Agent skill · writing content · paperclipai
create-paperclip-bundled-skill
Turn an idea, tweet, or task into a skill in the Paperclip skills catalog (packages/skills-catalog). Use when asked to FIND or MAKE a skill and publish it as a bundled/optional catalog skill: research prior art, reference or author it, add examples, regenerate the manifest, open a PR.
Why this skill is useful
Adds a structured process for creating and validating skills in the Paperclip catalog, which the AI wouldn't reliably generate on its own.
What it needs
Requires xc installed locally. About 6k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-07. 75,771 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Create a Paperclip Bundled Skill Take source material — a tweet, a task description, a blog post, "make a skill that does X" — and land it as a skill in the Paperclip skills catalog (packages/skills-catalog/), delivered as a reviewed PR. The catalog is the shelf every Paperclip company browses and installs from, so the bar is: correct metadata, useful instructions, worked examples, and a clean validation run. The core rule is FIND before MAKE: if a good skill already exists (in the catalog, in this repo, or published on GitHub), reference or adapt it instead of writing a duplicate from scratch. When to use A human sends a tweet/link/idea and asks for it to become a Paperclip skill. A task asks to bundle an existing repo skill into the catalog. A task asks to add an external published skill to the catalog. When not to use The skill is company-private (belongs in that company's library via the Skills UI/API, not the shipped catalog). You only need a repo-internal agent skill for working on Paperclip itself — that goes in .agents/skills/ or skills/, with no catalog machinery. Step 0 — Capture the source material Understand exactly what the skill should teach before writing anything. Tweets / X links. Use the xc CLI (X API client). Paperclip engineering agent environments ship it preinstalled and pre-authenticated; it is not a tool you install or mint credentials for yourself. Check availability before relying on it: If xc is not on PATH, is unauthenticated, or the account lacks read access (the check above fails for any reason), delegate the fetch to a teammate with X/Twitter access (e.g. the Content Strategist agent) via a child issue: give them the URL and ask for full text of the post + thread any linked content. Other sources. Fetch linked articles/READMEs directly. Record the source URL — it goes in the skill body or PR description as attribution. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills paperclipai/create-paperclip-bundled-skill