apify-actor-development

apify-actor-development is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tmolavi/mcp-agent-skills-hub. It costs 71 tokens per session (2,856 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of apify-actor-development, MIT.

A guide for developing Apify Actors, which are isolated cloud programs that accept JSON input, perform a task, and produce structured output.

In plain words
What is it for?
It supports web scraping, automation, data processing, actor templates, input and output wiring, authentication setup, and deployment.
Why use it?
It helps developers create, modify, debug, configure, and deploy Apify projects while following the required project setup.

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 It supports web scraping, automation, data processing, actor templates, input and output wiring, authentication setup, and deployment.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

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

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 2,856 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 94% 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 $0.02856
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01428
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00571
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00286

Measured 10d ago against content hash 166fa0f2d58a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apify-actor-development 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 10d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

94% identical to apify-actor-development — 7 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 · 230 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 230 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.

When to Use

  • You need to create, modify, or debug an Apify Actor project.
  • The task involves choosing an Apify template, wiring actor inputs/outputs, or implementing actor runtime logic.
  • You need safe setup guidance for apify CLI authentication, project bootstrap, or deployment workflow.

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 directly into a shell. 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:

Read the full file on GitHub · 230 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. 10d ago First seen · 230 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 166fa0f2d58a

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apify-actor-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository tmolavi/mcp-agent-skills-hub (8 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 2,856 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to apify-actor-development, differing in 7 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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