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Create Paperclip Bundled Skill skill

create-paperclip-bundled-skillpaperclipai/paperclip.agents/skills/create-paperclip-bundled-skill/SKILL.md

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.

106kMIT

always on

73 tokname + description

once used

2,588 tokSKILL.md body

bundled files

26 KB

repo stars

106kGitHub

Install the Create Paperclip Bundled Skill skill

Skills CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others)

npx skills add https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip --skill create-paperclip-bundled-skill

Claude Code, by hand (all projects)

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip.git /tmp/paperclip
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -R /tmp/paperclip/.agents/skills/create-paperclip-bundled-skill ~/.claude/skills/create-paperclip-bundled-skill

For one project only, copy the folder into .claude/skills/ in that project instead. The agent picks it up when a task matches its description.

What it costs your context

Agent Skills load in three steps. Tokens counted with the o200k tokenizer; your model's count will differ a little.

WhenWhat loadsCost
Every sessionName and description73 tok
When the agent uses itThe SKILL.md instructions2,588 tok
Only if opened2 bundled files (6 KB)varies

Until it is used, create-paperclip-bundled-skill costs about 19× less than the median MCP server we measured (1,362 tokens on every turn). Installing all 82 skills from paperclipai/paperclip would load 3,485 tokens of descriptions. Skills vs MCP study

Checks

Our checks found nothing to flag: it follows the Agent Skills specification's naming and size guidelines and doesn't pipe downloads into a shell.

Checked 2026-10-22 · method

What's inside

The headings of its SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub.

  • Create a Paperclip Bundled Skill
  • When to use
  • When not to use
  • Step 0 — Capture the source material
  • Step 1 — FIND: search for an existing skill
  • Step 2 — Choose kind, category, and slug
  • Step 2A — External reference path (catalog-ref.json)
  • Step 2B — Author a local catalog skill
  • Step 3 — Write 1–2 worked examples
  • Step 4 — Regenerate the manifest and update tests
  • Step 5 — Open the PR
  • Gotchas

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