Agent skill · writing content · paperclipai
paperclip-distill
Use when an operation issue is a Paperclip cursor-window, distill, or backfill. Turn source-bundled Paperclip activity into wiki-insightful project standups, durable project pages, decisions, and history without asset dereferencing.
Why this skill is useful
Provides domain-specific knowledge on distilling Paperclip project activity into insightful wiki pages, which the AI wouldn't reliably generate on its own.
What it needs
About 7k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-07. 75,771 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Paperclip Distill Distill Paperclip project, issue, comment, and document activity into durable wiki pages. The success criterion is wiki-insightful, not procedural: a reader who has never seen Paperclip should learn what the project is, what was decided, what is at risk, and what the current state is — without scanning a list of ## [YYYY-MM-DD] headers. When this skill is needed Cursor-window distillation: the routine fed you a bounded source bundle of recent Paperclip activity for one project or root issue. Backfill: the user asked to seed the wiki with the historical activity of a project or root issue. Source window may be wide. Manual distill-paperclip-now request from the UI. If the operation issue is operationType: "ingest" (raw file) or operationType: "query", this is the wrong skill — use wiki-ingest or wiki-query. Destination space In Phase 1, every Paperclip distill, backfill, and cursor-window operation writes into the default wiki space. The operation issue should always carry spaceSlug: "default". If an operation issue passes any other slug, stop and surface the mismatch in a comment — do not write Paperclip-derived pages into a non-default space. This rule is destination-only. The Paperclip source scope (which projects, root issues, comments, documents are read) is set elsewhere in the operation issue and is independent of the destination. Inputs A Paperclip source bundle (issue list, comment refs, document refs, source hash, cursor window). An existing or planned wiki/projects/<slug>/standup.md page path. An existing or planned wiki/projects/<slug>/index.md page path. The operation issue's target wikiId, spaceSlug, space root, and the target space's AGENTS.md for page conventions. The current wiki/projects/<slug>/standup.md, wiki/projects/<slug>/index.md, decisions.md, and history.md if they already exist (so you write a patch, not a rewrite). …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills paperclipai/paperclip-distill