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Fix Failed Paperclip Run skill

fix-failed-paperclip-runpaperclipai/paperclip.agents/skills/fix-failed-paperclip-run/SKILL.md

Diagnose and fix failed, stuck, slow, or incorrectly blocked Paperclip tasks and runs. Use with a task/run URL or failure report to trace the root cause, prove a regression red then green, check second-order effects, verify the real workflow, and deliver a PR with passing checks.

106kMIT

always on

65 tokname + description

once used

2,447 tokSKILL.md body

bundled files

18 KB

repo stars

106kGitHub

Install the Fix Failed Paperclip Run skill

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

npx skills add https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip --skill fix-failed-paperclip-run

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/fix-failed-paperclip-run ~/.claude/skills/fix-failed-paperclip-run

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 description65 tok
When the agent uses itThe SKILL.md instructions2,447 tok
Only if opened1 bundled files (8 KB)varies

Until it is used, fix-failed-paperclip-run costs about 21× 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.

  • Fix Failed Paperclip Run
  • 1. Establish the incident and the finish line
  • 2. Find the first causal failure
  • 3. Prove the bug before changing production code
  • 4. Repair the cause and prove the safety assumptions
  • 5. Verify the real workflow at the fixed revision
  • 6. Deliver the PR and close the incident to the authorized endpoint

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