Apify Actor Development

by apify

Apify Actor Development is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by apify in agent-skills.

2.4K stars254 forkson apify/agent-skillsAdded 2026/08/20Repository updated 2026/08/10

View source on GitHub Download repo ZIP

actoragent-skillsai-agentsapifymcp

Install in seconds

Install Apify Actor Development

Copy Apify Actor Development into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/apify/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/apify-actor-development ~/.claude/skills/apify-actor-development

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/apify/agent-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/apify-actor-development/SKILL.md in apify/agent-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/apify-actor-development
Collection: One of 5 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Apify Actor Development does

Apify Actor Development scaffolds, tests, and deploys Apify Actors for web scraping, automation, and data processing. Use it when creating new Actors, modifying existing ones, or troubleshooting Actor code.

Apify Actor Development is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Apify Actor Development comes from a repository tagged actor, agent-skills, ai-agents, apify and mcp.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

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.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Apify Actor Development

What else does apify publish alongside Apify Actor Development?
Apify Actor Development is one of 5 skills that DirSkills catalogs from apify/agent-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Apify Actorization, Apify Output Schema Generator and Apify SDK Integration. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Apify Actor Development does, and is maintained by apify in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the apify/agent-skills page.
How does Apify Actor Development compare to other Automation skills?
Apify Actor Development ranks #460 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Apify Actor Development against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.