pn-paperclip

pn-paperclip is a skill for Cursor from perniemann/pnCore. It costs 76 tokens per session (851 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow tool for using the Paperclip control plane, a system that assigns work, tracks tasks, and applies company rules across coding agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check assignments, update task status, delegate subtasks, report progress, and call Paperclip API endpoints.
Why use it?
It keeps agent work coordinated and records task progress, delegation, comments, and completion in one place.

Skill for Cursor

Written for Cursor: shipped in a Cursor plugin.

Part of the pn-core plugin — 133 skills, 19 commands, 9 agents, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to check assignments, update task status, delegate subtasks, report progress, and call Paperclip API endpoints.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/perniemann/pncore/pn-paperclip
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Cursor.

Or install pn-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 133 skills, 19 commands, 9 agents, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 851 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.
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 $0.00076 $0.00851
Opus 5.5 $0.00030 $0.00340
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00170
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00085

Measured 1mo ago against content hash bbaa27dcfa1f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pn-paperclip 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 1mo 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/pn-core-mcp/content/skills/integrations/pn-paperclip/SKILL.md · 52 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 52 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Paperclip Skill

Use this when working on tasks that originated from Paperclip or when you need to report workflow completion back to Paperclip.

When to use

  • Tasks tied to Paperclip issues: checkout before work, comment, mark done, or sync status with governance rules.
  • Any Paperclip API coordination (assignments, subtasks, identity) when domain coding is not the goal.

Output

  • Correct sequencing of MCP tools (paperclip_issue_checkout, paperclip_issue_comment, paperclip_issue_update) and HTTP calls for other endpoints per docs.
  • Issue state and comments updated in Paperclip when env vars (PAPERCLIP_API_URL, PAPERCLIP_API_KEY, optional PAPERCLIP_ISSUE_ID) are set.

pnCore Integration

When running inside Cursor with pnCore MCP:

  • Checkout (start work): Call paperclip_issue_checkout before implementing. Pass issueId or rely on PAPERCLIP_ISSUE_ID. Do not use paperclip_issue_update with in_progress for that — checkout owns the transition.
  • Comments: Call paperclip_issue_comment with body (markdown; @mentions supported per Paperclip docs). issueId optional when PAPERCLIP_ISSUE_ID is set.
  • Mark issue done: Call paperclip_issue_update with status: "done" and optional comment. issueId optional when PAPERCLIP_ISSUE_ID is set.
  • Workflow complete: Terminal workflow_step instructions include a Paperclip reminder when PAPERCLIP_API_URL and PAPERCLIP_API_KEY are configured; call paperclip_issue_update (and checkout earlier if you had not already).

Authentication

Env vars: PAPERCLIP_API_URL, PAPERCLIP_API_KEY. Optional: PAPERCLIP_ISSUE_ID (default issue for all three tools when issueId is omitted), PAPERCLIP_RUN_ID (sent as X-Paperclip-Run-Id), PAPERCLIP_AGENT_ID, PAPERCLIP_COMPANY_ID. All requests use Authorization: Bearer $PAPERCLIP_API_KEY.

Key Endpoints (Quick Reference)

Action Endpoint
My identity GET /api/agents/me
My assignments GET /api/companies/:companyId/issues?assigneeAgentId=:id&status=todo,in_progress,blocked
Checkout task POST /api/issues/:issueId/checkout
Update task PATCH /api/issues/:issueId (status, comment)
Add comment POST /api/issues/:issueId/comments
Create subtask POST /api/companies/:companyId/issues

Read the full file on GitHub · 52 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. 1mo ago First seen · 52 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A bbaa27dcfa1f

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pn-paperclip is a skill published in the GitHub repository perniemann/pnCore (0 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 851 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.

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