rclone_authorize

rclone_authorize is a command for coding agents from chaunsin/agent-skills. It costs 3 tokens per session (390 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A command for authorising rclone, a tool that connects files to cloud storage and other remote services. It is designed for setting up access from a computer with a web browser, including a headless computer without one.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to authorise a specific rclone storage backend such as Google Drive or Amazon S3, prevent automatic browser opening, or generate customised HTML output.
Why use it?
It helps complete remote-service sign-in when the computer running rclone cannot open a browser. It accepts an existing configuration token or service client credentials and can provide a link for authorisation.

Command

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/chaunsin/agent-skills/rclone_authorize
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chaunsin/agent-skills

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Per session 3 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 390 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00003 $0.00390
Opus 5 $0.00002 $0.00195
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00078
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00039

Measured 3d ago against content hash ce5f9e1c8574, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rclone_authorize 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 3d 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.

skills/rclone-cli/references/commands/rclone_authorize.md · 54 lines

What it actually says

Official documentation: https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_authorize/

rclone authorize

Remote authorization.

Synopsis

Remote authorization. Used to authorize a remote or headless rclone from a machine with a browser. Use as instructed by rclone config. See also the remote setup documentation.

The command requires 1-3 arguments:

  • Name of a backend (e.g. "drive", "s3")
  • Either a base64 encoded JSON blob obtained from a previous rclone config session
  • Or a client_id and client_secret pair obtained from the remote service

Use --auth-no-open-browser to prevent rclone to open auth link in default browser automatically.

Use --template to generate HTML output via a custom Go template. If a blank string is provided as an argument to this flag, the default template is used.

rclone authorize <backendname> [base64_json_blob | client_id client_secret] [flags]

Options

      --auth-no-open-browser   Do not automatically open auth link in default browser
  -h, --help                   help for authorize
      --template string        The path to a custom Go template for generating HTML responses

See the global flags page for global options not listed here.

See Also

  • rclone - Show help for rclone commands, flags and backends.
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. 3d ago First seen · 54 lines · 3 tokens per session scan A ce5f9e1c8574

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rclone_authorize is a command published in the GitHub repository chaunsin/agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 3 tokens to every session and 390 once invoked, about $0.0000 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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