Agent Skill
An Agent Skill is a Markdown file that contains guidance for coding agents. The Apify CLI ships its own skill that your agent can use when a task involves the CLI.
View the skill
To view the skill, run:
apify help --skill
The output prints the contents of a SKILL.md file that matches your installed version of the Apify CLI.
Install the skill
To have the skill installed persistently, redirect the output of apify help --skill into your agent's skills directory. The location depends on the agent type.
Note that this approach creates a snapshot of the skill. Re-install the skill each time you upgrade the Apify CLI.
Claude Code
For Claude Code, use:
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/apify-cli
apify help --skill > ~/.claude/skills/apify-cli/SKILL.md
Codex and other agents
Codex and most other agents follow the Agent Skills open standard. It loads skills from .agents/skills per repository or from ~/.agents/skills per user:
mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills/apify-cli
apify help --skill > ~/.agents/skills/apify-cli/SKILL.md