acquire-skills

acquire-skills is a skill for Claude Code from martineserios/thebrana. It costs 45 tokens per session (2,673 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill finder and installer for technical or reasoning needs. It matches the current task or a keyword to relevant skills and can install them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scan a task, search for a topic such as Cloudflare, or find useful decision-making and analysis skills.
Why use it?
It helps fill gaps when you are working with unfamiliar technology, facing a difficult reasoning problem, or lack a suitable skill.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the brana plugin — 56 skills, 4 commands, 14 agents, 13 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to scan a task, search for a topic such as Cloudflare, or find useful decision-making and analysis skills.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/martineserios/thebrana/acquire-skills
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 martineserios/thebrana --skill acquire-skills
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/martineserios/thebrana

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install brana, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 56 skills, 4 commands, 14 agents, 13 hooks.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,673 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. ✓ AI security review Sonnet 5 · 7 Sept 2026 📄 Read the review
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 $0.00045 $0.02673
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01337
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00535
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00267

Measured 11d ago against content hash e333ead55f03, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

acquire-skills 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 11d 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.

system/skills/acquire-skills/SKILL.md · 291 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 291 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Acquire Skills

Find and install skills for the current task — across both tech and thinking/reasoning dimensions.

Usage

/brana:acquire-skills                    — scan current activity + project
/brana:acquire-skills <task-id>          — scan a specific task's needs
/brana:acquire-skills <keyword>          — direct search ("cloudflare", "decision matrix")

Never suggest these (brana workflow internals)

The following skills are system workflow tools, not capability skills. Never surface them as recommendations: build, backlog, close, sitrep, onboard, align, reconcile, ship, docs, retrospective, review, gemini, claudemd, plugin, scheduler, do, log, export-pdf, verify-docs, client-retire, cargo-machete, bash-defensive-patterns, rust-skills, gsheets, meta-templates, mcp-builder, memory, discover.

Thinking skills ARE valid to recommend: decide, brainstorm, challenge, swot-analysis, decision-matrix, critical-thinking-logical-reasoning, pre-mortem, inversion, first-principles, second-order-thinking, six-thinking-hats, systems-thinking, jobs-to-be-done.

Process

Step 0: Detect mode

From $ARGUMENTS:

  • No argument: run Steps 1a + 1b (activity detection + tech scan)
  • Task ID (t-NNN): read task from .claude/tasks.json, extract subject + tags + description → use as context for both Steps 1a and 1b
  • Keyword: skip Steps 1a + 1b entirely, use keyword directly in Step 3

Step 1a: Detect activity type

Read the current conversation context (recent turns) and any task/argument provided.

Classify the primary activity the user is doing right now:

Activity Signals Relevant thinking skills
Deciding "should I", "A or B", "which option", "choose between" decide, decision-matrix, six-thinking-hats
Strategizing "market", "competitive", "direction", "positioning", "business model" swot-analysis, systems-thinking, second-order-thinking, scenario-planning
Analyzing problem "why is", "root cause", "debug", "understand", "what caused" critical-thinking-logical-reasoning, first-principles, systems-thinking
Challenging / stress-testing "risk", "what could go wrong", "is this right", "review this plan" challenge, pre-mortem, inversion, critical-thinking-logical-reasoning
Ideating / exploring "idea", "what if", "explore", "brainstorm", "new approach" brainstorm, first-principles, jobs-to-be-done, second-order-thinking
Planning "how to approach", "phases", "roadmap", "before starting" pre-mortem, second-order-thinking, systems-thinking
Researching "learn about", "understand", "how does X work" critical-thinking-logical-reasoning, systems-thinking, jobs-to-be-done
Building implementation, coding, writing features tech skills only (Step 1b)

Read the full file on GitHub · 291 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. 11d ago First seen · 291 lines · 45 tokens per session scan E e333ead55f03

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acquire-skills is a skill published in the GitHub repository martineserios/thebrana (3 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 2,673 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.

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