paperclip-create-plugin

A workflow for creating Paperclip plugins as separate packages outside the main Paperclip codebase. It covers scaffolding, local development, installation, and authoring documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a plugin, install it from a local path, iterate on its code, and update plugin development docs.
Why use it?
It keeps plugin work separate from Paperclip core and gives developers a defined way to test plugins against a local Paperclip instance.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/paperclipai/paperclip/paperclip-create-plugin
Any agent
npx skills add paperclipai/paperclip --skill paperclip-create-plugin
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,530 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00045 $0.01530
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00765
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00306
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00153

Measured yesterday against content hash 6318d09f9d3a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paperclip-create-plugin 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 yesterday.

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.

.agents/skills/paperclip-create-plugin/SKILL.md · 153 lines

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 and develop a Paperclip plugin

Use this skill when the task is to create, scaffold, or iterate on a Paperclip plugin against a local Paperclip instance.

1. Default: build the plugin OUTSIDE Paperclip core

Plugins are their own packages. Unless the task explicitly asks for a bundled in-repo example, do not add plugin source under packages/plugins/ in this repo.

  • Scaffold the plugin into a directory outside the Paperclip checkout (e.g. ~/dev/paperclip-plugins/<name>).
  • Install it into the running Paperclip instance by local absolute path.
  • Edit code in the external package; let Paperclip pick up rebuilt output.

Only edit Paperclip core itself when the user asks to surface a plugin as a bundled example (server/src/routes/plugins.ts, in-repo example lists, docs).

2. Ground rules

Reference docs when you need detail:

  1. doc/plugins/PLUGIN_AUTHORING_GUIDE.md
  2. packages/plugins/sdk/README.md
  3. doc/plugins/PLUGIN_SPEC.md — future-looking context only

Current runtime assumptions:

  • plugin workers are trusted code
  • plugin UI is trusted same-origin host code
  • worker APIs are capability-gated
  • plugin UI is not sandboxed by manifest capabilities
  • no host-provided shared plugin UI component kit yet
  • ctx.assets is not supported in the current runtime

3. CLI-first scaffold workflow

Use paperclipai plugin init. Do not invoke the scaffold package node entrypoint by hand unless the CLI command is unavailable in the environment.

paperclipai plugin init @acme/my-plugin --output ~/dev/paperclip-plugins

Useful flags (all optional):

  • --output <dir> — parent directory; the command creates <dir>/<unscoped-name>/. Defaults to the current directory.
  • --template <default|connector|workspace|environment> — starter template.
  • --category <connector|workspace|automation|ui|environment> — manifest category.
  • --display-name <name>, --description <text>, --author <name> — manifest metadata.
  • --sdk-path <path> — snapshot the local SDK from a Paperclip checkout into .paperclip-sdk/ (useful when developing against an unreleased SDK).

Read the full file on GitHub · 153 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. yesterday First seen · 153 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 6318d09f9d3a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

paperclip-create-plugin is a skill published in the GitHub repository paperclipai/paperclip (79,688 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 1,530 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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