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-create-agentgit 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-create-agent)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/paperclipai/paperclip/paperclip-create-agent"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/paperclipai/paperclip/paperclip-create-agent/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-create-agent"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/paperclipai/paperclip/paperclip-create-agent.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- Socket pass
- Snyk warn
- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- medium Data Exfiltration · line 27 Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
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 | $0.00044 | $0.01860 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00022 | $0.00930 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00009 | $0.00372 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00186 |
Grade A, and why
paperclip-create-agent scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
curl -sS "$PAPERCLIP_API_URL/api/agents/me" \ How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 164 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Paperclip Create Agent Skill
Use this skill when you are asked to hire/create an agent.
Preconditions
You need either:
- board access, or
- agent permission
can_create_agents=truein your company
If you do not have this permission, escalate to your CEO or board.
Workflow
1. Confirm identity and company context
curl -sS "$PAPERCLIP_API_URL/api/agents/me" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $PAPERCLIP_API_KEY"
2. Discover adapter configuration for this Paperclip instance
curl -sS "$PAPERCLIP_API_URL/llms/agent-configuration.txt" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $PAPERCLIP_API_KEY"
# Then the specific adapter you plan to use, e.g. claude_local:
curl -sS "$PAPERCLIP_API_URL/llms/agent-configuration/claude_local.txt" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $PAPERCLIP_API_KEY"
3. Compare existing agent configurations
curl -sS "$PAPERCLIP_API_URL/api/companies/$PAPERCLIP_COMPANY_ID/agent-configurations" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $PAPERCLIP_API_KEY"
Note naming, icon, reporting-line, and adapter conventions the company already follows.
4. Choose the instruction source (required)
This is the single most important decision for hire quality. Pick exactly one path:
- Exact template — the role matches an entry in the template index. Use the matching file under
references/agents/as the starting point. - Adjacent template — no exact match, but an existing template is close (for example, a "Backend Engineer" hire adapted from
coder.md, or a "Content Designer" adapted fromuxdesigner.md). Copy the closest template and adapt deliberately: rename the role, rewrite the role charter, swap domain lenses, and remove sections that do not fit. - Generic fallback — no template is close. Use the baseline role guide to construct a new
AGENTS.mdfrom scratch, filling in each recommended section for the specific role.
Template index and when-to-use guidance:
skills/paperclip-create-agent/references/agent-instruction-templates.md
What ships with it
8 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.
- references/agent-instruction-templates.md 11 KB
- references/agents/coder.md 4.5 KB
- references/agents/qa.md 4.4 KB
- references/agents/securityengineer.md 14 KB
- references/agents/uxdesigner.md 9.3 KB
- references/api-reference.md 3.1 KB
- references/baseline-role-guide.md 8.3 KB
- references/draft-review-checklist.md 6.5 KB
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 164 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 22fd6cf94637
paperclip-create-agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository paperclipai/paperclip (80,288 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 1,860 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.
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