setup-clones SKILL.md skillA

setup-clones from theonly1me/shadowclone is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add theonly1me/shadowclone/setup-clones@git:20261019.4a4d7d0

Pins git:20261019.4a4d7d0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
theonly1me/shadowclone
Path
plugins/shadowclone/skills/setup-clones/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20261019.4a4d7d0, committed Oct 19, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 19, 2026
Size
3,212 bytes
Repository stars
21
License
MIT

Configure shadowclone clones on this machine. A clone is Claude Code or Codex that works as the user, in Docker, toward a draft pull request. Use it when the user asks for clones, cloud sessions, or a background agent that works as them.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Set Up Clones

Do the whole setup for the user. The user answers questions in chat, pastes tokens into a file, and approves the skill files. Run the steps in order. Do not explain a step that works.

A clone runs Claude Code or Codex as the user, on the user's own subscription or key, in Docker on this machine. The user starts it from the CLI or from an agent that has the shadowclone MCP tools.

## Rules

- Never ask for a token in chat, and never read the secrets file. The user pastes each token into the secrets file.
- Show the skill files to the user. Call the next step with `approve: true` only after the user agrees.
- If a step fails, show the exact error, fix what you can, and run the step again.

## 1. Check the machine (1 minute)

1. Run `shadowclone --version`. If the command is missing, install the CLI with `npm install -g @shadowclone/cli@latest`. Never use `sudo`.
2. Run `gh auth status`. If it reports no login, ask the user to run `gh auth login` in a terminal.
3. Run `docker info`. If Docker does not run, ask the user to start Docker Desktop, OrbStack, or Docker Engine.

## 2. Ask two questions (30 seconds)
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add theonly1me/shadowclone/setup-clones@sha256:576c4d81d82bffc7

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261019.4a4d7d0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_ssusi3h2bonjoqy3.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_ssusi3h2bonjoqy3)

1 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Oct 19, 2026.

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git:20261019.4a4d7d0 latest2026-10-19 4a4d7d0 3,212 BA view · diff
git:20261019.5f26fa02026-10-19 5f26fa0 3,448 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3212 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

theonly1me/shadowclone · 21 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ssusi3h2bonjoqy3
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=theonly1me/shadowclone/setup-clones
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/576c4d81d82bffc7fa10a5c97610e8c9218b6defbb80b130af456dc69d81d503

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