"Sorry, can't make it — can you represent me?" usually transmits a vibe and a prayer. Then your representative gets asked the one question you didn't cover, guesses, and you spend Thursday unwinding it. A clone brief is what should have gone instead of you: your positions with their reasoning, your fallbacks in order, the red lines that end the conversation, what you'd happily trade — and the explicit boundary of what your representative may agree to versus must bring back. One page, readable in two minutes by a colleague, and structured enough that an agent could carry it too. In a world of…
Clone Brief is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the general-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/clone-brief/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when you can't attend a decision-making meeting, when double-booked, when briefing someone to negotiate for you, or 'what would you need from me to represent me?'. Produces the clone brief plus a 60-second verbal version for the person carrying it.
The Clone Brief Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 174,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/clone-brief curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/clone-brief/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/clone-brief/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/clone-brief/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/clone-brief/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\clone-brief\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/clone-brief/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Clone Brief is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the General category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{clone-brief-2026,
author = {mohitagw15856},
title = {Clone Brief [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/clone-brief/}
}Grade A · scanned 2026-08-02 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.
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