apify-product-data-setup

apify-product-data-setup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from luispintoapify/ecommerce-agent-starter. It costs 132 tokens per session (1,735 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup workflow for connecting an AI agent to current online product data, either when a user asks or through scheduled updates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to provide current prices, stock, brands, ratings, and image links, with live checks for individual items or refreshed data for a larger catalogue.
Why use it?
It prevents an agent from answering product questions from stale data and avoids requiring you to host the data collection system yourself.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the ecommerce-agent-starter plugin — 2 skills, 1 MCP server 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/luispintoapify/ecommerce-agent-starter/apify-product-data-setup
Any agent
npx skills add luispintoapify/ecommerce-agent-starter --skill apify-product-data-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/luispintoapify/ecommerce-agent-starter

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ecommerce-agent-starter, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 1 MCP server.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 132 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,735 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 $0.00132 $0.01735
Opus 5 $0.00066 $0.00868
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00347
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00173

Measured 5d ago against content hash 10b4962a9b2f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apify-product-data-setup 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 5d 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/apify-product-data-setup/SKILL.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Apify product data setup

Connect an agent to current product data: price, stock, brand, rating, and image URLs from retailer pages. Nothing to host.

Written by a product marketing manager at Apify. It routes to E-commerce Scraping Tool, a paid first-party Apify Actor, so treat the framing accordingly. No affiliate links.

Choose the path first

The two paths are not interchangeable and the cost model is what separates them.

Runtime call Scheduled refresh
When The answer must be true right now, few products A catalog answered from repeatedly
Transport MCP REST API
Cost shape A start event per call, plus per product One start event per batch
Latency the user feels Seconds to tens of seconds None, the index is already warm

Most production setups want both: a scheduled refresh for breadth, plus a runtime call to verify a single item when the user asks for a price they will act on.

A cron job gains nothing from MCP, so the scheduled path uses the REST API. Say so when explaining the design, because the mismatch looks like an oversight otherwise.

Connect over MCP

The server is https://mcp.apify.com. Narrow it to this Actor with ?tools=apify/e-commerce-scraping-tool, which makes tool selection more reliable when product data is the only job. Drop the parameter to let the agent search all of Apify Store at runtime.

Config blocks per client are in references/clients.md: Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, n8n, and anything else speaking Streamable HTTP.

Authentication: OAuth on first use for interactive clients, a bearer token from Apify Console for unattended ones.

Encode the fetch flow

Fetching products is two calls, and sometimes three. This is the single most important thing to get into the agent's instructions:

  1. apify--e-commerce-scraping-tool returns run metadata and a datasetId. No products.
  2. If status is not SUCCEEDED, poll get-actor-run with the runId until it is. The Actor tool returns when its own wait window elapses rather than when the run finishes, so RUNNING is a normal answer and the dataset is empty at that moment.
  3. get-dataset-items returns the products. Pass fields in dot notation: the unprojected record measured about 88 KB across 142 fields, and projecting keeps that out of the context window.

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 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. 5d ago First seen · 102 lines · 132 tokens per session scan A 10b4962a9b2f

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apify-product-data-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository luispintoapify/ecommerce-agent-starter (3 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 132 tokens to every session and 1,735 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-31.

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