🛡️ Acquiring Skills
This skill helps you safely discover and install external skills from trusted sources to bootstrap capabilities.
npx playbooks add skill letta-ai/letta-code --skill acquiring-skills
About Acquiring Skills
The Acquiring Skills tool enables the safe discovery and installation of external skills from trusted sources, allowing developers to bootstrap new capabilities in their AI coding assistants. This security-focused tool connects to trusted sources to facilitate the installation of new skills, expanding the capabilities of the coding assistant. A developer would reach for this tool when they need to add new skills to their assistant from trusted external sources.
This compact 16-word instruction set is purpose-built for security work in AI coding agents. Install with a single command.
Use Cases
- Auditing code for OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities
- Implementing authentication and authorization patterns
- Reviewing API security, rate limiting, and input validation
- Hardening infrastructure and dependency security
Example Prompts
System Prompt (16 words)
This skill helps you safely discover and install external skills from trusted sources to bootstrap capabilities.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Acquiring Skills?
Acquiring Skills is a free security skill for AI coding agents. This skill helps you safely discover and install external skills from trusted sources to bootstrap capabilities.. It provides a specialized system prompt that configures your agent with security expertise.
How do I use Acquiring Skills with Claude Code?
Run npx playbooks add skill letta-ai/letta-code --skill acquiring-skills in your terminal to install Acquiring Skills into your Claude Code session. It works immediately after installation.
Which AI coding agents work with Acquiring Skills?
Acquiring Skills is compatible with Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, OpenClaw, Cline, and any AI agent that supports custom system prompts or .cursorrules files.
Is Acquiring Skills free to use?
Yes, Acquiring Skills is completely free and open source. The full source is available on GitHub at https://github.com/letta-ai/letta-code/tree/main/src/skills/builtin/acquiring-skills. You only need a subscription to the AI agent you use it with.
