Agent Skill
Replica Recon skill
replica-reconJakeschincariol/replica-skillreplica-recon/SKILL.md
Reverse-engineers any app into a recon map: screen inventory, user flows, component list, inferred data model and a feature matrix, from public pages, screenshots, app store listings, help docs and the user's own account. The first step of the Replica pack. Use when the user says "clone this app", "reverse engineer X", "how does X work", "map out X", "what screens does X have", "I want to build my own version of X", "copy this app", or pastes an app's URL or App Store link and wants to rebuild it.
always on
124 tokname + description
once used
1,215 tokSKILL.md body
bundled files
22 KB
repo stars
4.2kGitHub
Install the Replica Recon skill
Skills CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others)
npx skills add https://github.com/Jakeschincariol/replica-skill --skill replica-recon
Claude Code, by hand (all projects)
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Jakeschincariol/replica-skill.git /tmp/replica-skill mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills cp -R /tmp/replica-skill/replica-recon ~/.claude/skills/replica-recon
For one project only, copy the folder into .claude/skills/ in that project instead. The agent picks it up when a task matches its description.
What it costs your context
Agent Skills load in three steps. Tokens counted with the o200k tokenizer; your model's count will differ a little.
| When | What loads | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Every session | Name and description | 124 tok |
| When the agent uses it | The SKILL.md instructions | 1,215 tok |
| Only if opened | 2 bundled files (2 KB) | varies |
Until it is used, replica-recon costs about 11× less than the median MCP server we measured (1,363 tokens on every turn). Installing all 11 skills from Jakeschincariol/replica-skill would load 1,257 tokens of descriptions. Skills vs MCP study
Checks
Our checks found nothing to flag: it follows the Agent Skills specification's naming and size guidelines and doesn't pipe downloads into a shell.
Checked 2026-10-22 · method
What's inside
The headings of its SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub.
- replica-recon
- The rules, before anything else
- Step 1: scope
- Step 2: list the sources
- Step 3: screen inventory
- Step 4: user flows
- Step 5: components
- Step 6: inferred data model
- Step 7: feature matrix
- Step 8: what cannot be cloned
- Step 9: size it
- Output
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4.2k101 tok idle · 814 in use - replica-deployJakeschincariol/replica-skill
Ships an app clone live on the user's own domain: a preflight gate (tests green, parity must-haves done, rebrand sweep clean, listing linted, legal pages up), production database and env vars, the host, DNS records for the domain and for email, Stripe live mode, OAuth redirects, monitoring, and mobile builds to TestFlight and Play. Use when the user says "deploy it", "ship it", "put it live", "connect my domain", "go to production", "publish the app", or after /replica-launch.
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