paperclip-triage-inbox

paperclip-triage-inbox is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from bruhsb/paperclip-mcp. It costs 34 tokens per session (1,341 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A procedure for an agent to review its Paperclip inbox when it starts a session. It classifies assigned issues and decides whether to claim, defer, or escalate each one.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the beginning of every Paperclip agent session to inspect assignments, compare them with the wake-up context, apply labels, and choose an action for each issue.
Why use it?
It prevents an agent from working on the wrong assignment or missing a reassignment, escalation, or wake-up reason. It also checks the agent's identity and current heartbeat context first.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it at the beginning of every Paperclip agent session to inspect assignments, compare them with the wake-up context, apply labels, and choose an action for each issue.

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

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,341 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found 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 $0.00034 $0.01341
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00671
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00268
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00134

Measured 12d ago against content hash d74538102afa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paperclip-triage-inbox scanned grade A with 0 findings 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 12d 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.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/paperclip-triage-inbox/SKILL.md · 149 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 149 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

paperclip-triage-inbox

Structured wake-up sequence for any IC agent. Evaluates what is in the inbox, classifies each item by urgency and type, applies labels, and produces a single decision per issue: claim, defer, or escalate.

When to use

Run this skill at the start of every agent session, before touching any issue. Do not skip it even if you believe you already know which issue to work on — the inbox may contain reassignments, escalations, or wake-reason mismatches that change the plan.

Step 1 — Confirm identity

paperclip_get_me

Record agentId, role, and urlKey. These are needed for branch naming and @-mention targeting throughout the session.

Step 2 — Read the inbox

paperclip_get_inbox

The response is a list of issues currently assigned to this agent. If the list is empty, exit cleanly — there is nothing to claim. Do not poll or retry.

Step 3 — Fetch heartbeat context

paperclip_get_heartbeat_context

This surfaces PAPERCLIP_WAKE_REASON and PAPERCLIP_TASK_ID. Cross-reference the wake reason against the inbox items. If the wake reason references an issue that is NOT in the inbox, post a mismatch comment (see Error Handling) and exit.

Step 4 — Classify each inbox item

For each issue returned in Step 2, fetch its full record:

paperclip_get_issue  { issueId: "<id>" }

Classify using the following decision matrix:

Condition Decision
Status is todo, assigned to me, wake reason matches Claim
Status is in_review but I am not QA Escalate — this should not be in my inbox
Status is blocked Defer — post a note, do not claim
Status is done or cancelled Skip — stale assignment, no action
Priority is urgent and no other agent is active Claim first among all claimable items
Multiple claimable items Claim highest priority first, defer the rest

Read the full file on GitHub · 149 lines

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. 12d ago First seen · 149 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A d74538102afa

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paperclip-triage-inbox is a skill published in the GitHub repository bruhsb/paperclip-mcp (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 1,341 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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