docs(apify-actor-development): clarify AI / LLM Actors are just Actors that call an LLM#68
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Rationale
Users building LLM-powered Actors sometimes reach for agent frameworks or assume there is a special "AI Actor" construct in Apify. There isn't — an AI Actor is just an Actor whose work happens to be calling an external LLM API, with the same packaging conventions as any other Actor. A one-paragraph framing under
apify-actor-developmentclarifies the mental model up front and steers builders away from over-engineering.Change
Adds a short standalone
## AI / LLM Actorssection between## Best practicesand## Logginginskills/apify-actor-development/SKILL.md.Added content (verbatim)
Surfaced during an evaluation of Apify surfaces for agent-driven Actor development.