cloning-project

cloning-project is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from oaustegard/claude-skills. It costs 90 tokens per session (1,032 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for exporting a Claude.ai project’s custom instructions and uploaded knowledge files into a bundle that can be imported elsewhere.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to copy a project to another workspace or account, preserve its instructions and reference files, or recreate the same setup elsewhere.
Why use it?
It helps back up or move a Claude.ai workspace without confusing it with copying a code repository.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Not installable: its command points at a path on the author’s own machine, so it runs nowhere else. The line is /home/claude/project-instructions.md.

Good fit Use it to copy a project to another workspace or account, preserve its instructions and reference files, or recreate the same setup elsewhere.

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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, Codex.

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Per session 90 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,032 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 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 $0.00090 $0.01032
Opus 5 $0.00045 $0.00516
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00206
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00103

Measured yesterday against content hash 9f5be02bb954, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cloning-project 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.

cloning-project/SKILL.md · 140 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 140 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cloning Project

When users request to clone, copy, export, or backup their current project:

When NOT to use this skill

"Project" here is a Claude.ai workspace, never a code repository. The word collides badly, so route by what is actually being copied:

Situation Use
Clone or fetch a git repo accessing-github-repos
"I just cloned this, what is it?" exploring-codebases
What a codebase contains or exposes tree-sitting
Back up a repo's files git, not this

This skill reads the Claude.ai workspace you are talking in. It touches no checkout and knows nothing about code.

Step 1: Verify Project Context

Check if the user is in a project by looking for project-specific indicators:

  • Project instructions in the context window
  • Knowledge files mentioned in <available_skills> or similar sections
  • User explicitly stating they're in a project

If not in a project, inform the user that this skill requires being inside a Claude project.

Step 2: Gather Project Instructions

Project instructions are typically found in the context window as XML or markdown content describing the project's purpose and configuration. Extract and save these instructions to a file.

Create the instructions file:

cat > /home/claude/project-instructions.md << 'INSTRUCTIONS'
[Extracted project instructions content]
INSTRUCTIONS

Step 3: Locate Knowledge Files

Knowledge files are user-uploaded documents stored in /mnt/user-data/uploads/. List all files:

ls -lh /mnt/user-data/uploads/

If knowledge files exist, copy them to the working directory for bundling:

cp /mnt/user-data/uploads/* /home/claude/project-export/

Step 4: Create Export Bundle

If only project instructions exist (no knowledge files):

  • Copy instructions directly to outputs:
    cp /home/claude/project-instructions.md /mnt/user-data/outputs/
    

If project has both instructions and knowledge files:

  • Create an organized export directory:
    mkdir -p /home/claude/project-export
    cp /home/claude/project-instructions.md /home/claude/project-export/
    cp /mnt/user-data/uploads/* /home/claude/project-export/ 2>/dev/null || true
    
  • Create zip bundle:
    cd /home/claude
    zip -r /mnt/user-data/outputs/project-export.zip project-export/
    
  • Show bundle contents:
    unzip -l /mnt/user-data/outputs/project-export.zip
    

Read the full file on GitHub · 140 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. yesterday Changed · -9 lines 9f5be02bb954
  2. 11d ago First seen · 149 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A c0238125ce1c

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cloning-project is a skill published in the GitHub repository oaustegard/claude-skills (148 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 1,032 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-30.

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