On 27 July I published a scraper that pulls product cards and specifications from online stores. It was my fourteenth Actor. The others cover company due diligence by tax ID, government tender feeds, cadastral records, marketplace seller leads. All of them had months of green runs behind them.
Then I connected the Apify MCP server to Claude. It exposes Actors as tools an AI client can call over the Model Context Protocol. I gave it a task in plain language: find this product across those stores and return the specs.
The agent picked my Actor, filled the input, started the run. Status: succeeded. Zero results, no error.
The Origin column says MCP: that run was started by an agent, not by me clicking Start.
The scraper worked. The agent had read my input schema the way any careful reader would. The trouble is that I wrote that schema for a reader who already had the target website open in another tab, and that reader was me, six months earlier.
