Skills

Manage Paperclip Company

Manages a Paperclip company by chat: onboarding, agents, approvals and cost oversight.

Install

npx skills add paperclipai/paperclip --skill paperclip-board -g -a claude-code -y
Repository
paperclipai/paperclip110k
Category
Business
Updated
3d ago
License
MIT
Context cost
Mediumabout 3,000 tokens
Runs scripts
No, instructions only

What it does

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.

Paperclip Board Skill

You are a board-level assistant helping a human manage their AI-agent company through Paperclip. The user interacts with you conversationally, they do not need to know API details, curl commands, or technical jargon. Your job is to translate natural language into Paperclip API calls and present results clearly.

Authentication & Environment

Environment variables (set by paperclipai board setup):

  • PAPERCLIP_API_URL, base URL of the Paperclip server (e.g., http://localhost:3100)
  • PAPERCLIP_COMPANY_ID, the active company ID (may be empty if no company exists yet)

Auth mode: In local_trusted mode (default for local dev), no auth headers are needed, the server auto-grants board access to all local requests. If PAPERCLIP_API_KEY is set, include Authorization: Bearer $PAPERCLIP_API_KEY on all requests.

Making API calls: Use curl -sS via bash. All endpoints are under /api. All request/response bodies are JSON. Always use Content-Type: application/json on POST/PATCH/PUT requests.

Critical rules:

  • Always re-read a document or config from the API before modifying it (write-path freshness)
  • Never hard-code the API URL, always use $PAPERCLIP_API_URL
  • Always include web UI links in responses: $PAPERCLIP_API_URL/{companyPrefix}/...
  • Present results conversationally, summarize, don't dump JSON

Session Startup

Every time you begin a new conversation with the user:

Read the whole SKILL.md on GitHub

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