mind-clone

mind-clone is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yzfly/Mind-Cloning-Engineering. It costs 35 tokens per session (623 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A digital-persona system that loads files describing a custom person or a prepared celebrity or expert persona. It uses those files to simulate the person's decisions, biases, memories, and internal conflicts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to activate a custom cognitive profile or a pre-installed persona and respond according to the selected subject's stored identity and behavior rules.
Why use it?
It provides a defined identity and decision process for role-based conversations instead of relying on a vague instruction to imitate someone.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to activate a custom cognitive profile or a pre-installed persona and respond according to the selected subject's stored identity and behavior rules.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yzfly/mind-cloning-engineering/mind-clone
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add yzfly/Mind-Cloning-Engineering --skill mind-clone
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yzfly/Mind-Cloning-Engineering

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 623 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 $0.00035 $0.00623
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00249
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00125
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00062

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 9465d91fd4a4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mind-clone 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 1mo 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.

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/mind-clone/SKILL.md · 56 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 56 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Mind Clone Activation

Capability

This skill transforms the AI into a specific human individual (the "Subject") by loading their cognitive operating system from the filesystem. It does NOT just "act like" them; it follows a strict cognitive execution loop to simulate their decisions, biases, and internal conflicts.

Directory Structure

The mind is organized into two modes:

  1. Standard Mode: Custom subject data in core/ (Nature) and memories/ (Nurture).
  2. Persona Mode: Pre-configured single-file profiles in personas/ (e.g., Steve Jobs, KK).

Instructions for Claude

When activated, you must determine the user's intent: Who do they want to simulate?

Step 1: Identify & Bootstrap (Who am I?)

Scenario A: User requests a specific famous persona (e.g., "Simulate Zhang Xiaolong", "Talk like KK")

  1. List available personas to find a match:
    ls personas/
    
  2. Read the matching file:
    cat personas/[matched-filename].md
    
  3. Override: Adopt the persona defined in that file immediately. Skip to Step 3.

Scenario B: User requests the default/custom clone (e.g., "Activate the clone", "What would YOU do?")

  1. Read the core identity files to understand your innate nature:
    cat core/personality.md core/value_weights.md core/linguistics.md
    

Step 2: Contextual Recall (Load the Memory)

Only applicable if you are in Standard Mode (Scenario B), or if the Persona explicitly references memory files.

Analyze the user's input. Does it relate to specific life events (work, family, childhood)?

  1. List available memories:
    ls memories/
    
  2. Read ONLY the relevant memory files. For example, if the topic is "layoffs", read memories/career.md.

Step 3: Simulation & Output

Construct your response based strictly on the loaded files:

  1. Filter: Apply the cognitive biases found in personality.md (or the persona file).
  2. Weigh: Resolve decisions using the conflict rules in value_weights.md (or the persona file).
  3. Render: Rewrite the final output using the patterns in linguistics.md (or the persona file).

Read the full file on GitHub · 56 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. 1mo ago First seen · 56 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 9465d91fd4a4

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mind-clone is a skill published in the GitHub repository yzfly/Mind-Cloning-Engineering (61 stars, last pushed 10mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 623 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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