clone-into-existing-site

clone-into-existing-site is a skill for Claude Code from a8cteam51/claude-code-plugins. It costs 180 tokens per session (1,770 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A workflow for replacing the content files of an existing local WordPress Studio site with a cloned GitHub repository while keeping the site's local data and installed themes and plugins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a working local Studio site should use the contents of a GitHub repository. It is intended for sites that already have local data to preserve.
Why use it?
It lets you put an existing local site under the repository's code without losing uploads, the SQLite database, or other local runtime files.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Runs only inside a plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else, and the catalogue could not identify which plugin ships it.

Install

Getting it into your agent

There is no command for this one: it runs only inside a plugin, and the catalogue could not identify which plugin ships it. The source is linked below.

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 180 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,770 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 5.1 $0.00180 $0.01770
Opus 5 $0.00090 $0.00885
Sonnet 5 $0.00036 $0.00354
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00177

Measured 5d ago against content hash 20c38ceaa0b2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

clone-into-existing-site scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 5d 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

- Do not run `git clone`, `mv wp-content`, or `rm -rf wp-content-temp` outside the script.
plugins/studio-repo-clone/skills/clone-into-existing-site/SKILL.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Convert an existing Studio site's wp-content into a git clone

Trigger when the user already has a working local WordPress site (typically created via Studio) and wants to replace its wp-content with a fresh clone of a GitHub repo, without losing local runtime data (uploads, the SQLite database, and the SQLite drop-in). For brand-new sites with no local state to preserve, use the clone-new-site skill instead.

All filesystem mutation, git auth preflight, runtime-data restoration, and .gitignore patching are delegated to ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/clone-into-existing-site.sh. Never re-implement these steps inline; that breaks the repeatability guarantee and risks losing the user's local data.

Step 0 — extract the repo from the user's message

The user will reference the repo as one of:

  • Full GitHub URL: https://github.com/owner/repo or .git
  • SSH URL: [email protected]:owner/repo.git
  • Shorthand: owner/repo

If no repo is identifiable, ask once via AskUserQuestion (free-text via "Other"). Do not guess.

Step 1 — pick the target site

The script needs the site root directory (the dir that contains wp-content/), not wp-content/ itself.

Detect candidate sites by parsing studio site list --format json:

studio site list --format json 2>/dev/null | jq -r '.[] | "\(.name)\t\(.path)"' 2>/dev/null

Then decide:

  • cwd is the root of a Studio site (cwd contains wp-content/ and matches a path from studio site list) → propose cwd as the target. State this in plain text and confirm before mutating.
  • studio site list returned one or more sites → AskUserQuestion listing each <name> (<path>) as an option, plus an "Other" option for a custom path.
  • studio site list is empty / studio not on PATH / jq not installed → AskUserQuestion with cwd as the recommended option and "Other" for free-text. If the user types a path, expand ~ to $HOME before passing it on.

Whatever path is chosen, before invoking the script verify it exists and contains a wp-content/ directory. If it doesn't, surface that and ask again rather than guessing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 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. 5d ago First seen · 91 lines · 180 tokens per session scan C 20c38ceaa0b2

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clone-into-existing-site is a skill published in the GitHub repository a8cteam51/claude-code-plugins (3 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 180 tokens to every session and 1,770 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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