Half Clone

Half Clone is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by ykdojo in claude-code-tips.

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Install Half Clone

Copy Half Clone into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/ykdojo/claude-code-tips/tree/main/skills/half-clone ~/.claude/skills/half-clone

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/ykdojo/claude-code-tips.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/half-clone/SKILL.md in ykdojo/claude-code-tips
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/half-clone
Collection: One of 9 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Half Clone does

Half Clone clones the later half of the current Claude Code conversation, discarding earlier context to reduce token usage while preserving recent work. Use it when a session has grown long and you want to continue with only the latest context.

Half Clone is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Half Clone comes from a repository tagged agentic, agentic-ai, agentic-coding, agentic-workflow and ai.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Clone the later half of the current conversation, discarding earlier context to reduce token usage while preserving recent work.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Half Clone

What else does ykdojo publish alongside Half Clone?
Half Clone is one of 9 skills that DirSkills catalogs from ykdojo/claude-code-tips, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Actions Failure Analyzer, HN Summarize and Handoff. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Half Clone does, and is maintained by ykdojo in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the ykdojo/claude-code-tips page.
How does Half Clone compare to other Automation skills?
Half Clone ranks #180 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Half Clone against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.