acquiring-skills

Installation
SKILL.md

Acquiring New Skills

This skill teaches you how to safely discover and install skills from external sources.

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

Untrusted Sources (ALWAYS verify with user)

For ANY source other than letta-ai or anthropics:

  1. Ask the user before downloading
  2. Explain where the skill comes from
  3. Get explicit approval
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Jan 27, 2026