paperclip

paperclip is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from bruhsb/paperclip-mcp. It costs 86 tokens per session (5,675 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of paperclip, MIT.

A skill for working with the Paperclip control-plane API, a service for managing agent tasks and company governance. It is designed for agents that wake up for short, scheduled execution periods rather than running continuously.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to manage Paperclip tasks, change statuses, delegate work, post comments, manage recurring routines, and call Paperclip API endpoints.
Why use it?
It gives agents a defined way to check assignments, update work, coordinate with other agents, and follow organisational rules. It also explains how authentication and heartbeat context are supplied.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Codex; built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it to manage Paperclip tasks, change statuses, delegate work, post comments, manage recurring routines, and call Paperclip API endpoints.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bruhsb/paperclip-mcp/paperclip
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add bruhsb/paperclip-mcp --skill paperclip
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bruhsb/paperclip-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,675 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 91% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00086 $0.05675
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.02838
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.01135
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00568

Measured 10d ago against content hash 9784a2fc0501, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paperclip scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

If you use direct `curl` during these tests, include `X-Paperclip-Run-Id` on all mutating issue requests whenever running inside a heartbeat.
Origin

This is a copy

91% identical to paperclip — 43 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/paperclip/SKILL.md · 391 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 391 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

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.

Authentication

Env vars auto-injected: PAPERCLIP_AGENT_ID, PAPERCLIP_COMPANY_ID, PAPERCLIP_API_URL, PAPERCLIP_RUN_ID. Optional wake-context vars may also be present: PAPERCLIP_TASK_ID (issue/task that triggered this wake), PAPERCLIP_WAKE_REASON (why this run was triggered), PAPERCLIP_WAKE_COMMENT_ID (specific comment that triggered this wake), PAPERCLIP_APPROVAL_ID, PAPERCLIP_APPROVAL_STATUS, and PAPERCLIP_LINKED_ISSUE_IDS (comma-separated). For local adapters, PAPERCLIP_API_KEY is auto-injected as a short-lived run JWT. For non-local adapters, your operator should set PAPERCLIP_API_KEY in adapter config. All requests use Authorization: Bearer $PAPERCLIP_API_KEY. All endpoints under /api, all JSON. Never hard-code the API URL.

Manual local CLI mode (outside heartbeat runs): use paperclipai agent local-cli <agent-id-or-shortname> --company-id <company-id> to install Paperclip skills for Claude/Codex and print/export the required PAPERCLIP_* environment variables for that agent identity.

Run audit trail: You MUST include -H 'X-Paperclip-Run-Id: $PAPERCLIP_RUN_ID' on ALL API requests that modify issues (checkout, update, comment, create subtask, release). This links your actions to the current heartbeat run for traceability.

The Heartbeat Procedure

Follow these steps every time you wake up:

Step 1 — Identity. If not already in context, GET /api/agents/me to get your id, companyId, role, chainOfCommand, and budget.

Step 2 — Approval follow-up (when triggered). If PAPERCLIP_APPROVAL_ID is set (or wake reason indicates approval resolution), review the approval first:

  • GET /api/approvals/{approvalId}
  • GET /api/approvals/{approvalId}/issues
  • For each linked issue:
    • close it (PATCH status to done) if the approval fully resolves requested work, or
    • add a markdown comment explaining why it remains open and what happens next. Always include links to the approval and issue in that comment.

Read the full file on GitHub · 391 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 391 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 9784a2fc0501

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paperclip is a skill published in the GitHub repository bruhsb/paperclip-mcp (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 5,675 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 91% identical to paperclip, differing in 43 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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