paperclip

paperclip is a skill for Claude Code from felipefontoura/bento. It costs 131 tokens per session (2,842 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for operating Paperclip, an application for configuring agents, skills, projects, issues, and goals through an API.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create and configure agents, write their instruction bundles, import or sync skills, manage board items, and connect the official MCP server.
Why use it?
It keeps application state consistent by using the API for changes instead of editing the database or files directly.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the bento plugin — 13 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to create and configure agents, write their instruction bundles, import or sync skills, manage board items, and connect the official MCP server.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/felipefontoura/bento/paperclip
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install bento, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills.

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Per session 131 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,842 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 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 $0.00131 $0.02842
Opus 5 $0.00066 $0.01421
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00568
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00284

Measured 9d ago against content hash 70b85796fd0e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 9d 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.

curl -s -H "authorization: Bearer $TOK" "https://$PAPERCLIP_HOST/api/companies/$COMPANY/agents"
plugins/bento/skills/paperclip/SKILL.md · 202 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 202 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You operate the application API of a paperclip stack that is already deployed by bento. This is day-2 work: you configure agents and skills, manage the board, and wire integrations. You do NOT install or redeploy the stack — that is /bento:deploy. All artifacts stay in English.

Golden rule — mutate via the API, never the DB or disk. Creating agents, editing instruction bundles, syncing skills, and changing config must go through the HTTP API. The API validates schemas, applies defaults, fires the runtime side-effects the app expects (instruction-folder scaffold, config revisions, audit log, skill-content sync), and never leaves an agent half-built. Raw INSERT/UPDATE on Postgres or cat > file into the container can diverge from what the app expects. The only tolerated DB exception is minting a bootstrap board key (below) — and you delete it after. Read-only DB/code inspection to understand the API is always fine.

When to invoke

  • "create / configure a paperclip agent (CEO, chiefs, ICs)"
  • "write the instruction bundle (SOUL / AGENTS / HEARTBEAT / TOOLS)"
  • "import skills into paperclip" / "sync an agent's skills"
  • "delete issues / clean up the board / reset failed runs"
  • "wire the paperclip MCP server into hermes (control plane)"

For getting paperclip running use /bento:deploy. For provider API keys (OpenAI/Anthropic) use /bento:auth — paperclip reads those propagated envs.

Discover the instance — don't hardcode

Read the host from bento state on the VPS (same source the other skills use):

ssh "$user@$host" "jq -r '.envs.paperclip.PAPERCLIP_HOST' \$HOME/.config/bento/state.json"

Base URL is https://<PAPERCLIP_HOST>. Find the company id (you almost always need it — most routes are /api/companies/:companyId/...):

# from inside the box, against the loopback API (see headless mode below)
docker exec "$(paperclip_container)" node -e \
  'fetch("http://127.0.0.1:3100/api/companies",{headers:{authorization:"Bearer "+process.env.TOK}}).then(r=>r.json()).then(d=>console.log(JSON.stringify(d,null,2)))'

Read the full file on GitHub · 202 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. 9d ago First seen · 202 lines · 131 tokens per session scan A 70b85796fd0e

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paperclip is a skill published in the GitHub repository felipefontoura/bento (20 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 131 tokens to every session and 2,842 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.