Paperclip is a Node.js server and React application for coordinating AI agents as a business team, with goals, organizational roles, budgets, governance, and work tracking in one interface. It is used by people managing multiple agents or autonomous agent organizations across tools such as OpenClaw, Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. The catalogue includes skills, agents, an MCP add-on, and an instruction for working with Paperclip.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to paperclipai/paperclip. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/paperclipai/paperclip/master/.agents/skills/create-external-bot-integration/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclipWrote 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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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/paperclipai/paperclip/create-external-bot-integration"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/paperclipai/paperclip/create-external-bot-integration.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00056 | $0.01768 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00022 | $0.00707 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00011 | $0.00354 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00177 |
Grade A, and why
create-external-bot-integration 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 11d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 153 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Create an External Bot Integration
Make an existing external agent a useful Paperclip participant: Paperclip can assign work to it, and it can initiate governed work from its own conversation. It uses its relevant native capabilities, returns inspectable results to Paperclip, and participates in normal admission, authority, and finalization.
This workflow incorporates the September 30–October 9, 2026 Dot integration. Provider facts and code paths in the references are dated evidence, not a claim that every future bot supports the same APIs. Verify the current implementation and official provider documentation before choosing a transport or changing code.
1. Establish the release contract before narrowing the implementation
Read release-contract.md. Infer already-stated requirements and authorization from the conversation. Ask only about consequential unknowns; do not ask the user to repeat “two way,” Cloud, or use of Runner.
Record the target environment, acting identity, capabilities, allowed human setup steps, delivery/stop expectations, and checkable finish line. Keep one compact matrix in the existing plan or task. Follow repository conventions if creating a plan file. “Works” must name its level: prototype, real provider, real Runner, managed sandbox, deployed tenant, or unattended first-time onboarding.
Reuse the current implementation and qualification evidence. Inspect the relevant checkout, instructions, app/Cloud PRs, and Runner artifact. Do not recreate work already merged or apply an old plan to a different deployed revision.
2. Prove the uncertain provider boundary first
Identify supported ways to authenticate, wake the agent, load tools, correlate work, return results, and stop or revoke authority. Check events/subscriptions as well as direct APIs and chat channels. Do not assume that a bot mention wakes another bot, that MCP notifications wake an offline agent, or that a plugin listed in settings is callable in the agent's current conversation.
What ships with it
7 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.
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 153 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 44398cb3094e
create-external-bot-integration is a skill published in the GitHub repository paperclipai/paperclip (107,044 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 1,768 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-14.
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