paperclip-distill

paperclip-distill is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from paperclipai/paperclip. It costs 54 tokens per session (2,585 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for turning Paperclip activity into useful LLM Wiki knowledge. Paperclip is a system for managing AI-agent company work, and the workflow summarizes projects, decisions, risks, and history in linked wiki pages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for Paperclip activity windows, historical backfills, or manual distillation requests; it is not for ordinary wiki questions or source ingestion.
Why use it?
It replaces a difficult-to-read stream of tasks, comments, and documents with durable summaries that explain the current state.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it for Paperclip activity windows, historical backfills, or manual distillation requests; it is not for ordinary wiki questions or source ingestion.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/paperclipai/paperclip/paperclip-distill
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 · 80,500 stars · on GitHub · paperclip.ing

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.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,585 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Snyk warn 7 Sept 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00054 $0.02585
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.01293
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00517
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00259

Measured 12d ago against content hash ce0671362eab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paperclip-distill 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.

packages/plugins/plugin-llm-wiki/skills/paperclip-distill/SKILL.md · 126 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 126 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Paperclip Distill

Distill Paperclip project, issue, comment, and document activity into durable wiki pages. The success criterion is wiki-insightful, not procedural: a reader who has never seen Paperclip should learn what the project is, what was decided, what is at risk, and what the current state is — without scanning a list of ## [YYYY-MM-DD] headers.

When this skill is needed

  • Cursor-window distillation: the routine fed you a bounded source bundle of recent Paperclip activity for one project or root issue.
  • Backfill: the user asked to seed the wiki with the historical activity of a project or root issue. Source window may be wide.
  • Manual distill-paperclip-now request from the UI.

If the operation issue is operationType: "ingest" (raw file) or operationType: "query", this is the wrong skill — use wiki-ingest or wiki-query.

Destination space

In Phase 1, every Paperclip distill, backfill, and cursor-window operation writes into the default wiki space. The operation issue should always carry spaceSlug: "default". If an operation issue passes any other slug, stop and surface the mismatch in a comment — do not write Paperclip-derived pages into a non-default space.

This rule is destination-only. The Paperclip source scope (which projects, root issues, comments, documents are read) is set elsewhere in the operation issue and is independent of the destination.

Inputs

  • A Paperclip source bundle (issue list, comment refs, document refs, source hash, cursor window).
  • An existing or planned wiki/projects/<slug>/standup.md page path.
  • An existing or planned wiki/projects/<slug>/index.md page path.
  • The operation issue's target wikiId, spaceSlug, space root, and the target space's AGENTS.md for page conventions.
  • The current wiki/projects/<slug>/standup.md, wiki/projects/<slug>/index.md, decisions.md, and history.md if they already exist (so you write a patch, not a rewrite).

Paperclip Asset Gate

Do not treat Paperclip assets/attachments or issue work products as source text for this skill.

Read the full file on GitHub · 126 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 · 126 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A ce0671362eab

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paperclip-distill is a skill published in the GitHub repository paperclipai/paperclip (80,500 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 2,585 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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