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New integration page documenting Apify Agent Skills and MCPC (universal MCP CLI client) for AI coding assistants. Covers installation, setup with Claude Code/Cursor/VS Code, MCPC commands, and session management. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Address 7 style guide violations: expand meta description to meet 140-char minimum, expand MCP acronym on first use, remove sales language, fix passive voice, add Tabs groupId, improve tone and link text. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| description: Use Apify Agent Skills and MCPC to give AI coding assistants web scraping, data extraction, and automation capabilities through MCP servers. |
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| description: Use Apify Agent Skills and MCPC to give AI coding assistants web scraping, data extraction, and automation capabilities through MCP servers. | |
| description: Use Apify Agent Skills with MCP CLI (mcpc) to give AI agents web scraping, data extraction, and automation capabilities. |
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| [Apify Agent Skills](https://github.com/apify/agent-skills) give AI coding assistants pre-built capabilities for web scraping, data extraction, and automation. Skills work with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, and other AI tools that support [Model Context Protocol (MCP)](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/). |
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| [Apify Agent Skills](https://github.com/apify/agent-skills) give AI coding assistants pre-built capabilities for web scraping, data extraction, and automation. Skills work with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, and other AI tools that support [Model Context Protocol (MCP)](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/). | |
| [Apify Agent Skills](https://github.com/apify/agent-skills) give AI agents pre-built capabilities for web scraping, data extraction, and building Apify Actors. Skills work with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, and other coding agents that support [Model Context Protocol (MCP)](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/). |
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| [Apify Agent Skills](https://github.com/apify/agent-skills) give AI coding assistants pre-built capabilities for web scraping, data extraction, and automation. Skills work with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, and other AI tools that support [Model Context Protocol (MCP)](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/). | ||
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| [MCPC](https://github.com/apify/mcp-cli) is a command-line client for MCP that connects your terminal and AI agents to any MCP server - including Apify's. |
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| [MCPC](https://github.com/apify/mcp-cli) is a command-line client for MCP that connects your terminal and AI agents to any MCP server - including Apify's. | |
| [MCPC](https://github.com/apify/mcp-cli) is a universal command-line client for MCP that connects your AI agents to any MCP server - including Apify's. This CLI utility enables more token efficient tool calling, and less context bloat while working with MCP servers. |
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| [MCPC](https://github.com/apify/mcp-cli) is a command-line client for MCP that connects your terminal and AI agents to any MCP server - including Apify's. | ||
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| Together, they let you add Apify's scraping and automation tools to any AI coding assistant with a single command. |
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| Together, they let you add Apify's scraping and automation tools to any AI coding assistant with a single command. | |
| Together, they let you add Apify's scraping and automation tools to any AI agent with a single command. |
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| - An [Apify account](https://console.apify.com/sign-up) with an [API token](https://console.apify.com/account#/integrations) | ||
| - [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/) version 20.6 or later | ||
| - An AI coding assistant that supports MCP (Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code with Copilot, Codex, Gemini CLI) |
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| - An AI coding assistant that supports MCP (Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code with Copilot, Codex, Gemini CLI) | |
| - An AI coding agent that supports MCP (Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code with Copilot, Codex, Gemini CLI etc.) |
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| The [apify/agent-skills](https://github.com/apify/agent-skills) repository contains official Apify skills. The community-maintained [apify/awesome-skills](https://github.com/apify/awesome-skills) repository contains additional skills contributed by the community. | ||
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| :::note Skills consolidation |
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we can remove this skill consolidation comment, it's not needed and will be done by time we publish this
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| ### How skills work | ||
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| Each skill is a Markdown file (`SKILL.md`) that describes a capability and its tools. When an AI coding assistant opens your project, it reads these files and gains the ability to: |
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| Each skill is a Markdown file (`SKILL.md`) that describes a capability and its tools. When an AI coding assistant opens your project, it reads these files and gains the ability to: | |
| Each skill is a Markdown file (`SKILL.md`) that describes a domain-specific capability and tools the agent should use to execute the desired task. Skills can be invoked directly by `/slash-commands` and agents can also load them dynamically based on your prompt. Apify Agent Skills give AI coding assistants the ability to: |
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| - Search and run Actors from [Apify Store](https://apify.com/store) | ||
| - Extract data from websites, social media, and e-commerce platforms | ||
| - Export results as JSON or CSV, or display them in chat | ||
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| - [Develop, test & publish Actors](https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/development/quick-start/build-with-ai) in Apify Store | |
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| - Extract data from websites, social media, and e-commerce platforms | ||
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| Skills use [MCPC](#install-mcpc) under the hood to communicate with MCP servers and execute Apify Actor calls. |
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| Skills use [MCPC](#install-mcpc) under the hood to communicate with MCP servers and execute Apify Actor calls. | |
| Skills use [MCPC](#install-mcpc) under the hood to communicate with Apify MCP server and execute Actor calls. |
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| ## Install MCPC | ||
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| MCPC is the command-line bridge between AI agents and MCP servers. Install it globally: |
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| MCPC is the command-line bridge between AI agents and MCP servers. Install it globally: | |
| [MCP CLI (mcpc)](https://blog.apify.com/introducing-mcpc-universal-mcp-cli-client/) is the command-line bridge between AI agents and MCP servers. Install it globally: |
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This whole section down is wrong and contains unnecessarily duplicate information. I don't have time to fix it entirely myself.
Please read the https://github.com/apify/agent-skills repo again. You actually DON'T need to install the Apify MCP server itself, the connection is handled through mcpc utility. What you DO NEED however is to store the Apify API token in the .env file and this piece is missing here
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