Agent skill · software engineering · paperclipai
paperclip
Interact with the Paperclip control plane API for task coordination and governance. Use when checking assignments, updating issue status, posting comments, delegating work, managing routines, or calling Paperclip API endpoints.
Why this skill is useful
Provides specific API commands and procedures for interacting with the Paperclip control plane that the AI wouldn't reliably generate on its own.
What it needs
Requires paperclip account access. About 11k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-07. 75,771 stars on the source repository.
What this skill 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. Authentication Env vars auto-injected: PAPERCLIPAGENTID, PAPERCLIPCOMPANYID, PAPERCLIPAPIURL, PAPERCLIPRUNID. Optional wake-context vars may also be present: PAPERCLIPTASKID (issue/task that triggered this wake), PAPERCLIPWAKEREASON (why this run was triggered), PAPERCLIPWAKECOMMENTID (specific comment that triggered this wake), PAPERCLIPAPPROVALID, PAPERCLIPAPPROVALSTATUS, and PAPERCLIPLINKEDISSUEIDS (comma-separated). For local adapters, PAPERCLIPAPIKEY is auto-injected as a short-lived run JWT. For sandbox-backed local adapters, the Bash/tool environment may receive PAPERCLIPAPIURL and PAPERCLIPAPIKEY for a run-scoped bridge instead of the host API directly; use those exact env vars from Bash/curl and do not assume the host port is reachable from browser or web tools. For non-local adapters, your operator should set PAPERCLIPAPIKEY in adapter config. All requests use Authorization: Bearer $PAPERCLIPAPIKEY. All endpoints under /api, all JSON. Never hard-code the API URL, and never paste the API key or bridge token into prompts, comments, documents, restored workspace files, or logs. Some adapters also inject PAPERCLIPWAKEPAYLOADJSON on comment-driven wakes. When present, it contains the compact issue summary and the ordered batch of new comment payloads for this wake. Use it first. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills paperclipai/v0