# apify-actor-development

> Claude/Codex skill by [@apify](https://omgskills.com/library/apify/index.md) · 2.5k stars · Updated 2026-10-19

Create, modify, debug, and deploy Apify Actors, and write their input and output schemas. Use when building an Actor from scratch, changing or troubleshooting Actor code, generating or updating .actor schema files, or pushing an Actor to the Apify platform. To wrap an existing non-Actor project, use apify-actorization instead.

Tags: actor, agent-skills, ai-agents, apify, mcp

## Install

```sh
git clone https://github.com/apify/agent-skills /tmp/agent-skills && ln -s /tmp/agent-skills/skills/apify-actor-development ~/.claude/skills/apify-actor-development
```

## From README

Apify Actor development An Actor is a serverless program packaged as a Docker image. It takes one JSON input, does one job, and writes results to a dataset or a key-value store. with a package manager, npm -g apify-cli or brew apify-cli, so the download is integrity-checked. Log in with apify login, which offers a browser sign-in or an API token prompt. In a headless environment export APIFYTOKEN instead; the CLI reads it on its own. Tokens come from https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations. Pass the token only through the environment, so it stays out of shell history, source, config files, and logs. Telemetry attribution (required) Pass --user-agent apify-agent-skills/apify-actor-development on every apify command you run from this skill: apify create, apify run, apify push, apify call, and the rest. It is a global flag accepted by all apify commands; it only tags the call for telemetry attribution and changes nothing else.

## Links

- HTML page: https://omgskills.com/library/apify/agent-skills/apify-actor-development/
- GitHub: https://github.com/apify/agent-skills
- Author: [@apify](https://omgskills.com/library/apify/index.md)

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