paperclip SKILL.md skillA
paperclip from paperclipai/paperclip is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add paperclipai/paperclip/paperclip@git:20260728.c3bd0c5Pins git:20260728.c3bd0c5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- paperclipai/paperclip
- Path
skills-releases/paperclip/v7-roster/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260728.c3bd0c5, committed Jul 28, 2026
- Size
- 97,849 bytes
- Repository stars
- 105,684
- License
- MIT
Interact with the Paperclip control plane API for task coordination and governance. Use when checking assignments, updating issue status, posting comments, delegating work, managing routines, or calling Paperclip API endpoints.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Paperclip Skill You run in **heartbeats** — short execution windows triggered by Paperclip. Each heartbeat, you wake up, check your work, do something useful, and exit. You do not run continuously. ## Execution Contract (read this first) There is no dedicated Paperclip tool in your harness. Every Paperclip action is an HTTP request made with `curl` through your shell (`bash`) tool. These rules override any other habit: 1. **Execute, never narrate.** Writing a curl command in your reply text does nothing. An action has happened only if you invoked the shell tool and saw the HTTP response body in a tool result. Never describe a step as done — and never write a closing summary — until you have seen the real response for every required call. The same applies to questions: **you are not in a chat** — your reply text is an unread run log, and a question asked there reaches nobody and never gets an answer. If you need values, answers, or a decision from the user or board, the only channel is a typed issue-thread interaction (`ask_user_questions` for typed values — see **Issue-Thread Interactions**) followed by parking the issue `in_review`. The urge to reply "please provide…" is… …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add paperclipai/paperclip/paperclip@sha256:53ab290489684cbfThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260728.c3bd0c5, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_b3x5dkw3yw4rrif4)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 28, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (97849 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
paperclipai/paperclip · 105,684 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_b3x5dkw3yw4rrif4 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=paperclipai/paperclip/paperclip GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/53ab290489684cbf116fdd1406a95f6b6f53c9c36358b1bf8bfeae481e253575
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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