Apify Generate Output Schema

Deprecated. Output schema generation moved to the apify-actor-development skill; prefer that skill whenever it is available.

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Install

$ npx skills add apify/agent-skills --skill apify-generate-output-schema

$ npx skills add apify/agent-skills

» /plugin marketplace add apify/agent-skills

The first command installs just this skill, by the name in its SKILL.md; the second installs the whole repository.

Deprecated: use apify-actor-development

This skill is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Generating and updating Actor output schemas (dataset_schema.json, output_schema.json, key_value_store_schema.json) is now part of the apify-actor-development skill.

If the apify-actor-development skill is available, load it and follow its references/output-schemas.md.
If it is not available, tell the user this skill is deprecated and help them install apify-actor-development from https://github.com/apify/agent-skills, then stop. Do not write the schemas from memory. Use the install method that fits their agent, preferably the same one this skill was installed with:
- Claude Code plugin: /plugin install apify-actor-development@apify-agent-skills
- Skills CLI, which works with most agents: npx skills add https://github.com/apify/agent-skills --skill apify-actor-development
- Cloned repo: pull the latest changes; the skill is at skills/apify-actor-development/SKILL.md

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How this issue was made

Source

github.com/apify/agent-skills, branch main, last pushed 30 October 2026.

Licence

Discovery

5 skills found by walking the repository tree for SKILL.md, not by matching a directory convention. One layout observed: skills/*/SKILL.md.

Issue colours

Resolved from a deterministic hash of the owner name. Two accent tones are generated per issue and each is proven against its own ground before it ships: a single accent that passes AA on both light and dark paper is arithmetically impossible.

Heading repairs

1 repair applied to this skill so the document has one h1 and no skipped levels:

Shifted “1 heading” from h1 to h2 so the skill title is the only h1.

Spec compliance

Every skill satisfies the Agent Skills specification’s frontmatter rules.

Images

Images inside a skill come from the upstream repository. Where the author gave no alternative text we mark the image decorative rather than inventing a description — a plausible caption we made up is worse than none for the reader who depends on it.

Marketplace

A plugin manifest is published at .claude-plugin/marketplace.json by Apify, declaring 6 plugins. It is read for editorial metadata only — never as the skill index, which is always the repository tree.

Signal

Install counts come from skills.sh. They measure downloads, not quality, and an unranked repository is not an unread one.

Agent surfaces

The whole issue is available as one markdown document at /apify/agent-skills.md, and each skill at its own .md URL.

Publication

Set by Skills Docs from the source repository. Body text is Literata at the reader’s chosen size and measure; code is Geist Mono. Nothing on this page was written by us except this paragraph.

Deprecated: use apify-actor-development

If the apify-actor-development skill is available, load it and follow its references/output-schemas.md.

If it is not available, tell the user this skill is deprecated and help them install apify-actor-development from https://github.com/apify/agent-skills, then stop. Do not write the schemas from memory. Use the install method that fits their agent, preferably the same one this skill was installed with:

Claude Code plugin: /plugin install apify-actor-development@apify-agent-skills
Skills CLI, which works with most agents: npx skills add https://github.com/apify/agent-skills --skill apify-actor-development
Cloned repo: pull the latest changes; the skill is at skills/apify-actor-development/SKILL.md