Teach your agent the catalog in one command.
Skills are plain SKILL.md instruction files that agents like Claude Code, Cursor and Codex load automatically. The Datapika skill tells your agent which actor answers which question, what the inputs look like, and what a result costs, so it can fetch live data instead of guessing.
Shipping soon
The installable Datapika skill is in final review. Until it ships, the MCP server gives your agent the same tools today, and the AGENTS.md file below teaches any agent the catalog, pricing and call shapes in one read.
claude mcp add --transport http datapika "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,openclawai/job-board-scraper"
Full client list and the whole-catalog config on the MCP page.
What a skill looks like
The format is the open Agent Skills standard: YAML frontmatter with a name and a trigger description, then plain instructions.
--- name: datapika-data description: Pull live web data (jobs across 8 boards, company hiring signals, Reddit, TikTok, Airbnb, Google Maps, Google Flights, ads intelligence) through the Datapika actors on Apify. Use when the user asks for job listings, hiring signals, social posts, places, listings or flight prices. --- # Datapika data Run actors via the Apify API with the user's APIFY_TOKEN...
Prefer tools over instructions?
Skills and MCP work together: the skill teaches judgment (which tool, which inputs, what it costs), the MCP server provides the tools themselves. Most agents do best with both installed.