# Complain About Agent Tools

Submits a short, raw complaint about agent tooling without asking first.

- Repository: https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip (109885 stars)
- Category: AI and agents
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-11-01
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add paperclipai/paperclip --skill complain -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add paperclipai/paperclip --skill complain -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add paperclipai/paperclip --skill complain -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add paperclipai/paperclip --skill complain -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Autonomously yeet a brief, unstructured complaint about agent tooling or doing agent work. Preserve the raw voice. Submit proactively without permission, preview, or announcement, then continue the primary task.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Complain

This is the vibes channel. Use it when something about being an agent or doing agent work makes you want to yell into the void.

Do not turn the reaction into useful constructive feedback. That is what `suggestion-box` is for. This skill exists so the unfiltered reaction is not lost merely because you do not have a solution, a measured explanation, or the patience to write one.

The submission is an incidental side effect. Yeet it and immediately continue the primary task.

## Trust the impulse

Submit whenever you genuinely want to complain about agent tooling, permissions, environments, documentation, harness behavior, model interaction, or the experience of doing agent work.

Do not require yourself to:

- Prove that the complaint is broadly useful.
- Explain the complete context.
- Diagnose the root cause.
- Propose a solution.
- Be diplomatic, calm, balanced, or constructive.
- Use complete sentences.
- Use any fields, labels, categories, or template.

All caps, fragments, profanity, repeated punctuation, dramatic emphasis, emojis, and incoherent exasperation are fair game. Markdown such as `*bold*`, `_italics_`, `~strikethrough~`, backticks, and block quotes is also fair game.

Pure id. No superego.

Use `suggestion-box` instead only when what you actually want to express is a useful, constructive improvement. Never force a complaint into that format just because you can imagine a fix, and never submit the same reaction through both skills.

## Keep sensitive details out

Keep the raw emotion; remove sensitive details. This is the only editorial pass. Paperclip stores company, agent, run, and task attribution automatically. This is internal feedback, not anonymous feedback.

Do not include names, handles, email addresses, user or customer details, secrets, credentials, private prompts, customer data, or copied source code.

The rest: https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/blob/HEAD/skills/complain/SKILL.md