# Distill Activity into Wiki

Turns Paperclip activity into standups, project pages and decisions for the wiki.

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

## Install

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

## Description

Use when an operation issue is a Paperclip cursor-window, distill, or backfill. Turn source-bundled Paperclip activity into wiki-insightful project standups, durable project pages, decisions, and history without asset dereferencing.

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

# Paperclip Distill

Distill Paperclip project, issue, comment, and document activity into durable wiki pages. The success criterion is **wiki-insightful, not procedural**: a reader who has never seen Paperclip should learn what the project is, what was decided, what is at risk, and what the current state is, without scanning a list of `## [YYYY-MM-DD]` headers.

## When this skill is needed

- Cursor-window distillation: the routine fed you a bounded source bundle of recent Paperclip activity for one project or root issue.
- Backfill: the user asked to seed the wiki with the historical activity of a project or root issue. Source window may be wide.
- Manual `distill-paperclip-now` request from the UI.

If the operation issue is `operationType: "ingest"` (raw file) or `operationType: "query"`, this is the wrong skill, use `wiki-ingest` or `wiki-query`.

## Destination space

In Phase 1, every Paperclip distill, backfill, and cursor-window operation writes into the
default wiki space. The operation issue should always carry `spaceSlug: "default"`. If an
operation issue passes any other slug, stop and surface the mismatch in a comment, do not
write Paperclip-derived pages into a non-default space.

This rule is destination-only. The Paperclip source scope (which projects, root issues,
comments, documents are read) is set elsewhere in the operation issue and is independent of
the destination.

## Inputs

- A Paperclip source bundle (issue list, comment refs, document refs, source hash, cursor window).
- An existing or planned `wiki/projects/<slug>/standup.md` page path.
- An existing or planned `wiki/projects/<slug>/index.md` page path.
- The operation issue's target `wikiId`, `spaceSlug`, space root, and the target space's `AGENTS.md` for page conventions.
- The current `wiki/projects/<slug>/standup.md`, `wiki/projects/<slug>/index.md`, `decisions.md`, and `history.md` if they already exist (so you write a *patch*, not a rewrite).

## Paperclip Asset Gate

The rest: https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/blob/HEAD/packages/plugins/plugin-llm-wiki/skills/paperclip-distill/SKILL.md