paperclip: Skill for Claude Code

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paperclip-dev-workspace-run-verify-fix is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from paperclipai/paperclip. It costs 58 tokens per session (4,945 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for running and checking an isolated Paperclip development workspace. An isolated workspace is a separate project or worktree with its own service, database copy, login, and application URL.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start a managed workspace service, reseed its database, check health and login, verify cloned data and runtime visibility, and confirm the correct process owns its port.
Why use it?
It helps find and repair incomplete setup, incorrect data cloning, failed login readiness, unhealthy services, and processes running from the wrong workspace.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is paperclipai/paperclip's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on paperclip itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything paperclip configures →

About the project

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.

paperclipai/paperclip · 80,385 stars · on GitHub · paperclip.ing

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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.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/paperclipai/paperclip/master/.agents/skills/paperclip-dev-workspace-run-verify-fix/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,945 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Snyk pass 7 Sept 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 findings, 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 117
    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.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 182
    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.
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 211
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00058 $0.04945
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.02472
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00989
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00494

Measured 12d ago against content hash a3b8cb9be7a8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paperclip-dev-workspace-run-verify-fix 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 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

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.agents/skills/paperclip-dev-workspace-run-verify-fix/SKILL.md · 518 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 518 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Paperclip Dev Workspace Run / Verify / Fix

This skill is for Paperclip-specific development workspaces whose service is started through project execution workspace runtime services, typically a worktree service such as paperclip-dev.

Success means all of these are true:

  • the service was started through the normal managed runtime path, not a detached workaround
  • the worktree database is a full bootstrapped isolated clone of the primary instance database
  • /api/health returns status: ok and bootstrapStatus: ready
  • the root page returns 200 and does not show the first-admin setup gate
  • the board user can log in with their normal dev credentials
  • the app shows populated cloned data, not only a manually copied auth user
  • the main control plane shows the service as running / healthy with the expected URL
  • the served workspace app also knows about that service and shows it as running / healthy
  • the process that owns the service port really belongs to the target workspace: readlink /proc/<pid>/cwd resolves inside the target worktree, not a sibling workspace

If any item fails, keep fixing. Do not mark the issue done because one probe passed.

Hard rules

  • The master checkout /srv/paperclip/home/paperclipai/paperclip (the primary repo with the real instance .env) is never a workspace repair target. Never point a worktree runtime service at it, never git worktree add into it or under <master>/.paperclip/worktrees/, and never edit its .env while repairing a workspace. Managed workspaces run in their own folders, for example ~/.paperclip-worktrees/instances/<slug>/….
  • Never trust a running / healthy runtime row or a passing /api/health alone. The service:paperclip-dev port is pinned in service config, so a sibling workspace's process can own the port and still answer health checks. Confirm the port owner's real cwd (readlink /proc/<pid>/cwd) before and after every repair; the runtime row's recorded cwd and pid can be fabricated by port adoption.
  • Read doc/DEVELOPING.md before running Paperclip CLI, dev server, worktree, database, build, or test commands.
  • Use the Paperclip CLI and API as the source of truth for worktree and database operations. Do not use psql, raw embedded-Postgres commands, or ad hoc row copying for the normal fix path.
  • Do not manually copy only auth rows as the final fix. That proves login, but it does not prove the isolated workspace has the full bootstrapped database.
  • Prefer managed runtime start/stop routes over pnpm dev or detached shell processes when the task is about a reusable workspace service.
  • Avoid destructive git or database actions. Preserve user changes in the worktree.
  • Run the smallest verification that proves the repair. Add focused tests only when code changed.
  • Leave an issue comment with root cause, exact fix, verification, and any commit link. Set a clear final status.

Read the full file on GitHub · 518 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. 12d ago First seen · 518 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A a3b8cb9be7a8

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paperclip-dev-workspace-run-verify-fix is a skill published in the GitHub repository paperclipai/paperclip (80,385 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 4,945 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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