

Tier = apify (Apify-maintained, prefer) or community (third-party).

Calling Actors — choose your interface

Skills in this repo can call Actors via any of these interfaces. Pick the one that fits your runtime; cross-tool compatibility is your responsibility.

Option A: Apify CLI (recommended for portability)

Works in any shell-capable agent. Three flags on every call:

apify actors call "ACTOR_ID" -i 'JSON_INPUT' \
  --json \
  --user-agent apify-awesome-skills/REPLACE-skill-name \
  2>/dev/null
Flag Why
--json Stable machine-readable output
--user-agent Apify telemetry attribution
2>/dev/null Suppress progress messages that break JSON

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 4d ago First seen · 103 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 226498e5292d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

_template is a skill published in the GitHub repository apify/awesome-skills (248 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 895 tokens. 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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