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pr-gardening is a skill for Claude Code from paperclipai/paperclip. It costs 56 tokens per session (2,977 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A maintenance workflow for finding pull requests opened by this Paperclip instance and checking whether they are ready to merge. It can help non-ready requests return to a passing state, but never merges them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discover recent Paperclip-authored pull requests, report their purpose and readiness, and run the preparation workflow on requests that need more work.
Why use it?
It filters out community and dependency pull requests and uses read-only GitHub checks, so automated maintenance stays within a defined scope. It also identifies what is blocking each eligible request.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is paperclipai/paperclip's own configuration. It tells Claude Code 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 →

not rated 80krepo +364 today A scan Snyk: passSkillSpector: warn 56 tokens original MIT
View source ↗ paperclipai/paperclip paperclip.ing
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

Reuse

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/pr-gardening/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,977 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: 1 finding, up to high

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 →

  • high Prompt Injection · line 97
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
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 $0.00056 $0.02977
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01489
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00595
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00298

Measured 11d ago against content hash 773da1395a1f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pr-gardening 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 5 executable files (scripts/check-readiness.mjs, scripts/find-candidates.mjs, scripts/lib.mjs, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

allowed-tools: Bash(node:*) Bash(gh:*) Bash(curl:*)
.agents/skills/pr-gardening/SKILL.md · 181 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 181 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PR Gardening

Actively garden the pull requests this Paperclip instance opened that are referenced by Paperclip issues active in a recent window (default 14 days). Candidate discovery and readiness checking are scripts, not LLM analysis. GitHub access is read-only throughout this workflow.

Scope — Our PRs Only

By default the workflow gardens only pull requests authored by this instance's GitHub identity (the gh authenticated login, e.g. cryppadotta). Community contributions and dependabot PRs are excluded mechanically by author login in Stage A and land in droppedCommunityPullRequests; never re-add them by hand, widen the scope only when the caller explicitly passes --authors or --include-community.

Hard Guardrails

  • Never merge, approve, or close a pull request.
  • Never instruct another person or agent to merge, approve, or close a pull request.
  • Never garden, comment on, or run /prepare-paperclip-pr against a community PR. Only PRs from the Stage A author allowlist are actionable.
  • Never use mutating gh commands or mutating GitHub API requests. The scripts only use gh pr view and read-only gh api GET requests.
  • Draft pull requests are report-only. Do not post gardening comments for drafts.
  • Comment only on existing originating issues. Never create a gardening issue per pull request.
  • --dry-run suppresses all Paperclip mutations, including gardening comments, prepare tasks, and inbox archives. Discovery and GitHub inspection remain read-only in every mode.

Inputs

  • --days <N>: activity window, default 14. Applies to both mentioning-issue activity and the PR's own updatedAt; open PRs with no activity inside the window are dropped as stale.
  • --authors <logins>: comma-separated GitHub logins whose PRs are in scope; default is the gh authenticated user.
  • --include-community: disable the author filter entirely. Only on explicit caller request.
  • --repo <owner/repo>: GitHub repository, default detected by gh repo view.
  • --dry-run: discover, verify, and report without posting comments, creating prepare tasks, or archiving inbox entries.
  • --archive-inbox: after GitHub confirms a candidate PR is merged at its current head, archive the originating issue from the responsible user's inbox in Stage D.
  • --cooldown-hours <N>: repeat-gardening cooldown, default 48.
  • --max-rounds <N>: maximum gardening rounds per PR, default 3.

Read the full file on GitHub · 181 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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.

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. 11d ago First seen · 181 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 773da1395a1f

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pr-gardening is a skill published in the GitHub repository paperclipai/paperclip (80,385 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 2,977 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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