# Automate Dropbox File Workflows

Managing Dropbox through changing API schemas can make routine file workflows slow and error-prone. This skill provides structured Rube MCP sequences for searching, transferring, sharing, and organizing Dropbox content.

## Install

```bash
npx skillstore add sickn33/dropbox-automation
```

## Metadata

- Status: approved
- Slug: sickn33-dropbox-automation
- Skillstore revision: r2
- Version status: missing
- Tree hash: 1d2ab15cf2234d5f4af8f8d12d24ca6b2c3692c49526ed7927205992d6484297
- Author: sickn33
- GitHub username: sickn33
- License: MIT
- Repository: https://github.com/sickn33/antigravity-awesome-skills/tree/main/skills/dropbox-automation
- Ref: 88a8e9a07f4c54ab105c1c41b6267c287146b07b
- Supported tools: Claude, Codex, Claude Code
- Audit status: complete
- Agent install advisory: confirmation\_required
- Manual install advisory: allowed
- Artifact signature: available
- Audit attestation: unavailable
- Human verification: not\_verified
- Risk factors: external\_commands, network
- Quality score: 38
- Quality tier: warning
- Public page: https://skillstore.pages.dev/skills/sickn33-dropbox-automation
- Manifest: https://skillstore.pages.dev/api/skills/sickn33-dropbox-automation/manifest

## Capabilities

- Searches Dropbox files and folders by name, content, path, category, or extension, with cursor pagination.
- Uploads, downloads, reads, exports, and packages Dropbox files and folders.
- Creates or reuses sharing links with audience, access, expiration, password, and download settings.
- Creates, copies, moves, renames, and deletes files or folders, including supported batch operations.
- Lists folder contents recursively and retrieves canonical paths, deletion status, and media metadata.
- Polls asynchronous save, move, folder, and deletion jobs until Dropbox reports completion.

## Use Cases

- Organize project deliverables: Search, upload, and organize project deliverables while preserving canonical paths and handling naming conflicts.
- Prepare client asset delivery: Export Dropbox Paper, package folders, and prepare controlled sharing links for clients or partners.
- Maintain shared storage: Inventory shared folders, review metadata, and plan approved batch moves or deletions with status tracking.

## Prompt Templates

### Find a Dropbox file

```
Search Dropbox for files named [name] within [folder]. Show each canonical path, file type, and modified date, including all result pages.
```

### Upload with conflict protection

```
Upload [local file] to [Dropbox path] in add mode. If the name exists, stop and show conflict options before changing anything.
```

### Create a controlled sharing link

```
Find [Dropbox path] and check for an existing link. Reuse it when suitable; otherwise propose audience, access, expiration, password, and download settings.
```

### Reorganize a folder in batches

```
Inventory [source folder] recursively and propose moves into [destination structure]. Preview every batch, identify conflicts, request approval, execute approved changes, then poll completion.
```

## Limitations

- Requires Rube MCP and an active Dropbox OAuth connection managed through that external service.
- Tool names and parameters can change, so the current schema must be retrieved before each workflow.
- Dropbox rate limits, pagination caps, file sizes, entry counts, and asynchronous delays still apply.
- The source guidance does not require confirmation before sharing, overwriting, moving, or deleting content.

## Best Practices

- Retrieve current tool schemas before choosing parameters or executing a Dropbox workflow.
- Resolve canonical paths and preview affected items before uploads, moves, deletes, or sharing changes.
- Use restricted audiences, expirations, passwords, and explicit approval for sensitive files and destructive operations.

## Anti Patterns

- Do not assume a remembered tool schema or reuse stale cursors and job identifiers.
- Do not create duplicate links, overwrite files, or execute batch changes without reviewing existing state.
- Do not expose confidential content through public or editor links without explicit authorization.

## Security Audit

- Audited at: 2026-07-23T23:03:55.511\+00:00
- Summary: Static backtick and reconnaissance alerts are false positives caused by Markdown inline code and Dropbox workflow prose. The Rube endpoint is a real network dependency, with third-party OAuth access and unguarded high-impact Dropbox operations. Publication should require clear consent and confirmation controls for account access, sharing, overwrite, move, and delete actions.

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