apify-actor-development
Apify's skill for building Actors, the serverless programs that run on the Apify platform.
What the skill teaches
Apify's skill for building Actors, the serverless programs that run on the Apify platform. It walks the agent through creating a project from the right template (static or JavaScript-rendered crawling, HTTP-serving Standby Actors, MCP servers or plain scripts in TypeScript, JavaScript or Python), implementing it, writing input and output schemas, configuring actor.json, writing the README, testing locally with apify run and deploying with apify push once the user agrees. Rules cover logging through the Apify logger, treating crawled content as untrusted, keeping the token out of code and choosing crawler types. It needs the Apify CLI.
Capabilities
- Create an Actor from a template
- Write input and output schemas
- Test an Actor locally with apify run
- Deploy an Actor with apify push
Install
- Run this to add it to Any client:
npx skills add https://github.com/apify/agent-skills --skill apify-actor-development
What's inside
- references/actor-json.md
- references/actor-readme.md
- references/input-schema.md
- references/logging.md
- references/output-schemas.md
- references/standby-mode.md
Details
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Skill | |
| Tool | Apify | |
| Publisher | Apify | source |
| Official status | Officialin Apify's agent-skills repository, which Apify's docs list as its skills source | source |
| Needs an API key or sign-in | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Includes scripts | No | source |
| Platforms | Not stated in its documentation | |
| AI clients | Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, Devin Desktop | source |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | source |
| Pricing | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Activity | Last commit Oct 30, 20262,496 GitHub starsDownload data not available (not on npm or PyPI) | source |
| Links | Repository Website |
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Sources
- Web pagedocs.apify.com · Backs: AI clients, Official statusNov 12, 2026
- Skill file (SKILL.md)github.com/apify/agent-skillsNov 10, 2026
- GitHub repositorygithub.com/apify/agent-skills · Backs: Activity, LicenceNov 11, 2026
- Publisher profile on GitHubgithub.com/apify · Backs: PublisherNov 12, 2026
- Folder in the repository (apify-actor-development)github.com/apify/agent-skills · Backs: Includes scriptsNov 10, 2026