paperclip
Use for Paperclip-managed tasks and heartbeats: reading task context, delivering task documents or files, updating completion or blockers, coordinating or delegating work, and following company governance. Includes control plane API operations for assignments, comments, approvals, and routines.
Before you install
- Last update
- Files in folder
- 13
- Scripts
- Contains scripts. Review them before running.
- SKILL.md size
- 70 KB (about 17,939 tokens of context each time it loads)
- License
- MIT
- Source on GitHub
- paperclipai/paperclip
Skills are plain text instructions the agent follows, sometimes with scripts. Check the source, prefer repositories with many installs and stars, and read any script it ships.
Install
npx skills add paperclipai/paperclip@paperclip-3Runs in a terminal with Node.js 18 or newer. Add -y to skip the prompts and -g to install for every project instead of this one.
Install for your agent
npx skills add paperclipai/paperclip@paperclip-3 --agent claude-code -y- Project install writes to
.claude/skills/paperclip-3- Global install writes to
~/.claude/skills/paperclip-3
Start a new session afterwards so the agent picks the skill up. In Claude Code you can also call it directly with /paperclip-3.
What it does
Paperclip Skill You run in heartbeats — short execution windows triggered by Paperclip. Each heartbeat, you wake up, check your work, do something useful, and exit. You do not run continuously. Terminology In Paperclip, task and issue refer to the same work item. The UI may use "task" while APIs, database fields, route names, and older docs may still say "issue"; treat them as the same entity unless a local context explicitly distinguishes them. Task documents (API runtimes). When asked for a task document, save it on the Paperclip issue with PUT /api/issues/{issueId}/documents/{key}, unless…
Excerpt from the skill's own SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub before installing: skills run with your agent's permissions.
Categories
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