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Overview

The fastest way to add Latitude to an app is to let your coding agent do it. Latitude publishes a set of Agent Skills that teach an agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, OpenCode, …) how to instrument your code, drive the CLI, and confirm that real traces arrive — following Latitude best practices. There are two entry points, depending on whether you already have a Latitude account.

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The skills

All skills live in the public latitude-dev/skills repo. Most agents can install them with the skills CLI: 
npx skills add https://github.com/latitude-dev/skills --skill latitude-setup,latitude-cli,latitude-telemetry
SkillWhat it does
latitude-setupZero-account orchestrator: bootstrap → instrument → verify → claim.
latitude-telemetryAdds Latitude / OpenTelemetry instrumentation to your app.
latitude-cliInstalls and drives the latitude CLI.
latitude-setup builds on the other two, so install all three together for the from-scratch flow.

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No account yet

If you don’t have a Latitude account, paste this prompt into your coding agent: 
Install the `latitude-setup` skill from `github.com/latitude-dev/skills`, and use it to add Latitude tracing to this app following best practices.
The latitude-setup skill orchestrates the whole zero-account flow:
  1. Installs the latitude CLI and the Latitude skills.
  2. Bootstraps a temporary account — no signup — with an API key and a project.
  3. Instruments your app (via the latitude-telemetry skill) against that project.
  4. Runs your real code and inspects the resulting traces, iterating until they look right.
  5. Cleans up the trace noise and hands you a claim link.
Open the claim link in your browser to take ownership of the temporary account and keep it. Unclaimed temporary accounts expire automatically.
The skill presents a plan and waits for your approval before it edits any code, and it never prints your API key in the chat.

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Already have an account

If you’re already signed in, skip the temporary account and point the agent straight at your existing project: 
Install the `latitude-telemetry` skill from `github.com/latitude-dev/skills`, and use it to add Latitude tracing to this app following best practices.
Give the agent your LATITUDE_API_KEY and LATITUDE_PROJECT_SLUG when it asks — or connect the MCP server so it can look them up — and it will instrument your app and verify traces the same way.
Once traces are flowing, head to the telemetry guides for provider-specific details, or the CLI and MCP server pages to keep driving Latitude from your terminal or agent.