paperclip

paperclip is a skill for Claude Code from KalarisLabs/research-agent-skills. It costs 171 tokens per session (6,039 once invoked), scanned C, original, no licence file.

Search and read full-text biomedical papers, FDA/PMDA/EMA regulatory documents, clinical trial registries, and UniProt/PDB/ChEMBL entries with the Paperclip CLI from GXL. Covers installing and authenticating the paperclip binary with a PAPERCLIPAPIKEY, the read-only virtual filesystem under /papers, /fda, /trials…

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kalarislabs/research-agent-skills/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 KalarisLabs/research-agent-skills --skill paperclip
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/KalarisLabs/research-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 171 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,039 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00171 $0.06039
Opus 5.5 $0.00068 $0.02416
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00034 $0.01208
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00604

Measured today against content hash 04e82fba9d42, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

paperclip scanned grade C with 2 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 today.

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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl -fsSL https://paperclip.gxl.ai/install.sh | bash # macOS/Linux; ~/.local/bin/paperclip

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -fsSL https://paperclip.gxl.ai/install.sh | bash # macOS/Linux; ~/.local/bin/paperclip
skills/paperclip/SKILL.md · 438 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

6 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. today First seen · 438 lines · 171 tokens per session scan C 04e82fba9d42

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paperclip is a skill published in the GitHub repository KalarisLabs/research-agent-skills (105 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 171 tokens to every session and 6,039 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-11-07.

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