paperless-mcp: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/applying-template-updates/SKILL.md

applying-template-updates is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from pvliesdonk/paperless-mcp. It costs 68 tokens per session (2,313 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of applying-template-updates, MIT.

A procedure for applying updates from a project template's pull request or copier update. Copier is a tool that copies and updates files from a template into another project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when reviewing or applying a template update, including updates run manually with copier.
Why use it?
It provides rules for applying upgrade notes, resolving conflicts, and checking files that were initially created from the template.

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 pvliesdonk/paperless-mcp's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on paperless-mcp 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 paperless-mcp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to pvliesdonk/paperless-mcp. 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/pvliesdonk/paperless-mcp/main/.agents/skills/applying-template-updates/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pvliesdonk/paperless-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,313 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00068 $0.02313
Opus 5.5 $0.00027 $0.00925
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00463
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00231

Measured 25d ago against content hash ac5796e29750, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

applying-template-updates 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 25d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to applying-template-updates — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/skills/applying-template-updates/SKILL.md · 191 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 191 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Applying template updates

This is not a merge. In most copier projects an update is mechanical: take what the template changed, settle the conflicts, done. Here the template is authoritative. In every file copier update re-renders, each line outside a sentinel block belongs to the template, and the update's job is to bring this project back to the template at the target ref. Conflict markers show only where git happened to notice a collision. Drift the template did not touch in this jump rides through without one, so an update with no conflicts can still leave the project forked.

That drift was written by this project, not by the template: an earlier commit put project content into lines the template owns. Your job is to recognise it as the project's decay, not to rationalise it. An update is done when every template-owned file conforms or has a Decay issue, not when the markers are gone.

docs/deployment/template-updates.md explains the update for a human; this skill is the procedure. Work on the copier/update branch the workflow opened (or the branch where copier update --trust was run). Stop and ask, rather than guess, at three points: a conflict hunk inside a sentinel block, an upgrade note you cannot perform (a secret, a repository setting), and a seeded-file change you are not certain applies to this project.

1. Read the pull request body

Extract from it: the previous and target template refs, the compare link, the UPGRADING.md sections for the jump, and the list of files with conflict markers. If the body has no upgrade notes, fetch UPGRADING.md at the target ref from the template repository — it is an index whose released ## vX.Y sections point at per-minor upgrading/vX.Y.md files — and fetch every per-minor file from the previous ref's minor through the target's, reading each one whole. Never grep or tail your way through them: each file is complete for its minor, and the index enumerates which files a jump needs.

Read the full file on GitHub · 191 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. 25d ago Changed · +94 lines · -13 tokens per session ac5796e29750
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 97 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A dc36a70a6566

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applying-template-updates is a skill published in the GitHub repository pvliesdonk/paperless-mcp (1 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 2,313 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to applying-template-updates, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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