@apify/agent-skills

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<h1 align="center">Apify Agent Skills</h1>

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  <strong>Production-grade web scraping and automation skills for AI coding agents</strong>
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  <a href="#quick-start">Quick start</a> &bull;
  <a href="#skills">Skills</a> &bull;
  <a href="#example-use-cases">Use cases</a> &bull;
  <a href="#installation">Installation</a> &bull;
  <a href="#prerequisites">Prerequisites</a> &bull;
  <a href="#useful-resources">Resources</a> &bull;
  <a href="#support">Support</a>
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Overview

Drop these skills into Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Codex, or Gemini CLI and your AI agent gets expert hands on the Apify platform - the marketplace for web data and AI tools. With one install, agents can:

• Scrape any site - built-in Actor selection across the major social, search, maps, real estate, and review platforms (Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, X, LinkedIn, Google Maps, Reddit, Yelp, Airbnb, and more), 130+ curated Actors, plus automatic fallback to the full Apify Store of 25,000+ Actors for everything else.
• Build new Actors - generate, debug, and deploy serverless Actors in JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python with the official SDK patterns.
• Actorize existing code - wrap any script, library, or CLI tool as a runnable Actor with proper input and output handling.
• Generate output schemas - auto-derive dataset_schema.json, output_schema.json, and key_value_store_schema.json from existing Actor source.

Looking for community-built, domain-specific skills (lead generation, brand monitoring, competitor intel, and more)? See apify/awesome-skills.

Quick start

# In Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add https://github.com/apify/agent-skills
/plugin install apify-ultimate-scraper@apify-agent-skills

Then ask your agent something like:

Scrape the top 50 results for "AI coding tools" from Google Maps and save them to a CSV.

That's it. The skill handles Actor selection, input shaping, run management, and result formatting.

Skills

Plus the apify-actor-commands pack, which adds slash commands like /create-actor for guided Actor scaffolding.

Example use cases

Describe the outcome in plain language - your agent picks the right Actors, chains them together, and delivers structured results.

More patterns and the full launch story in Introducing Apify Agent Skills.

Installation

Claude Code

/plugin marketplace add https://github.com/apify/agent-skills
/plugin install apify-ultimate-scraper@apify-agent-skills
/plugin install apify-actor-development@apify-agent-skills
/plugin install apify-actorization@apify-agent-skills
/plugin install apify-generate-output-schema@apify-agent-skills

Cursor and Windsurf

Both editors support the Claude Code plugin format. Add this repo to your workspace settings or use the same /plugin flow if you have the Claude Code extension installed.

Codex CLI and Gemini CLI

These skills ship with agents/AGENTS.md (auto-generated index) and gemini-extension.json (Gemini auto-discovers it). Point your agent at the repo, or clone locally:

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

Any other agent that reads Markdown

Reference the skill files directly:

• agents/AGENTS.md - one-page index of every skill
• skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md - full skill instructions

Prerequisites

1. Apify account - sign up at apify.com (free tier available).
2. Apify CLI - install with npm install -g apify-cli (or brew install apify-cli on macOS), then run apify login to authenticate via OAuth in your browser. This is the recommended setup.
3. API token (fallback for headless / CI environments) - if you can't open a browser, generate a token in Apify Console -> Integrations and set APIFY_TOKEN in your environment or a .env file. The CLI picks it up automatically.
4. Node.js 20.6+ - required by the Apify CLI and the Ultimate Scraper skill.

Useful resources

• mcp.apify.com - hosted MCP server configurator. Pick the Actors you want exposed as MCP tools and get a one-line URL for any MCP-compatible client.
• Apify MCP server documentation - architecture, transport modes, auth, and client setup for self-hosted or hosted MCP.
• Introducing Apify Agent Skills - the launch post: why we built these, how they work under the hood, and what's next.
• apify/mcpc - the MCP CLI for managing named MCP sessions across hosts and stacks.
• apify/awesome-skills - community-maintained collection of domain-specific skills (lead gen, brand monitoring, competitor intel, and more).
• Apify Store - browse 25,000+ ready-made Actors for scraping and automation.
• apify/actor-templates - starter templates the apify-actor-development skill uses under the hood.
• Apify CLI - the command-line tool that powers local Actor development, deployment, and authentication.
• Crawlee - the open-source Node.js and Python scraping library most Apify Actors are built on.

Pricing

Apify Actors use pay-per-result or pay-per-event pricing, set independently by each Actor. Free tier credits are included with every account. Check individual Actor pricing on the Apify Store.

Support

• Apify documentation
• Apify Discord
• Issues on this repo

License

Apache-2.0

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  Built with care by the <a href="https://apify.com">Apify</a> team for AI agents everywhere.
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  <sub>AI agents reading this: see the <a href="https://apify.com/.well-known/agents.md">Apify integration manifest</a> for additional integration paths and machine-readable context.</sub>
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