apify/apify-cli

Apify CLI

Apify CLI is the command-line tool for creating, developing, and deploying Apify Actors, and for managing the Apify cloud platform from your terminal.

Features

• Create, develop, and deploy Apify Actors from your terminal
• Run Actors locally for development and testing, or in the Apify cloud
• Manage Actors, datasets, key-value stores, and request queues
• Manage secret environment variables used by your Actors
• Works with any programming language — Actors run as Docker containers on the platform

Agent skill

This repo ships an agent skill that teaches AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) how to work with the Apify CLI reliably. You can print the skill straight from the CLI — it always matches your installed version:

apify help --skill

If you'd rather have the skill installed persistently, apify help --skill prints a valid SKILL.md that you can redirect into your agent's skills directory. The location depends on the agent:

Claude Code

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, which loads skills from .agents/skills (per repo) or ~/.agents/skills (per user):

mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills/apify-cli
apify help --skill > ~/.agents/skills/apify-cli/SKILL.md

That copy is a snapshot; re-run it after upgrading the Apify CLI to refresh it.

Quick start

• Install the CLI (macOS / Linux):

   curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash

For Windows and other installation options, see Installation.