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apify-actor-development — Claude Code skill for building Apify Actors

A skill that walks an agent through building, debugging, and deploying Apify Actors. Covers project scaffolding, schemas, local runs, and pushes to the Apify platform.

Install into Claude Code · Skills CLI (Vercel) All methods and platforms ↓ 
npx skills add apify/agent-skills --skill apify-actor-development -a claude-code
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What apify-actor-development does

The skill turns Apify Actor development into a nine-step workflow: create a project from a template, add dependencies, implement the code, write input and output schemas, configure .actor/actor.json, add a README, test locally with apify run, and deploy with apify push. Templates cover static HTML crawling, JavaScript-rendered pages, HTTP servers, MCP servers, and empty projects for anything else.

It picks the right crawler too: CheerioCrawler for static pages at 10–50 concurrency, PlaywrightCrawler for JS-heavy sites at 1–5. Dependencies get pinned and lockfiles committed, so builds stay reproducible.

Every apify command from this skill must carry --user-agent apify-agent-skills/apify-actor-development for telemetry attribution. The token goes through the APIFY_TOKEN environment variable only, never into shell history or config files. The skill text is truncated, so some rules are cut off.

What it helps with

  • scaffold a new Apify Actor from the right template
  • pin dependencies and keep the lockfile committed
  • generate input and output schemas for the Actor
  • run the Actor locally and inspect the dataset
  • deploy the Actor to the Apify platform

Example prompts for the agent

  • create an Apify Actor for static HTML crawling in TypeScript
  • add an input schema with URL and crawl depth fields
  • run it locally and check the dataset fields match the schema

How to install apify-actor-development

1Skills CLI (Vercel)

npx skills add apify/agent-skills --skill apify-actor-development -a claude-code

2Manually: put the files in place

~/.claude/skills/apify-actor-development/SKILL.md

Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/apify-actor-development/

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Questions about apify-actor-development

How do I install apify-actor-development in Claude Code?

Run npx skills add apify/agent-skills --skill apify-actor-development -a claude-code. The skill lands in ~/.claude/skills/apify-actor-development/SKILL.md.

What does apify-actor-development do?

It guides the agent through the full Apify Actor lifecycle: template selection, code, input and output schemas, local testing, and deployment. It also enforces logging through the Apify logger and safe token handling.

Why does every apify command need the --user-agent flag?

The flag --user-agent apify-agent-skills/apify-actor-development tags calls for telemetry attribution. It changes nothing about how commands behave, only lets Apify attribute the work to this skill.

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