getting-started

getting-started is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from acquia/acquia-skills. It costs 29 tokens per session (2,081 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A getting-started guide for Acquia CLI, the command-line tool for managing Acquia Cloud applications, environments, IDEs, keys, and code or data transfers. It covers installation, authentication, and first commands.

In plain words
What is it for?
For installing acli on macOS or Linux, signing in to Acquia Cloud, checking that it works, and learning the first commands for Cloud management.
Why use it?
It gives new users a path through setup when the CLI is missing or authentication fails. It also explains when to use Acquia CLI versus the separate pipelines CLI for build jobs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/acquia/acquia-skills/getting-started
Any agent
npx skills add acquia/acquia-skills --skill getting-started
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/acquia/acquia-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,081 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00029 $0.02081
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.01040
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00416
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00208

Measured yesterday against content hash acead1a813db, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

getting-started scanned grade B with 2 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Unrestricted tool accessmediumExcessive agency

A wildcard tool grant or "run any command" leaves no least-privilege boundary at all.

Run any command in debug mode to see behind-the-scenes details:

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -fsSL https://github.com/acquia/cli/releases/latest/download/acli \
skills/acli/getting-started/SKILL.md · 411 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 411 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Getting Started with Acquia CLI

This guide covers installation, authentication, and your first commands.

Use when:

  • Installing acli for the first time
  • Authenticating with Acquia Cloud
  • Learning your first acli commands

Tool Overview

Two separate CLIs exist for Acquia Cloud operations:

Tool Purpose
acli General Cloud management: applications, environments, IDEs, SSH keys, code/DB sync
pipelines-cli CI/CD pipeline operations: trigger builds, check job status, stream logs

Use pipelines-cli for anything related to pipeline jobs. Use acli for everything else.

ACE vs MEO

acli serves two distinct hosting products with separate command prefixes:

Product Command prefix API
ACE (Acquia Cloud Enterprise) — classic single-site hosting acli api:* V2
MEO (Multi-site Enterprise Operations) — multi-site hosting acli api:v3:* V3

If you're working on a MEO subscription, see MEO Overview for the full command set.


Installation

macOS & Linux

Option 1: Native Binary (Recommended)

The native binary requires no PHP installation and works on any modern macOS or Linux system.

# Download the latest release
curl -fsSL https://github.com/acquia/cli/releases/latest/download/acli \
  -o /usr/local/bin/acli

# Make it executable
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/acli

# Verify it works
acli --version
Option 2: PHP Archive (PHAR)

If you prefer or already have PHP 8.2 installed:

curl -fsSL https://github.com/acquia/cli/releases/latest/download/acli.phar \
  -o /usr/local/bin/acli.phar
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/acli.phar

# Use as:
acli.phar --version
# Or create an alias
alias acli='acli.phar'
Using Homebrew (macOS)
brew tap acquia/cli
brew install acli
acli --version

Your First Command: Authentication

Acquia CLI uses OAuth to authenticate with your Acquia account. You'll only need to do this once.

Read the full file on GitHub · 411 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday Changed · +11 lines acead1a813db
  2. 6d ago First seen · 400 lines · 29 tokens per session scan B 3e2c94ebdafa

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getting-started is a skill published in the GitHub repository acquia/acquia-skills (9 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 2,081 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (unrestricted tool access, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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