apify-actor-development

apify-actor-development is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from marysatasselshaped667/skills-collection-1. It costs 71 tokens per session (2,766 once invoked), scanned C, a copy of apify-actor-development, MIT.

A guide to building Apify Actors: serverless programs packaged as Docker images that accept JSON input, perform an isolated task, and return structured data. Apify runs these programs in the cloud.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create Actors for web scraping, automation, or data processing, configure their input schema, test them locally, and deploy them with the Apify CLI.
Why use it?
It explains the required project setup and lifecycle so an Actor can receive input, process work, store results, restart, and run on Apify.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it to create Actors for web scraping, automation, or data processing, configure their input schema, test them locally, and deploy them with the Apify CLI.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/marysatasselshaped667/skills-collection-1/apify-actor-development
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.

Any agent
npx skills add marysatasselshaped667/skills-collection-1 --skill apify-actor-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/marysatasselshaped667/skills-collection-1

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,766 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 92% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 5.1 $0.00071 $0.02766
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01383
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00553
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00277

Measured 7d ago against content hash f745a6827302, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 7d 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.

<!-- security-allowlist: curl-pipe-bash, irm-pipe-iex -->
Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to apify-actor-development — 23 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

SKILLS/apify-actor-development/SKILL.md · 222 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 222 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Apify Actor Development

Important: Before you begin, fill in the generatedBy property in the meta section of .actor/actor.json. Replace it with the tool and model you're currently using, such as "Claude Code with Claude Sonnet 4.5". This helps Apify monitor and improve AGENTS.md for specific AI tools and models.

What are Apify Actors?

Actors are serverless programs inspired by the UNIX philosophy - programs that do one thing well and can be easily combined to build complex systems. They're packaged as Docker images and run in isolated containers in the cloud.

Core Concepts:

  • Accept well-defined JSON input
  • Perform isolated tasks (web scraping, automation, data processing)
  • Produce structured JSON output to datasets and/or store data in key-value stores
  • Can run from seconds to hours or even indefinitely
  • Persist state and can be restarted

Prerequisites & Setup (MANDATORY)

Before creating or modifying actors, verify that apify CLI is installed apify --help.

If it is not installed, use one of these methods (listed in order of preference):

# Preferred: install via a package manager (provides integrity checks)
npm install -g apify-cli

# Or (Mac): brew install apify-cli

Security note: Do NOT install the CLI by piping remote scripts to a shell (e.g. curl … | bash or irm … | iex). Always use a package manager.

When the apify CLI is installed, check that it is logged in with:

apify info  # Should return your username

If it is not logged in, check if the APIFY_TOKEN environment variable is defined (if not, ask the user to generate one on https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations and then define APIFY_TOKEN with it).

Then authenticate using one of these methods:

# Option 1 (preferred): The CLI automatically reads APIFY_TOKEN from the environment.
# Just ensure the env var is exported and run any apify command — no explicit login needed.

# Option 2: Interactive login (prompts for token without exposing it in shell history)
apify login

Read the full file on GitHub · 222 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 7d ago First seen · 222 lines · 71 tokens per session scan C f745a6827302

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apify-actor-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository marysatasselshaped667/skills-collection-1 (1 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 2,766 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). It is 92% identical to apify-actor-development, differing in 23 lines, and is treated as a copy.