acquisition-graduation

acquisition-graduation is a skill for Claude Code from buriedsignals/spotlight. It costs 47 tokens per session (392 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A method for turning repeated successes in a developer browser into reusable instructions for accessing a source or website. It leaves out passwords, cookies, and fragile session details.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps document reliable browser-based ways to acquire information from a particular source or domain.
Why use it?
It prevents useful access procedures from being lost after one successful investigation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the spotlight plugin — 26 skills, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit It helps document reliable browser-based ways to acquire information from a particular source or domain.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/buriedsignals/spotlight/acquisition-graduation
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.

Any agent
npx skills add buriedsignals/spotlight --skill acquisition-graduation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/buriedsignals/spotlight

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install spotlight, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 26 skills, 4 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for acquisition-graduation

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/buriedsignals/spotlight/acquisition-graduation/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/buriedsignals/spotlight/acquisition-graduation)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/buriedsignals/spotlight/acquisition-graduation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/buriedsignals/spotlight/acquisition-graduation/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for acquisition-graduation

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/buriedsignals/spotlight/acquisition-graduation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/buriedsignals/spotlight/acquisition-graduation.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 392 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00047 $0.00392
Opus 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00157
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00078
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00039

Measured 1mo ago against content hash d7e9bd502395, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

acquisition-graduation scanned grade A with 0 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 1mo ago.

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.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/acquisition-graduation/SKILL.md · 62 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 1mo ago First seen · 62 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A d7e9bd502395

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acquisition-graduation is a skill published in the GitHub repository buriedsignals/spotlight (56 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 392 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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