Agent Skill

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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