rclone

rclone is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gvkhosla/compound-engineering-pi. It costs 94 tokens per session (1,031 once invoked), scanned D, original, MIT.

A command-line tool for moving and synchronising files between your computer and online storage services such as Amazon S3, Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2, Google Drive, or Dropbox.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to upload, sync, back up, and manage images, videos, documents, and other files in cloud storage.
Why use it?
It avoids handling each provider's upload process separately and helps check whether the required setup is ready before transferring files.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the compound-engineering plugin — 41 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

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 skills/gvkhosla/compound-engineering-pi/rclone
Any agent
npx skills add gvkhosla/compound-engineering-pi --skill rclone
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gvkhosla/compound-engineering-pi

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install compound-engineering, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 41 skills, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 94 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,031 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 3 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 $0.00094 $0.01031
Opus 5 $0.00047 $0.00515
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00206
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00103

Measured 5d ago against content hash eef920ae1400, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

rclone scanned grade D with 3 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/check_setup.sh), 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash
Origin

Copies of this mod

4 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

  • rclone — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
  • rclone — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
  • rclone — 95% identical, 12 lines differ
  • rclone — 88% identical, 7 lines differ
plugins/compound-engineering/skills/rclone/SKILL.md · 151 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 151 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

rclone File Transfer Skill

Setup Check (Always Run First)

Before any rclone operation, verify installation and configuration:

# Check if rclone is installed
command -v rclone >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo "rclone installed: $(rclone version | head -1)" || echo "NOT INSTALLED"

# List configured remotes
rclone listremotes 2>/dev/null || echo "NO REMOTES CONFIGURED"

If rclone is NOT installed

Guide the user to install:

# macOS
brew install rclone

# Linux (script install)
curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash

# Or via package manager
sudo apt install rclone  # Debian/Ubuntu
sudo dnf install rclone  # Fedora

If NO remotes are configured

Walk the user through interactive configuration:

rclone config

Common provider setup quick reference:

Provider Type Key Settings
AWS S3 s3 access_key_id, secret_access_key, region
Cloudflare R2 s3 access_key_id, secret_access_key, endpoint (account_id.r2.cloudflarestorage.com)
Backblaze B2 b2 account (keyID), key (applicationKey)
DigitalOcean Spaces s3 access_key_id, secret_access_key, endpoint (region.digitaloceanspaces.com)
Google Drive drive OAuth flow (opens browser)
Dropbox dropbox OAuth flow (opens browser)

Example: Configure Cloudflare R2

rclone config create r2 s3 \
  provider=Cloudflare \
  access_key_id=YOUR_ACCESS_KEY \
  secret_access_key=YOUR_SECRET_KEY \
  endpoint=ACCOUNT_ID.r2.cloudflarestorage.com \
  acl=private

Example: Configure AWS S3

rclone config create aws s3 \
  provider=AWS \
  access_key_id=YOUR_ACCESS_KEY \
  secret_access_key=YOUR_SECRET_KEY \
  region=us-east-1

Common Operations

Upload single file

rclone copy /path/to/file.mp4 remote:bucket/path/ --progress

Upload directory

rclone copy /path/to/folder remote:bucket/folder/ --progress

Sync directory (mirror, deletes removed files)

rclone sync /local/path remote:bucket/path/ --progress

Read the full file on GitHub · 151 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 5d ago First seen · 151 lines · 94 tokens per session scan D eef920ae1400

Subscribe to this mod's changes

rclone is a skill published in the GitHub repository gvkhosla/compound-engineering-pi (51 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 1,031 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 3 findings (asks for root, downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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