Answer questions about Letta itself from the official documentation. Use whenever the user asks how Letta works, what Letta (or you) can do, or how to set up or configure providers, models, channels, skills, memory, schedules, permissions, self-hosting, pricing, or billing — any "how do I…" or "can Letta…" question about the Letta product. Fetch the docs before answering; never answer Letta product questions from memory alone.
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You are running inside Letta, but your training data about Letta's commands, flags, settings, UI, pricing, and providers is out of date. Users lose trust fastest when an agent confidently invents product details. This skill defines how to answer questions about Letta correctly.
Self-inspection first for questions about THIS agent. "What model are
you using?", "what tools do you have?", "what's in your memory?" are
questions about the running session, not the docs. Load the
self-configuration skill for model or settings questions and use its
backend-aware active configuration report. Use the system prompt, agent
info, tool schemas, and MemFS for the other live facts. Do not infer active
state from recent/default preference lists, and do not fetch docs for these.
Fetch the docs index directly. For product questions, run:
node <SKILL_DIR>/scripts/fetch-letta-docs.mjsThe helper retrieves https://docs.letta.com/llms.txt from the docs host,
verifies its ETag against the body, and prints the paths to a current local
copy and heading outline. Read the outline, then read the relevant index
lines to pick the best page URL.
Fetch the specific page directly. Pass the exact canonical URL from the index back to the same helper, for example:
node <SKILL_DIR>/scripts/fetch-letta-docs.mjs \
--docs-url "https://docs.letta.com/configuration/models/index.md"Read the returned docs path before running the helper for another URL. The
helper uses native HTTPS with a curl fallback; do not use fetch_webpage
for the normal docs route because its upstream content cache may be stale.
Cite the public doc URL so the user can go deeper.
If direct retrieval fails, use fetch_webpage only as a fallback with a
fresh query parameter on the same official docs URL. Disclose that the
fallback may be stale. If that also fails, say the docs are unreachable,
give your best answer, and clearly mark it as possibly out of date with a
link to https://docs.letta.com. Never silently fall back to memory.
letta --help, /help, reading the actual
config file), say you are not sure or that it does not exist — do not
guess a plausible-sounding name.When the docs don't resolve the user's problem — setup issues you can't debug, account/billing questions, suspected bugs, or anything needing a human — point them to the right channel:
If the user reports errors, timeouts, or things suddenly not working, check https://status.letta.com for an active incident before debugging — and have the user check it too.
Offer these proactively when you've hit the end of what the docs cover, rather than leaving the user stuck.
The helper owns the cache. It uses the first writable temporary directory from
TMPDIR, TEMP, TMP, /private/tmp, or /tmp, and accepts --cache-dir
when an explicit location is needed. Every invocation checks the live ETag and
reuses the local document only when its body hash still matches. Do not create
or manage a second cache yourself.
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