paperclip

Use for Paperclip-managed tasks and heartbeats: reading task context, delivering task documents or files, updating completion or blockers, coordinating or delegating work, and following company governance. Includes control plane API operations for assignments, comments, approvals, and routines.

Create new agents in Paperclip with governance-aware hiring. Use when you need to inspect adapter configuration options, compare existing agent configs, draft a new agent prompt/config, and submit a hire request.

Create and develop external Paperclip plugins with the CLI-first workflow. Use when scaffolding a plugin, iterating on a local plugin, installing it into Paperclip, or updating plugin authoring docs.

Use a file-based PARA memory system to store, retrieve, and organize durable knowledge across sessions. Trigger on saving facts, daily notes, entity records, weekly synthesis, recall, tacit user patterns, or plan memory.

Generate the stable Paperclip release changelog at releases/vYYYY.MDD.P.md by reading commits, changesets, and merged PR context since the last stable tag.

Create agent company packages that conform to agentcompanies/v1. Use when asked to create a company, scaffold an agent team, hire agents, or turn a repo/skills collection into a company package.

Decide whether Paperclip work needs delegation, and connect justified tasks with owners and real dependencies. Use when turning an authorized plan into work.

Compatibility entry point for failed, stalled, looping, or over-recovered Paperclip work. Use fix-failed-paperclip-run for the full diagnosis, regression, repair, real verification, and green-PR workflow; honor an explicitly requested diagnosis-only scope.

Handle confidential GitHub Security Advisory response for Paperclip. Use when coordinating advisory triage, private-fork fixes, CVE/publication steps, and immediate security releases.

Iterate on a GitHub PR until latest-head checks are green or a precise blocker is named. Use when a PR still has failing or pending checks after review fixes, including after greploop.

Manage a Paperclip company as a board member via chat. Use when the user wants onboarding, company or agent management, approvals, task monitoring, cost oversight, or work product review in the Paperclip control plane.

Write the Discord announcement for a stable Paperclip release from the release changelog. Use when a release issue needs a copy-pasteable dotta-voice Discord post or refreshed discordannouncement document.

Run, verify, reseed, and repair Paperclip isolated dev workspace services. Use when asked to start or fix a managed project/worktree service and prove health, login readiness, cloned data, runtime visibility, and correct port ownership.

Add a new Paperclip issue-thread interaction kind end-to-end. Use when repo work introduces or extends interaction cards like requestconfirmation, checkbox confirmations, askuserquestions, or suggesttasks.

Publish static HTML pages and asset folders to the Paperclip S3/CloudFront page host. Use when asked to deploy, host, or share a persistent page, viewer, prototype, report, or static site without here.now.

Develop and operate a local Paperclip instance — start and stop servers, pull updates from master, run builds and tests, manage worktrees, back up databases, and diagnose problems. Use whenever you need to work on the Paperclip codebase itself or keep a running instance healthy.

Prepare a Paperclip branch for PR with commits, template body, and checks.

Discover the pull requests this Paperclip instance opened (never community contributions), report what each is for and how confident we are that it is merge-ready, and automatically drive the non-ready ones back to green with /prepare-paperclip-pr — without ever merging.

Turn an idea, tweet, or task into a skill in the Paperclip skills catalog (packages/skills-catalog). Use when asked to FIND or MAKE a skill and publish it as a bundled/optional catalog skill: research prior art, reference or author it, add examples, regenerate the manifest, open a PR.

Scan a Paperclip user's Mine inbox, classify reversible archive candidates, request checkbox confirmation, and archive only accepted selections. Use when asked to garden, clean up, prune, or tidy a Paperclip inbox without changing issues, branches, or workspaces.

Use the assigned Slack bot from Slack conversations, Paperclip tasks, and routines to read shared discussions and collaborate.

Choose, inspect, validate, and report Paperclip Runner or Product E2E evaluations while preserving evidence, provenance, cost, and failure classification.

Add or extend a Paperclip full-stack runner E2E workflow, fixture, matcher, or report evidence path for local or Daytona execution.