rclone_serve_ftp

rclone_serve_ftp is a command for Claude Code from chaunsin/agent-skills. It costs 6 tokens per session (7,458 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of rclone_serve_dlna, Apache-2.0.

A basic FTP server that exposes files from an rclone remote. FTP is a standard protocol used by file-transfer clients and services.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps serve, read, and write an rclone remote through an FTP client or FTP-type rclone remote.
Why use it?
It gives FTP-compatible software access to remote cloud files without moving them to a local disk first.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code command (commands/*.md).

Good fit It helps serve, read, and write an rclone remote through an FTP client or FTP-type rclone remote.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/chaunsin/agent-skills/rclone_serve_ftp
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chaunsin/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 6 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 7,458 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 84% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 5.1 $0.00006 $0.07458
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.03729
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.01492
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00746

Measured 4d ago against content hash c429983d2448, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rclone_serve_ftp 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 4d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

84% identical to rclone_serve_dlna — 148 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/rclone-cli/references/commands/rclone_serve_ftp.md · 699 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 699 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

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

rclone serve ftp

Serve remote:path over FTP.

Synopsis

Run a basic FTP server to serve a remote over FTP protocol. This can be viewed with a FTP client or you can make a remote of type FTP to read and write it.

Server options

Use --addr to specify which IP address and port the server should listen on, e.g. --addr 1.2.3.4:8000 or --addr :8080 to listen to all IPs. By default it only listens on localhost. You can use port :0 to let the OS choose an available port.

If you set --addr to listen on a public or LAN accessible IP address then using Authentication is advised - see the next section for info.

Authentication

By default this will serve files without needing a login.

You can set a single username and password with the --user and --pass flags.

VFS - Virtual File System

This command uses the VFS layer. This adapts the cloud storage objects that rclone uses into something which looks much more like a disk filing system.

Cloud storage objects have lots of properties which aren't like disk files - you can't extend them or write to the middle of them, so the VFS layer has to deal with that. Because there is no one right way of doing this there are various options explained below.

The VFS layer also implements a directory cache - this caches info about files and directories (but not the data) in memory.

VFS Directory Cache

Using the --dir-cache-time flag, you can control how long a directory should be considered up to date and not refreshed from the backend. Changes made through the VFS will appear immediately or invalidate the cache.

    --dir-cache-time duration   Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s)
    --poll-interval duration    Time to wait between polling for changes. Must be smaller than dir-cache-time. Only on supported remotes. Set to 0 to disable (default 1m0s)

However, changes made directly on the cloud storage by the web interface or a different copy of rclone will only be picked up once the directory cache expires if the backend configured does not support polling for changes. If the backend supports polling, changes will be picked up within the polling interval.

Read the full file on GitHub · 699 lines

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. 4d ago First seen · 699 lines · 6 tokens per session scan A c429983d2448

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rclone_serve_ftp is a command published in the GitHub repository chaunsin/agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 6 tokens to every session and 7,458 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 84% identical to rclone_serve_dlna, differing in 148 lines, and is treated as a copy.