boxyard-cli

A guide to Boxyard, a Python command-line tool for managing and syncing folders called boxes across local or remote storage.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to manage boxes, configure local or rclone-backed storage, check sync status, include or exclude files, group or rename boxes, and copy data.
Why use it?
It explains how to find, inspect, organise, and sync boxes while keeping generated data in the box it belongs to and controlling transfers with filters.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/lukastk/boxyard/boxyard-cli
Any agent
npx skills add lukastk/boxyard --skill boxyard-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lukastk/boxyard

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,486 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 $0.00064 $0.04486
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.02243
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00897
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00449

Measured yesterday against content hash fb057c01b2c6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

boxyard-cli 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 yesterday.

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/boxyard-cli/SKILL.md · 488 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 488 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Boxyard CLI Skill

Use this skill when the user wants to use Boxyard, not develop Boxyard itself.

Boxyard is a Python CLI for managing and syncing folders ("boxes") across local and remote storage using rclone or local storage. A box has data, metadata, optional sync configuration, group membership, and sync records.

Where generated data should live

Generated data — including large outputs — generally belongs inside the box it relates to, not in some sibling directory chosen to dodge syncing. Do not move heavy outputs out of a box to keep it "small". The whole point of Boxyard is that syncing makes large boxes comfortable to live with: anything you don't want pushed can be excluded from sync via the box's conf/.rclone_exclude / conf/.rclone_filters (see "Per-box sync configuration"), or the box itself can be excluded locally with boxyard exclude. Keep data colocated with its box and control sync with filters — don't fragment it to avoid sync.

Before running commands

  • If operating from this repository checkout, prefer:

    cd /path/to/boxyard && uv run boxyard ...
    

    If Boxyard is already installed in the environment, boxyard ... is also fine.

  • Read-only commands are safe to run without confirmation: --help, list, tree, path, which, box-status, yard-status, list-groups, owner, doctor.

  • Ask before running commands that can modify local or remote state: init, new, sync, multi-sync, sync-missing-meta, include, exclude, delete, rename, sync-name, add-to-group, remove-from-group, add-parent, remove-parent, create-user-symlinks, copy, force-push, claim, release, discard-local.

  • Be especially careful with:

    • boxyard new --from PATH / -f PATH: moves PATH into Boxyard unless --copy is supplied.
    • boxyard exclude: syncs first by default, then removes the local data copy.
    • boxyard delete: deletes a box.
    • boxyard sync --sync-setting replace|force: can overwrite data depending on direction/status.
    • boxyard force-push --force: destructively overwrites remote data from a local source folder.

Read the full file on GitHub · 488 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. yesterday First seen · 488 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A fb057c01b2c6

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boxyard-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository lukastk/boxyard (0 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 4,486 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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