Rclone Cloud Storage AI Skill Guide (Claude)

Overview & Engine Architecture

Rclone is a unified CLI for object stores and consumer clouds (S3, GCS, Azure Blob, B2, Drive, OneDrive, SFTP, WebDAV, local). copy adds/updates without deleting dest; sync makes dest match source including deletions. mount exposes a FUSE/WinFsp filesystem with optional VFS cache. crypt wraps another remote with client-side encryption. Agents must treat sync as destructive, always offer --dry-run, keep credentials in rclone.conf/env (never invent access keys), and pick VFS cache mode for the workload.