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.
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.
npx skills add paperclipai/paperclip --skill paperclip-capsulesgit 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/paperclipai/paperclip/paperclip-capsules)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/paperclipai/paperclip/paperclip-capsules"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/paperclipai/paperclip/paperclip-capsules/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/paperclipai/paperclip/paperclip-capsules"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/paperclipai/paperclip/paperclip-capsules.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- Snyk pass
- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00041 | $0.01212 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00020 | $0.00606 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00008 | $0.00242 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00121 |
Grade A, and why
paperclip-capsules 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Paperclip Capsules
Use this skill when creating or checking Paperclip capsule visuals. The central rule is simple: the capsule is the agent. A capsule is not generic chrome, a button shape, a random status pill, or background decoration.
The one approved decorative exception is the canonical hero capsule bank. Treat it as a specific Paperclip brand surface, not a license to make arbitrary capsule wallpaper.
When to Use
- Generating Paperclip capsule art, agent avatars, capsule fields, hero capsule banks, or seeded capsule identicons.
- Implementing an individual agent capsule in product UI.
- Rendering heartbeat status capsules for agent status.
- Building Paperclip feature videos or marketing graphics that use the capsule motif.
- Reviewing a design for capsule brand correctness.
When Not to Use
- Generic rounded pills, badges, buttons, tags, nav items, or decorative blobs.
- Non-agent illustrations where capsules would only be visual texture.
- Product UI color choices unrelated to agents or heartbeat status.
- Replacing the app's existing
AgentCapsuleor status-color helpers from memory.
Non-Negotiable Rules
- Capsules represent agents. If the surface does not involve agents, do not add capsules.
- Do not use the agent capsule palette outside capsules. Never apply agent gradients to buttons, text, page backgrounds, cards, or generic UI chrome.
- Keep capsule families separate. App individual capsules, heartbeat status capsules, website marketing capsules, video capsules, seeded identicons, and the hero bank have different data.
- Hero bank is the only decorative exception. Use the canonical bank spec; do not hand-roll a new bank.
- Record reproducibility data. For generated assets, record seed, template, palette, dimensions, and source workflow.
- Respect reduced motion. Any pulsing, blinking, breathing, wave, or fill-rise animation needs a static reduced-motion fallback.
Choose the Right Capsule Surface
Use individual agent capsules when one capsule equals one agent in product UI, onboarding, org surfaces, or avatars. Read references/individual-status-capsules.md before implementing or changing UI behavior.
What ships with it
4 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.
- 12d ago First seen · 100 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A dd659ccb46e1
paperclip-capsules is a skill published in the GitHub repository paperclipai/paperclip (80,385 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,212 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 2026-08-30.
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