# flowdriver-covert-transport

Routes SOCKS5 traffic through Google Drive API calls so it survives DPI and SNI filtering. Useful on networks where a normal proxy gets blocked.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 310 installs · ★ 88
- Author: reason-machines
- License: not stated · policy=link-only · description only; the file stays with the author
- Source: https://github.com/reason-machines/trending-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/flowdriver-covert-transport/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-09
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/flowdriver-covert-transport

## What it does

The skill documents FlowDriver. A client binds a local SOCKS5 port, packs TCP requests into a binary format and pushes them into a shared Drive folder. On the other side a server polls that folder, pulls the request files down, makes real TCP connections and writes the answers back as files. From outside it reads as ordinary `googleapis.com` API traffic.

You need Go 1.25+, a Google Cloud project with the Drive API turned on, and `credentials.json` from an OAuth2 Desktop App client. Publish the app in the OAuth consent screen, or tokens expire every 7 days while it sits in Testing mode. Authentication happens once on your local machine; after that you copy `.token` and `credentials.json` to the server with `scp`.

The `google_folder_id` value has to be identical in both configs. Leave it blank on the first run and FlowDriver creates a “Flow-Data” folder, then writes the ID back into the config. The server starts without a browser as long as `.token` is already there.

## Requirements
- Works with: Google Drive

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add reason-machines/trending-skills --skill flowdriver-covert-transport -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/flowdriver-covert-transport/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/flowdriver-covert-transport/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add reason-machines/trending-skills --skill flowdriver-covert-transport -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/flowdriver-covert-transport/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add reason-machines/trending-skills --skill flowdriver-covert-transport -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/flowdriver-covert-transport/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install reason-machines/trending-skills flowdriver-covert-transport
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/flowdriver-covert-transport/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add reason-machines/trending-skills --skill flowdriver-covert-transport -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/reason-machines/trending-skills --path skills/flowdriver-covert-transport
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/flowdriver-covert-transport/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add reason-machines/trending-skills --skill flowdriver-covert-transport -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/reason-machines/trending-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/flowdriver-covert-transport/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- get traffic through a network that inspects packets
- run a SOCKS5 proxy without owning a VPS
- make connections look like Google API calls
- link a local app to a remote server through a shared Drive folder
- verify the proxy with a `curl` request

## Example prompts
- Set up FlowDriver: build the client and server from the repo and start SOCKS5 on `127.0.0.1:1080`
- Check the tunnel with `curl --socks5 127.0.0.1:1080 https://example.com`
- Deploy the FlowDriver server on a remote machine and copy `credentials.json` and `.token` there

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