acquiring-skills

acquiring-skills is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from letta-ai/letta-code. It costs 61 tokens per session (3,144 once invoked), scanned C, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for finding and installing skills from external skill registries such as GitHub and ClawHub. Skills are reusable instructions that give an agent new ways to handle specific tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Discovering skills, checking where they come from, installing trusted skills, and reviewing scripts before running them.
Why use it?
It helps when the agent lacks a needed capability and reduces the risk of installing unsafe or untrusted code without checking it first.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit Discovering skills, checking where they come from, installing trusted skills, and reviewing scripts before running them.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/letta-ai/letta-code/acquiring-skills
About the project

letta-ai/letta-code is an agent harness for building assistants that retain memory, identity, and experience across interactions instead of treating each task as isolated. Developers use it through local, desktop, browser, or messaging interfaces for interactive or continuously running agents, and its catalogue entries configure the agents' skills, instructions, rules, and behavior.

letta-ai/letta-code · 3,241 stars · on GitHub · letta.com

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 letta-ai/letta-code --skill acquiring-skills
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/letta-ai/letta-code

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,144 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 4 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Tool Misuse · line 114
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 240
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 114
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 240
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00061 $0.03144
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01572
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00629
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00314

Measured 10d ago against content hash 717f2d432914, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

acquiring-skills scanned grade C 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 10d 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

rm -rf /tmp/hermes-browse

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -s "https://clawhub.ai/api/v1/skills?q=calendar" | jq '.items[].slug'
src/skills/builtin/acquiring-skills/SKILL.md · 280 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 280 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Acquiring New Skills

This skill teaches you how to safely discover and install skills from external sources, including the Hermes Skills Hub, ClawHub (OpenClaw), GitHub repositories, and Letta community repos.

SAFETY - READ THIS FIRST

Skills can contain:

  • Markdown files (.md) - Risk: prompt injection, misleading instructions
  • Scripts (Python, TypeScript, Bash) - Risk: malicious code execution

Trusted Sources (no user approval needed for download)

  • https://github.com/letta-ai/skills - Letta's community skills
  • https://github.com/anthropics/skills - Anthropic's official skills
  • official/* - Hermes official optional skills (from NousResearch/hermes-agent)

Untrusted Sources (ALWAYS verify with user)

For ANY source other than the above:

  1. Ask the user before downloading
  2. Explain where the skill comes from
  3. Get explicit approval

This includes ClawHub community skills and arbitrary GitHub repos.

Script Safety

Even for skills from trusted sources, ALWAYS:

  1. Read and inspect any scripts before executing them
  2. Understand what the script does
  3. Be wary of network calls, file operations, or system commands

Cross-Harness Compatibility

Skills from Hermes, OpenClaw, and other ecosystems were written for their own harnesses. After installing, read the full SKILL.md before using it and watch for:

  • Harness-specific commands — e.g. hermes skills config, openclaw plugins install, /curator, /kanban. These won't exist in Letta. Determine whether the underlying capability can be achieved with Letta tools (Bash, the Skill tool, etc.) or if the skill simply doesn't apply.
  • Harness-specific paths and state — e.g. ~/.hermes/skills/, ~/.openclaw/skills/, ~/.hermes/config.yaml. Letta stores skills in the agent's memfs (<memory-dir>/skills/). Adapt any path references.
  • Toolset assumptions — some skills assume specific tool names or APIs (e.g. Hermes web toolset, OpenClaw browser tool). Map these to the equivalent Letta tools or note when no equivalent exists.
  • Platform gating — skills may declare platforms: [cli, discord, telegram] in frontmatter. Ignore platform restrictions that don't apply to Letta.
  • Environment variables — skills may require API keys or credentials. Check requires.env in frontmatter and note any setup the user needs to do.

Read the full file on GitHub · 280 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. 10d ago First seen · 280 lines · 61 tokens per session scan C 717f2d432914

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acquiring-skills is a skill published in the GitHub repository letta-ai/letta-code (3,241 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 3,144 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (recursive force delete, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.