dropbox

dropbox is a skill for Claude Code from danielsimonjr/dropbox-mcp. It costs 196 tokens per session (4,657 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A toolkit for keeping Dropbox files synchronized between a computer and the cloud. It also sorts loose files, finds duplicate PDFs, and installs rules that prevent selected files from syncing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Syncing folders, investigating sync drift, downloading cloud-only files, sorting files into topic folders, removing duplicate PDFs, and protecting Git repositories from Dropbox sync.
Why use it?
It helps diagnose and correct differences between local and cloud copies and keep Dropbox folders organized.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Part of the dropbox-mcp plugin — 1 skill, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Syncing folders, investigating sync drift, downloading cloud-only files, sorting files into topic folders, removing duplicate PDFs, and protecting Git repositories from Dropbox sync.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/danielsimonjr/dropbox-mcp/dropbox
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.

Any agent
npx skills add danielsimonjr/dropbox-mcp --skill dropbox
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielsimonjr/dropbox-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dropbox-mcp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 196 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,657 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00196 $0.04657
Opus 5 $0.00098 $0.02329
Sonnet 5 $0.00039 $0.00931
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00466

Measured 8d ago against content hash ec70f14cd8ac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

dropbox scanned grade B 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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 5 executable files (scripts/categorize.py, scripts/dbx_sync.py, scripts/execute.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

cat ~/.claude/playground/misc_organize/plan.json | jq '.[] | .folder' | sort | uniq -c
skills/dropbox/SKILL.md · 260 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 260 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dropbox

A toolkit for keeping local Dropbox folders in sync with cloud, sorting accumulated loose files, deduplicating, and protecting git repos from being synced.

Provenance: Built across 2026-06-06 and 2026-06-07 to recover a 225-file drift in /Misc and then sync /Team DC (43 subdirs, 3,927 files) bidirectionally. Patterns proven on those folders and consolidated into dbx_sync.py.

Skill root: this skill ships inside the dropbox-mcp plugin (repo danielsimonjr/dropbox-mcp, skills/dropbox/). Its scripts live in this skill's own scripts/ directory — resolve them relative to this SKILL.md's location. Slash trigger: /dropbox.

When to use this skill

Trigger this skill when the user wants any of:

  • Sync a Dropbox folder with the cloud, possibly recursively, possibly bidirectionally
  • Diagnose drift ("my dropbox isn't syncing", "files are out of sync") — start with a dry-run
  • Force-download cloud-only files when the Dropbox client has stalled
  • Sort loose files in a Dropbox subdirectory into existing topic subdirs (Sonnet-based categorization)
  • Reconcile (cloud)-suffixed duplicates from a prior sort
  • Add .dropboxignore to a git repo folder under Dropbox to stop .git/ from syncing
  • Resolve same-name files in different folders (move detection)

Do NOT use this skill for:

  • Sharing/permissions changes (no API support in current toolkit)
  • Content indexing for search (use misc_indexer/build_index.py separately)

Tool selection: skill scripts vs. dropbox-mcp plugin

This skill's Python scripts and the dropbox-mcp plugin's MCP tools are complementary, not redundant. They share the same auth (~/.claude/channels/dropbox/.env) but serve different shapes of work. Pick by the shape of the task, not by habit.

One-line heuristic: one file (any operation) or recovery → MCP tool. Many files, or a multi-phase plan → skill script.

The dropbox-mcp plugin exposes 11 atomic tools (as of plugin v0.3.0): four read-only (search, file_info, list_revisions, list_deleted), four mutating (download, upload, move, delete), and three recovery (restore, restore_batch, restore_revision). The skill scripts orchestrate those same primitives in bulk with a dry-run-then-execute plan.

Read the full file on GitHub · 260 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 8d ago First seen · 260 lines · 196 tokens per session scan B ec70f14cd8ac

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dropbox is a skill published in the GitHub repository danielsimonjr/dropbox-mcp (0 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 196 tokens to every session and 4,657 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.