claude-sync-kit

claude-sync-kit

Cross-device sync for your Claude Code setup. A wizard skill that walks you through creating a private GitHub repo that mirrors your ~/.claude/ configuration across machines — settings, custom skills, plugin/MCP enablement — without ever committing your auth token.

Distributed as a Claude Code plugin via its own marketplace.

---

What this is

A single-skill Claude Code plugin. After you install it, ask Claude something like:

• "Sync my Claude Code setup to my laptop."
• "Get the same Claude config on a new machine."
• "Mirror my plugins and skills between PC and laptop."

The cross-device-sync skill activates and walks you through:

1. Choosing scope — what gets synced (settings, custom skills, CLI inventory) and what stays per-device (auth tokens, sessions, memory, plans, runtime state).
2. Creating a private repo — via gh repo create --private.
3. Scaffolding the repo — .gitignore, bootstrap, prereqs, push-from-machine, plus a per-MCP re-auth guide.
4. A security gate before first push — git ls-files check for credentials, .env, OAuth, Python build artifacts.
5. The second-machine workflow — prereqs → login → bootstrap → restart → re-authenticate connectors on first use.

The repo it creates is yours. This plugin doesn't host anything centrally and doesn't phone home.

---

Install

/plugin marketplace add Fluory/claude-sync-kit
/plugin install claude-sync-kit

Then start a conversation and ask Claude to sync your setup.

---

What gets synced

File / Folder	Synced?	Why
~/.claude/settings.json	YES	Master config with enabled plugins
~/.agents/skills/ (or wherever your skill content lives)	YES	The actual skill files
Plugin contents (~/.claude/plugins/cache/)	NO	Regenerates from marketplace on first start
MCP/connector list	YES (implicit)	Comes via enabled plugins in settings.json
MCP/connector auth tokens	NO	Each machine re-auths (security feature)
.credentials.json	NEVER	Your Claude auth token
~/.claude.json	NO	Runtime state, OAuth, growthbook
projects/, sessions/, tasks/, todos/	NO	Per-device session state
plans/, shell-snapshots/, cache/	NO	Local state

The bundled .gitignore covers all of this.

---

Why a wizard, not a CLI

A static template repo would force you into one structure. The wizard:

• Detects your OS on both machines (Windows-first; Mac/Linux templates best-effort).
• Picks up where your real skill content lives (junctions on Windows, symlinks on Unix often resolve to a separate skills directory).
• Generates only the scripts and gitignore entries you actually need.
• Runs the security gate as part of the flow, not as an opt-in.

You can also just lift the templates from skills/cross-device-sync/templates/ and use them directly without Claude in the loop.

---

What this is NOT

• Memory sync. claude-mem per-project memory is intentionally out of scope. It's per-project, per-device, conflict-prone.
• A public skill marketplace. This plugin helps you sync your own setup; it doesn't help you redistribute downloaded third-party skills.
• A backup tool. No history, no encryption. It's a configuration mirror, not a vault.

---

Caveats

• Windows is the tested path. The author runs it on Windows; Mac/Linux templates are reasonable but unverified. PRs welcome.
• Connectors re-auth per machine. This is on purpose — your Stripe key on one laptop should not appear on another via a sync. If this annoys you, you're using the wrong tool.
• GitHub Secret Scanning will catch leaked Claude tokens even in private repos and invalidate them. The .gitignore matters even when the repo is private. The skill enforces a pre-push check.

---

License

MIT. See LICENSE.

Author

@Fluory — Florian Hein.